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> At £69.95, it was cheap enough to be an impulse buy for most people Not to detract from the rest of what you say, but I think you might have a skewed idea ab
by Joeboy 15y ago
> At £69.95, it was cheap enough to be an impulse buy for most people
Not to detract from the rest of what you say, but I think you might have a skewed idea about how much spare cash "most people" had in 1981.
- jdietrich 15y agoWe could argue endlessly over that, so I won't. The point stands that relative to other micros, Sinclairs were really cheap. The BBC model B launched at £335 but was sold at £399. The 'cheap' Acorn Electron launched in 1983 at £199, by which time you could get a ZX81 for under £40 or a 16k spectrum for £99.
- chrisjsmith 15y agoAnd they sucked. Which is why we did all our playing at school on the BBC's :)