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The prices weren't close in NZ, 11yr me paid NZ$525 for my spectrum, and C64s were well over NZ$800 about the same time - that was an unimaginable extra year or
by antod 5y ago
The prices weren't close in NZ, 11yr me paid NZ$525 for my spectrum, and C64s were well over NZ$800 about the same time - that was an unimaginable extra year or more of delivering newspapers on top of the two I'd already spent. I think the gap closed a lot later on.
- TMWNN 5y agoDid Spectrum have much market share in New Zealand? I don't believe it did in Australia. (Same with BBC Micro; its power supply fails in Australian temperatures.)
- antod 5y agoI think it was pretty popular (totally guessing), probably 2nd place behind the C64 in terms of those home/game oriented 8bit machines. There were about the same amount of spectrum vs C64 games in the shops. The weird thing was that nobody I knew had the same computer - in my circle of friends and family, there was a ZX81, my Spectrum, a Vic20, a C64, an Apple II, a TRS-80, a BBC Micro, and a friends family even had a Dick Smith computer (after some searching it might've been a VZ-300). Only the ZX81 and the Spectrum got any programming done on them though :(