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As a kid growing up in the 80, the spectrum were for the dorky and unpopular and the c64 was the fancy option with the coolest games and demos (this is all of c
by Saint_Genet 4y ago
As a kid growing up in the 80, the spectrum were for the dorky and unpopular and the c64 was the fancy option with the coolest games and demos (this is all of course within the microcosm of the already nerdy)
- Joeboy 4y ago> the dorky and unpopular AKA the kids whose parents didn't have a lot of money.
- Saint_Genet 4y agoYes, that’s quite frankly a big part of what made kids unpopular when I was a kid. Don’t know what it’s like these days but I suspect it hasn’t changed that much
- keeran 4y agoThat's weird.. I don't recall feeling like it was a money thing that I had a Spectrum, only that my parents had made the 'wrong' call on a 50/50 decision (though I will forever be grateful for that early exposure to programming!) Trying to search for local prices back then is tricky, but they look to have been in the same ballpark (£180-200).
- Marazan 4y agoThe spectrum was way cheaper than a C64. The speccy had a launch price of £125 (£175 for the 48k version), the C64 launched at £399 in the UK.
- Saint_Genet 4y agoThe c64 peripherals we’re way more expensive too. Commodore had an official cassette player as well as a floppy disk drive that weren’t cheap. Though I suspect I in the long run probably spent more money on worn out joysticks
- Joeboy 4y agoThis 1983 ad has the 48k Speccy at £129.95[0] and the C64 at £345[1]. Admittedly I think the C64 came down in price not too long after. [0] https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-08/page/n29/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-08/p... [1] https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-08/page/n25/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-08/p...