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> the dorky and unpopular AKA the kids whose parents didn't have a lot of money.
by 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...