I suppose rare and common are going to be subjective, but I don't think they were rare. There was a lot of in the yard tape swapping going on and it was probabl

I suppose rare and common are going to be subjective, but I don't think they were rare. There was a lot of in the yard tape swapping going on and it was probably only slightly rarer then consoles are now in schools. In that if you had an interest in games or computers you could get your hands on them. In the late 80s my school had two or three Apple Macintosh 128Ks and about ten Apple IIe. This was a disadvantaged school but I doubt we were special. This was a donation of used computers I believe, although my memory is fuzzy on that. My family was working class not much money but we had a 386 around '89 and then a 486 before I went to college in '92. Someone mentioned that they retailed for 10k, which would not have been possible with my families circumstance.