Most people probably used the record feature on their cassette players and the cost of simply including it in every device may well have been lower than the cos

Most people probably used the record feature on their cassette players and the cost of simply including it in every device may well have been lower than the cost of two production lines. Incidentally, for five years or so the Amiga was a great choice and any PC bought instead of an Amiga would have been horribly obsolete by the time the Amiga ecosystem collapsed. Your parents sound cool ;-)