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keeran | 3 years ago

That'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).

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Marazan|3 years ago

The 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|3 years ago

The 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