27 Jun
2012
27 Jun
'12
9:26 a.m.
On 27 June 2012 15:52, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
Also, I mean, kids are picking this thing up for real and using it.
How can you not love this? ?It's what the Apple II was for me when
I was 6.
For me when I was 12, the Apple II was about 6 months of my parent's
income and there was no way I was /ever/ going to get one. They spent
the money on sending me to school instead.
By the time I was 14 or so, I got a Spectrum for ?80 ($125) - probably
meant a month's spare money for my folks, but doable.
I have Googled but I can't find a price for a new Apple II in the UK,
but assuming the old swap-the-dollar-for-a-pound-sign trick, a used
Spectrum was one-tenth of the price of a new Apple II 2-3 years
earlier.
I knew other kids who owned Spectrums, C64s, Dragons, Orics and maybe
BBC Micros if their parents were both rich and boring. I never knew
anyone who owned an Apple - they were just /way/ too expensive.
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