On 30 June 2014 09:43, John Many Jars <john at yoyodyne-propulsion.net> wrote:
Perhaps that people played with it for a few weeks, and dumped it in
their closet? (;
That is what I took it to mean, yes.
Those things
were *dumped* on the market, massively below cost. I
remember you could get one
for about $150.
They ended up less than that. $50 according to:
http://www.pc-history.org/texas.htm
Yep. That is how I got to use one; my school bought a room full of
them, cheap. Plus little black & white TV sets and cassette recorders.
But not the Advanced BASIC cartridge, which would have made them useful.
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