29 Sep
2021
29 Sep
'21
8:47 a.m.
I had a TI 99/4 when I was a kid. It was my first computer (although I
used my friend's Apple ][ much more).
All I can say is, what a piece of garbage. It was horrible in every way,
and it overheated if you left it on too long. SLOWEST BASIC EVER!
On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 16:37, Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 22:49, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." -- Jonathan Swift
I think that it is truly tragic about the price gouging.
Strongly agreed.
The TI-99/4A wasn't a great computer, with foolish design compromises,
but it was driven out of the market by unfair pricing.
The Amiga was a superior machine in almost every way to the Atari ST,
and should have been a bit more expensive -- I'm sure it was to
produce. But no, another price war.
And so on.
A number of people have commented that computers
were sold as if the
exchange rate was 1:1!
Yup. But that was probably me. A computer that sold for $1000
would be sold in UK for 1000 GBP! (the equivalent
of $3000)
Yup. A particular habit of Apple, to be fair, but not unique to them.
Also, the US cost of living is substantially cheaper -- e.g. gasoline.
Today the average US price is ?0.80 per litre.
EU average is about c?1.40 per litre.
Source:
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/USA/gasoline_prices/
https://www.tolls.eu/fuel-prices
How much did the TRS80 sell for in UK?
Which model?
They were pretty rare here -- I don't think I ever saw a single one
anywhere outside Tandy store display units.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5791/was-the-trs-80-mode…
Model I, 4K Level I: ?385.25
Model I, 16K Level II: ?546.25
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