Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[Don Judy <hsaller@epix.net>]

william strutts wrote:
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> "Jason" <tmr@c64.org> wrote in message
> GyMyO1BEQGV7EwfK@cosine.demon.co.uk">news:GyMyO1BEQGV7EwfK@cosine.demon.co.uk...
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> > That's not really the case outside the US, the C64 was one of the more
> > expensive options for a fair few countries but still held it's own in
> > sales.  The only time the C64 was around the ninety nine pound mark
> > (technology tends to get priced at a direct $1 to one pound ratio) was
> > the Terminator 2 pack, the last produced and it wasn't supplied with a
> > datasette.
> 
> Really.  They were giving them away at near cost in the US.
> 

$89 to $139 in the early 1990's. Maybe you had an apartment
in the same building as Protecto. Liquidators can change 
perspective on price. I never saw a giveaway with purchase
of a large appliance, but that's usually some sales manager's
decision in the retail environment. Sometimes space is worth
more than stock.

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