Jeff Thomas wrote:
Anders Carlsson wrote:Heh, a little exaggerating surely. By the way, which computer or game console has seen the largest drop in list price? IIRC, the TI-99/4 was released at $1150 in 1979, and the improved TI-99/4A was down at $99 in 1983ish when it finally was dropped.That's because of the great computer/video market crash of 1983, when alot of companies went under!
Actually, the crash was the following year, 1984.TI pulled the 99/4a because they were losing huge wads of cash on the machine, selling it far below it's value, hoping to make it all back on the PE BOX and the various things to stuff into it. Then, the straw that broke the camel's back: The Coleco ADAM was announced in the spring of 1983. $600 for a 64K (80K with video RAM - compare the 99/4a which ONLY had the 16K of video RAM!), a fast reliable random access tape system, and a letter quality daisy wheel printer with included word processing software. TI couldn't compete. Coleco hoped that no one could. But Coleco released it before the engineers were finished making the thing work reliably. Death to two systems.
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