Re: I tripple E
True. Almost all of them were expensive at the time. I remember dreaming of winning the football pools so I could buy one! This is late 70s/early 80s, before prices started to come down.
My dream machine of the period was the Atari 800, and that came in at around £1,000 (so £3,000 equivalent today) at the time. Plus over half again for printers and disk drives, etc. I had to make do with a second hand Atari 400 until I started work, then I bought the 800XL when prices started to fall. They were still one hell of a luxury purchase even so.
I used to have a PET, which I got for nothing in the mid-80s from Uni as they were throwing them out and upgrading to something else. I wish I'd kept it, but it got rusty being stored in the garage so it was slung out.
Great times to have lived through, though.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
