lou_dias wrote:
I believe the C64 was $1000 at launch. A few years later, my family picked it up for $400. That was 1984. Looking at those numbers, the PS3 is a steal, but not so "homebrew friendly".
$1000 was a bomb in '82, I quote the - ever reliable

- wikipedia:
Wikipedia wrote:
Introduced by Commodore Business Machines in August 1982 at a price of US$595,
Hell the A500 was only about £500 in '87, and that was a hell of a lot more computer for the money than a C64.