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
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Introduced by Commodore Business Machines in August 1982 at a price of US$595,
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I upgraded from my VIC-20 to the C64 soon after it became available and I'm sure I paid £200 for it. The cassette drive was another £50, but I already had one from the VIC-20 that I could use. Later the 5.25" floppy and the MPS-801 printers were going for £200 each, but Toys-R-Us had a sale one Xmas where they boxed them both together for £200! Bargain!
Still, my original A2000 cost me nearly £2000 with the 1081 monitor and extra floppy.
