That's weird.. I don't recall feeling like it was a money thing that I had a Spectrum, only that my parents had made the 'wrong' call on a 50/50 decision (though I will forever be grateful for that early exposure to programming!)
Trying to search for local prices back then is tricky, but they look to have been in the same ballpark (£180-200).
The c64 peripherals we’re way more expensive too. Commodore had an official cassette player as well as a floppy disk drive that weren’t cheap. Though I suspect I in the long run probably spent more money on worn out joysticks
Trying to search for local prices back then is tricky, but they look to have been in the same ballpark (£180-200).