Jason Scott (of Get Lamp) wants to make 6502, Tape, and Arcade documentaries

Re:Jason Scott (of Get Lamp) wants to make 6502, Tape, and A... by SwellJoe on Thursday September 15, 2011 @03:51PM (#3001844)

"if only because they were available for purchase at more locations."

And cost about a third what an Apple II cost. Only the rich kids in my school had Apples. Everybody else had a Commodore, Tandy, or Atari.

I'm certain that cost was the reason my family had a Commodore 64 rather than anything else (my dad is a very value conscious buyer, and the the C64 was a pretty solid value with more RAM, more color, better sound, and the cheapest floppy drive of all the contenders).

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Re:Jason Scott (of Get Lamp) wants to make 6502, Tape, and A... by zach on Thursday September 15, 2011 @05:03PM (#3002131)

I had a C64 as well and recall now that my friends with Apple IIs were all pretty well-off. This went completely over my head at the time.

Purely incidentally, my C64 floppy drive's case was cracked because the family acquaintance we got it from had found a broken drive second-hand, bought a new one at Toys R Us, swapped the internals and returned the one with bad guts to the store.

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