[keeran]

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).

[Joeboy]

This 1983 ad has the 48k Speccy at £129.95[0] and the C64 at £345[1]. Admittedly I think the C64 came down in price not too long after.

[0] https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-08/p...

[1] https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-08/p...

[Marazan]

The spectrum was way cheaper than a C64.

The speccy had a launch price of £125 (£175 for the 48k version), the C64 launched at £399 in the UK.

[Saint_Genet]

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