My dad was going through some old receipts today, and found one for our family's first computer. It was the classic Commodore 64. We also bought a 1541 floppy disk drive and a 1701 monitor. Total price with tax was $1278.91. If you think that's expensive, adjusting for inflation that's the equivalent of $3110.38 in 2021 Canadian dollars. All for a system with 64k of RAM. Yet talented programmers could pull all sorts of things out of that machine, including synthesized voices. We later added a Roland DG dot matrix printer to this, but I can't provide a cost figure for that.
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