This guy is a huge Commodore 64 fan, understandably so. However, in terms of inflation adjusted dollars, it was expensive in 1982, like $1580 in today's dollars. Even more so if you bought any of the many Commodore 64 accessories.
A company called Sinclair came up with a cheap computer called the Spectrum that was enormously popular in England and Europe, and Timex sold an upgraded version of the Spectrum in the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpXFB8ZEH30
So I had to write this:
"In 1983 I got a Timex Sinclair 2068 for $200. It also had a great sound chip and a 3.58 MHZ Z80 and a keyboard that I actually liked. It had many advantages over the Sinclair Spectrum. It was much computer for the money, compared to the $595 for the C64, equal to over $1500 today, which for me was way cost-prohibitive. I temporarily had a healthy business selling software I wrote for the 2068. I loved this machine. I'm sure that I would have loved the C64 more with the better graphics, but the cost was a huge issue."
I am actually very proud of the business that I ran selling 2068 software. This helped me get computer jobs later, and eventually, I worked in the console videogame industry.
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