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| From: MagerValp (all posts)
Date: 2002-03-03
Subject: Re: Plus 4 1541 disk drive
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>>>>> "RA" == Richard Atkinson <rga24@cantab.net> writes:
MV> Sheesh, you british people. How could you stand using tapes in the MV> first place? :)
RA> Because we were poor! Britain had been hit very hard in the 1970s RA> by the trade unions / Labour government and again in 1981 with Mrs RA> Thatcher's rather "laissez-faire" policy on the recession. After RA> that, a kind of inertia set in - although Amstrad released the RA> Spectrum +3 with a built-in disk drive in 1988, we'd all got so RA> used to tape loading (and the nice prices of tape games) that it RA> was extremely hard to market a disk machine that was much more RA> expensive than the tape versions and ran disks that were RA> (comparing game prices) between 2x and 4x the price. There was no RA> possibility for the same kind of economies of scale that tape RA> games enjoyed.
That's certainly the most interesting explanation I've heard. I don't quite grok the disk game price thing though, around here the tape version was usually £14.95 - £19.95 and the disk version about £5 more
(about SEK 10 to £1 back then). The disk version loaded faster and of course there were several really good games that weren't available on tape at all. I saved and saved for months to be able to fork out the
£120 for a used Excelerator plus drive, but it was well worth it.
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