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I’d have another in a heartbeat. £200. Eighteen months later gearbox went. Scrapped for £50. Went everywhere in it.I would love that car now.
I’d have another in a heartbeat. £200. Eighteen months later gearbox went. Scrapped for £50. Went everywhere in it.I would love that car now.
In 86 I was laughed at. My mates had 205s xr3is etc.That Volvo is far too cool to compare to the Activator!
Happy to say I am decades short of that. I mean, there is retro and there is retro..I read this briefly earlier and didn't have time to react....is over 60 the majority age on here? Shirley not?
/thread drift in a different direction now
We had a 464, bought with compo after Mum had been in an accident. It was good fun and comparable to the ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64. The Amiga cost loads more, from memory the one we got was double the price of the 464 it replaced?It was and still is a very cheap nasty cynical attempt to cash in on something that was generating money.
Take the already terrible Raleigh mustang frame, add the most awful 'suspension' forks and you have instant birthday / Christmas present fodder for unsuspecting but well meaning relatives to buy.
It has no car equivalent so you can calm your heads there.
But, in the dim and distant 80's lurked it's home computer equivalent...
The Amstrad CPC464
Parents new to this home computer lark were lured in by offers and for the same price as the far superior Atari ST or Amiga 500, Alan would supply the best habitat desk, his finest colour monitor as well as the already out of date CPC
So, yes, it's an Amstrad of the cycling world.
So off to the recycling centre with it, weigh it in and be glad in the knowledge that you saved another poor unsuspecting soul from bicycling misery
Happy to say I am decades short of that. I mean, there is retro and there is retro..
According to the interweb the 464 computer was £199 or £299 with monitor, so chuck in a desk etc it could easily get up to £499 I guess. Not exactly comparable to £499 for the ST on it's own though?Well, in our local Euronics, a bare ST was £499
The CPC package was £499, including a desk, monitor and a few other bits