16-Bit/32-Bit UK Computer Price Comparisons

[Amigajay]

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interesting pricing, especially on the A1200 , it was more expensive in 1995 than at any time since its launch, even in 1992 it was only £379, £20 cheaper than in 1995, im guessing this was the Escom model ? still rather strange how they priced it.

As for the Acorn went from £499 down to £160 in the space of 3 years!! and over £200 cheaper than the previous year.

[Amigajay]

Originally Posted by xubidoo

interesting pricing, especially on the A1200 , it was more expensive in 1995 than at any time since its launch, even in 1992 it was only £379, £20 cheaper than in 1995, im guessing this was the Escom model ? still rather strange how they priced it.

As for the Acorn went from £499 down to £160 in the space of 3 years!! and over £200 cheaper than the previous year.

Yep this was the stupid relaunch price by Escom, well the RRP was £399 in 1992 just that some retailers sold it for £379.

Yep the Archimedes was basically clearance pricing by then, game over for most non PC tech by 1995. Though the Archimedes at least had some software support, the same cant be said for that 1MB Atari Falcon model, a total of 4 boxed games spread out over 2 years were released for it, made the A1200 look not as bad a buy as some make out!

[redblade]

Hi.

According to wikipedia Oct 15 1990 Mac Classic was released 68000@8mhz, BW Screen (512x342).
1MB Ram (Expandable to 4MB), 1.44MB floppy (No Hard Disk)$999USD,
2MB Ram (Expandable to 4MB), 1.44MB floppy (40MB SCSI HDD)$1500USD

[Amigajay]

Originally Posted by redblade

Hi.

According to wikipedia Oct 15 1990 Mac Classic was released 68000@8mhz, BW Screen (512x342).
1MB Ram (Expandable to 4MB), 1.44MB floppy (No Hard Disk)$999USD,
2MB Ram (Expandable to 4MB), 1.44MB floppy (40MB SCSI HDD)$1500USD

Hi, thanks but this list is for UK machines under £600, Mac never qualified its prices were akin to iphone pound for dollar prices now.

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by Amigajay

Interesting point, whilst the 512K Atari ST models were always cheaper than the Amiga equivalents, the 1MB ST models were always more expensive.

Except here:



Commodore Amiga 500 (512k/7mhz) - £359
Atari 520STE (512k/8mhz) - £399

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Amigajay

1995
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Acorn Archimedes 3010 - (1MB, 12mhz) - £160

Oh to have bought an Acorn Archimedes A3010 in 1995 or later (and removed the battery).

Their self destruct mechanism (battery leak almost as bad as A500+) lots of press during lockdown with GadgetUK repairing several of them, means A30x0 have quadroupled in value in a very short space of time :-(

[Amigajay]

Originally Posted by Phantasm

Except here:



Commodore Amiga 500 (512k/7mhz) - £359
Atari 520STE (512k/8mhz) - £399

They still had the STFM which was cheaper that year

[AmigaHope]

I don't get why the STE was so bloody expensive. It included a couple of extra chips but they can't have been so expensive as to add 100 to the cost.

[Amigajay]

Originally Posted by AmigaHope

I don't get why the STE was so bloody expensive. It included a couple of extra chips but they can't have been so expensive as to add 100 to the cost.

Well it was Atari’s proper answer to the Amiga 500, so i guess they wanted it aimed more at the A500 price when people compare them in shops, that along with they probably had surplus stocks of normal ST’s they couldn’t flog past a certain time which were aimed at a much lower price, but i’m not sure when the ST was discontinued but shops were still selling them in 1993.

[trixster]

Classic Archimedes prices had dropped considerably by 1995 because Acorn was pushing the RiscPC instead