jdh (03/22/83)
These are the best (yet discovered) local Commodore prices: (3/22/83)
Sunnyvale Electronics 548 S. Murphy Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA (408) 736-1323
C-64 $499
VIC-20 $149
1541 disk $399
1525 printer $345
Robert Lock, editor of COMPUTE! magazine says that the VIC-20 was recently
advertised at K-Mart for $139; he expects it to be less than $100 soon.
The best prices available to bay areans seems to be the Olympic Sales
mail order outfit; let me recap their prices:
Olympic Sales; Los Angeles; 800-421-8045 outside CA
(I haven't called them yet; this is an echo of a previous
network announcement).
C-64 $399
1541 disk $369
with advertised deal that with purchase of C-64 you get $100 off the disk,
or a free monitor, or $100 off software.
I've noticed that both the VIC-20 and the C-64 have lousy video output
UNLESS you bypass the RF modulator (ie plug the composite video output directly
into a color composite monitor). Comments, anybody?