My father refused to pay money for the Apple // and IBM PC because they were too expensive. The Atari 2600 PC upgrade was a bust so he didn't like Atari 8 bit computers, so we got a Commodore 64 instead. I think Atari and Commodore made inexpensive computers that were part video game console. The video games were the real market.
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C64 was a beast. Crushed Apple II.
Apple countered with the IIc but it was not cheap enough. IBM countered with the IBM PCJr which Tandy licensed to get the graphics and sound for their Tandy PC 1000 series.