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[–] Prepackaged 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Except that is not the reason my family did not buy one. It was because they wanted to sell us a monitor. We could not fathom why they wanted us to buy this specialty-thing when the TV had always worked just fine.

We did get an explanation about how the computer needed it and we asked, "Then why did you build it so that it needed it? Would it have been so hard to build one that I could hook up to my TV?" They said "No" and we said "Bullshit" and when the C64 died we went without a computer for over a decade.

It really was the need to purchase a monitor. Not flops, not bytes, not any computer hardware. It was what we saw as an attempt to get more of our money for what was we thought of as a toy.