But all things considered, it was an excellent value, as both a tape recorder and a monitor were expensive items. And most buyers didn’t have spare ones to reuse anyway as it was their first computer.
Note: In France we had an additional problem in that our TVs were SECAM only in the 80s. So using a C64 PAL was out of question as the colour was lost when connected on our SECAM TV. TVs only became PAL/SECAM compatible in the 90s.
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