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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECAM SECAM] only in the 80s. So using a C64 PAL on our SECAM TV was out of question as the colour was lost. A monitor was required. TVs only became PAL/SECAM compatible in the 90s.
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