Ordinarily I’d counter that with the price of replacement parts and the cost of labour for people skilled in system or OS maintenance for the era…
…but I should imagine you could trip over C64s (or their derivatives) in most tech fairs or car boot sales, and I’d imagine that most current gen software engineers got their start in BASIC, so yeah. Absolutely spot on call. It works.
Ordinarily I’d counter that with the price of replacement parts and the cost of labour for people skilled in system or OS maintenance for the era…
…but I should imagine you could trip over C64s (or their derivatives) in most tech fairs or car boot sales, and I’d imagine that most current gen software engineers got their start in BASIC, so yeah. Absolutely spot on call. It works.