Oct 3, 2026 · 15 min · 11 segments
On this day in 1984, Wednesday the sixth of June, Alexey Pajitnov finished the first playable version of Tetris on a text-only Electronika 60 in Moscow. Wham are at number one with Wake Me Up Before…
Mark WebbHostLet's do the shops next because this is a funny moment on the high street.
Uh, it's early summer '84, and, uh, the British home computer boom is right at its peak.
All of these are from adverts and magazine news of the time, so take them, uh, as roughly what you'd pay.
A 48K Spectrum was a £129.95 after Sinclair cut the price the summer before, and the 16K one was £99.95.
The Commodore 64, uh, had been well over £300 the year before, and, uh, by the end of '84, Argos had it at £199.
Alan Sugar, uh, announced it in, uh, April at £229 with a green screen or £329 with color, and it's only got about a fortnight to go before it reaches the shops.
Let's do the shops next because this is a funny moment on the high street.
Uh, it's early summer '84, and, uh, the British home computer boom is right at its peak.
All of these are from adverts and magazine news of the time, so take them, uh, as roughly what you'd pay.
A 48K Spectrum was a £129.95 after Sinclair cut the price the summer before, and the 16K one was £99.95.
The Commodore 64, uh, had been well over £300 the year before, and, uh, by the end of '84, Argos had it at £199.
Alan Sugar, uh, announced it in, uh, April at £229 with a green screen or £329 with color, and it's only got about a fortnight to go before it reaches the shops.
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