I still remember to this day when I bought my ZX81 for 999SKR at the local bookshop Quidings. My father wanted us kids to do motocross, but I hated it sold mine to my bigger brother and had the funds for the computer.

The 1KB RAM was a little bit on the low end but with an expansion card you could do and learn a lot.

Went on with the C64 and so on …