I don't think so. 

I bought my first S100 bus 4MHz Z80 CP/M machine for $600 (I think the exchange rate then was 5:1, so 120 lbs., if 2:1 then 300 lbs.) American in 1978, and by 1980 had a nice little business selling complete SOHO systems for $700, which included Magic Wand (word processing) and dBaseII. For additional fees (typically ~ $500) my wife and I would set up a complete database management service that included programming your dBase database, data entry and management screens, and letter and label generation from selected fields from the database to your printer.

"The world's first truly affordable home computer"? Not even Britain's - it was a penny under 400 Quid! - that 32k BBC Model B was up against the 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum for £175. The earlier ZX81 & the build-it yourself ZX-80 were even cheaper.

On top of that you had to suffer interminably patronising programmes by the aforementioned woolly cardies plugging it at every opportunity ("here's a typical home computer"... oh look a BBC-B) on the commercial-free (sic.) BBC-TV. 

If they had their way it would have been "affordable" in the way that their "terribly good value for money" licence fee is collected by their state-approved terror guard (= the price of 16k Speccy in 1982!)

£399 back then? got rich parents did you?

sinclair's zx81 and spectrum (at about a quarter of the price) where the only "truely affordable" computers back then. please filter the press release before publishing.