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Commodore, thats funny. A month or so ago I was going through some old boxes and found my vintage VIC 20 with the tape datasette and other accessories. I thought I might try and hook it up again but just put in the garbage can and rolled it to the street a couple days later.
I knew I was going to get bashed a little for that. I looked on eBay and they were going for 100-200 with a ton of games and accessories. Didnt seem worth the hassle seeing its not been hooked up since about 1987 or so, not even sure if it would work anymore. Sat in a Damp Michigan basement until 2005 when I moved to Texas.
I cut my teeth on the VIC20 before upgrading to the 64, datacasettes and 5 inch floppy disks, and basic programming in all her glory. I would've bought it on the chance it could have been saved, but oh well. I won't bash you about that, but thinking $100-$200 dollars isn't worth a trip to the post office, I gotta say, I wouldn't have told that. We have a "For Sale:WTB" section, a post there would have made it worth the effort I'm sure. Maybe next time...
I feared the old black mold looking stuff or whatever it was would not be appealing to most. I didnt even want to touch it, lol. I sell new transmission speedometer gears on eBay, Amazon, and my sites. I was not sure how professional it would have looked to have that crusty stuff advertised for sale on my eBay Pro store. Never even thought about posting it on the Radio forums I visit, I will have to keep that in mind for the future. That 100-200 stuff on eBay looked brand compared to my old junk, lol. It would have taken ton cleaning. I to cut my teeth on the Vic 20 with the basic programming, started with just making words scroll across the screen and such, then a bouncing ball, squares rotating, even did a hangman game, LOL. Now I do my code for my websites, I use an editor then mod what it will not do the way I like it. I really need to brush up on the HTML-5, thats a lot different so I end up looking up that on the internet frequently.
It's all good, but know you made my heart hurt a little, but I will be okay. I bought a 64 that was fire damaged, keys melted together and rough, but the CPU was good after cleaning the soot off, I didn't pay much for it and the CPU kept my nice 64 working. I repair and collect vintage (by todays standards) computers and gaming consoles.
Oh man!!! I wish I woulda got a hold of you earlier... Ive yet to have a VIC-20 lol... All is well...
Just make sure you are aware of the damn epoxy filled C64 power supplies. They will take stuff out sooner or later. Better to get a C128 power supply with an adapter or an aftermarket PSU.
When I had my C64's, my father in law and I built custom supplies with metal project boxes. Of course that was when Radio Shack was a real electronics store. Along with Lafayette, Olsen and a spattering of others.
I still have about 3 of the Commodore monitors, a couple of C64's (well at least one), and a couple of Amiga 500's.
They were a fun computer, too bad they sucked up all the profits instead of reinvesting. The Amiga was really a superior computer in the day...in my opinion anyway.
I even had a couple of SX64's at one time. Kinda neat for family gatherings with some trivia software and some floppys with games. Back when games were a couple of 1.25 360kb, or the 1.44 mb 3.5 floppy. Now games are GB's.
oops, meant 5.25 floppy.
I still have about 3 of the Commodore monitors, a couple of C64's (well at least one), and a couple of Amiga 500's.
They were a fun computer, too bad they sucked up all the profits instead of reinvesting. The Amiga was really a superior computer in the day...in my opinion anyway.
I even had a couple of SX64's at one time. Kinda neat for family gatherings with some trivia software and some floppys with games. Back when games were a couple of 1.25 360kb, or the 1.44 mb 3.5 floppy. Now games are GB's.
oops, meant 5.25 floppy.
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Good stuff. Either this year or next I was going to Pi-Storm my Amiga 500. I already did it to the Amiga 2000 and man... Talk about sending that old computer 1000 MHz with a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ board lol. Even faster with a Pi 4. No more rendering taking half hour or more per low resolution 3D. Does it in minutes.