How many commodore 64's do you own working or no? I have a lot, not sure how many. I live near the old Commodore factory, they still pop up out of the ground when it rains Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net
I own one working old board c128 (rom rev 3 (with the lowercase q bug) with 6581 sid, are these uncommon? I thought most c128s used 8580 sids...), one working breadbox c64, and a dead 'new style' c64 with a probably ok vic2, an unknown cpu, and a probably dead 'big ASIC', and no 8580 SID (Someone absconded with it before it was sold to me). I could use a different motherboard for the dead newer c64 or a parts board with a good asic; i think this board is the 'older' of the two asics which does not integrate the color ram inside the asic itself, though I also think either board will fit in the case... Drive-wise: one 1541 (new board, rom rev 3), one 1571 (rom rev 3, I should really update this to 5 to fix the bug where writing to side 1 of MFM disks is offset by a half track), neither drive has the parallel port mod nor jiffydos. I have a 1581 loaned by a friend as well. One cassette drive. On 2/18/2017 10:07 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
How many commodore 64's do you own working or no?
I have a lot, not sure how many. I live near the old Commodore factory, they still pop up out of the ground when it rains
Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net
-- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
I believe that I have 20 to 25 of them. I haven't recently counted them. I would love to pick some up as they pop out of the ground! Now that would be a sight! On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:07 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
How many commodore 64's do you own working or no?
I have a lot, not sure how many. I live near the old Commodore factory, they still pop up out of the ground when it rains
Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net
-- Jeff Brace - ark72axow@gmail.com Sent from my Commodore 64
On 2/18/2017 9:07 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
How many commodore 64's do you own working or no? 86 complete units for sure (19 in boxes). I have probably 16-20 more motherboards and about 10 empty cases, so I suspect I have ~96 units. Not sure if SXs count, but there are 9 of them here.
Yes, that's too many. In my defense, I came upon most of them from a club that had disbanded in Wisconsin, and a few more from an estate where the widow wanted them gone or she was going to bin them. I have a plan for 64 of them, a few are my daily drivers, but the rest are just still here because I have a great packing prowess. Jim
I have a few 64s in various states of repair, a couple of Vic 20s, a couple of 128s, and an sx64. My daily driver is a 128 and 1571 with jiffy DOS, a 1581 and 1541II. On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:58 PM RETRO Innovations via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 2/18/2017 9:07 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
How many commodore 64's do you own working or no? 86 complete units for sure (19 in boxes). I have probably 16-20 more motherboards and about 10 empty cases, so I suspect I have ~96 units. Not sure if SXs count, but there are 9 of them here.
Yes, that's too many. In my defense, I came upon most of them from a club that had disbanded in Wisconsin, and a few more from an estate where the widow wanted them gone or she was going to bin them. I have a plan for 64 of them, a few are my daily drivers, but the rest are just still here because I have a great packing prowess.
Jim
None... I won't own a vintage computer which is nearly all custom chips where you need to hoard them for the future. As an Apple guy I don't even own a IIc, IIe or a GS for that reason. ROMs don't count, you can always burn a prom to replace it. Cheers, Corey corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
On Feb 18, 2017, at 10:07 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
How many commodore 64's do you own working or no?
I have a lot, not sure how many. I live near the old Commodore factory, they still pop up out of the ground when it rains
Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net
I don't think I've ever heard that type of justification for not owning a vintage computer. In my experience, for the most part, if it's already in good working order, it will pretty much stay that way. I have had a few computers blow caps here and there, but nothing of the Commodore or Apple variety. I expect most of them to last through my lifetime. To answer the original question, in terms of strictly C-64, SX-64, C-64c, C-128, and C-128DCR computers, I have 9, including my original C-64 from back in the day. They all work, although one of the C-128's has a busted keyboard (from shipping) and my two SX-64s need keyboard refurbs. -Bill ======================================================== Bill Loguidice, Managing Director; Armchair Arcade, Inc. <http://www.armchairarcade.com> ======================================================== Authored Books <http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Loguidice/e/B001U7W3YS/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_1> and Film <http://www.armchairarcade.com/film>; About me and other ways to get in touch <http://about.me/billloguidice> ======================================================== On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 6:27 AM, corey cohen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
None...
I won't own a vintage computer which is nearly all custom chips where you need to hoard them for the future. As an Apple guy I don't even own a IIc, IIe or a GS for that reason. ROMs don't count, you can always burn a prom to replace it.
Cheers, Corey
corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
None...
Same here, sold a 4+ once. Just never got into them.
I won't own a vintage computer which is nearly all custom chips where you need to hoard them for the future.
I don't think I've ever heard that type of justification for not owning a vintage computer.
It's certainly a main factor when I consider what I keep and what I repair, play with, and sell. It's 95% of the reason I was looking for an Apple 2+ (the other 5% is the V-slots). On the flip side, custom chip replacements give me an excuse to make replacements :) Thanks, Jonathan
Corey, Don't forget that most of those custom chips have community replacements, like PLAnkton (http://www.melon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2370) or SuperPLA. These chips really aren't custom ASICs, in the modern sense, except for the SID, and there are several 95% replacements for that. - Alex On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 06:29 corey cohen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
None...
I won't own a vintage computer which is nearly all custom chips where you need to hoard them for the future. As an Apple guy I don't even own a IIc, IIe or a GS for that reason. ROMs don't count, you can always burn a prom to replace it.
Cheers, Corey
corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
On Feb 18, 2017, at 10:07 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
How many commodore 64's do you own working or no?
I have a lot, not sure how many. I live near the old Commodore factory, they still pop up out of the ground when it rains
Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net
One, because I never had one back in the day and wanted one now! :-) Tony Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 18, 2017, at 10:07 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
How many commodore 64's do you own working or no?
I have a lot, not sure how many. I live near the old Commodore factory, they still pop up out of the ground when it rains
Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net
On 02/18/2017 10:07 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
How many commodore 64's do you own working or no?
I have a lot, not sure how many. I live near the old Commodore factory, they still pop up out of the ground when it rains
Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net
None, I gave them all to Jeff B. I'll have no of that in my home! ;-) Pre Jack Tramiel Atari's only here! -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
Probably more than 30, but I haven't counted. Many VIC-20s, 4 SX-64s, 3 PETs, all brown key (no chicklet), one of which is 80 column (technically a CBM). A handful of 128s, C16s, and Plus/4s. Recently found a KIM-1. Piles of 1541s (more than 25) and a few 1571s and 1541-IIs. Need a 1540 and a C128D. Not holding my breath for some of the rare stuff that Bill D. has. On Feb 18, 2017, at 10:07 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: How many commodore 64's do you own working or no? I have a lot, not sure how many. I live near the old Commodore factory, they still pop up out of the ground when it rains Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net
speaking of custom chips, there was another article about this topic, regarding the eb@y auctions from china. Wondering of anyone else saw this. That the cause of the fake parts, which has been a hot topic for many years, is the result of the mistaken identification of components. Since the wearing and fading of the ink of the part# after 35+yrs while sitting in warehouses, and also from just cleaning the parts. Most of the parts are marked correctly,and they apparently used fake datecodes to distinguish the re-stamped parts. Presumably they acquired all of these computers from the sales during liquidation or simply just e-waste shipped overseas. Some of the part suppliers in the article, who buy these parts by the thousands directly from these sellers iso eb@y, vouch for theses sources. article is on pg.16 https://issuu.com/kilobytemagazine/docs/kilobytemagazine2017-1 you can also download the pdf directly from them without needing an acct from that other website https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TI_Wdty1HdejVCNEhvQjRtWFU/view Dan
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