[Discuss] Commodore 64

[Murray Strome]

Mark McLaughlin - Best Color Video wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Patrick <NixNoob-sneaking at sneakemail.com>
> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 15 May 2008 13:06:29 -0700
>> "Andrew Burgess" wrote:
>>     
>>> One of my clients gave me a fully functional Commodore 64 . I want to
>>> know if anyone has a use for it or knows of someone who would put it
>>> into a museum or something like that?
>>>       
>> Well, I probably *could* find a use for it, but it would be
>> frivolous.  I have fond memories of Ultima III.
>>
>> Don't know about museums, but why not ask the UVIC Computer
>> Sciences people?  After all, we've been using their building...
>> It might not teach much about modern hardware or software, except
>> perhaps show some its roots, but that by itself can be useful.
>> They might like it.  :-)
>>
>> And another fond memory, before my time though;
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!
>>
>> Patrick.
>>
>> I have a fully functional Amiga 1000 with an extra 2Meg side pack!
>>
>> Anyone interested
Well, I have at least three Commodore 64s, but don't know if I have more 
than one or two power supplies for them. I also have a dual floppy drive 
for them (I think a floppy contained about 150K).  I have a couple of 
VIC-20s as well, and even extra memory for those that I built. I also 
have an Amiga which has a PC emulator built in, and the most expensive 
software I ever bought for anything (for MIDI). The 20MB HD for it 
doesn't work, but everything else does. I suppose I should try to get 
rid of some of this stuff. It was fun programming all this in Assembler 
Language years ago.  I know any of these could be used for controlling 
stuff around the home. I also have several Commodore monitors, which are 
really great for video monitors. I have always been meaning to check it 
out, but I think that with rewiring the cables, they could be used as 
S-VHS monitors. I have a really nice impact printer (something like the 
old IBM Selectric typewriter) for the Commodore as well).

I paid a lot more for my Commodore stuff than my most expensive PC!!!! I 
think the first VIC-20 was about $450 and the first Commodore-64 was 
about $850. The dual floppy was around $800. The Amiga was about $650 
used and the MIDI software another $650.  Computer technology is about 
the only thing that keeps giving you more "bang for the buck" as time 
goes on.


I also have a Videonics analogue video mixer, and some other analogue 
equipment for video editing which I haven't used for quite a while.  I 
would consider parting with any or all of this for a low price if anyone 
could put it to good use.

Murray