Crappadore 64

From: tiborj <cerebral_at_michianatoday.com>
Date: Thu Jul 3 02:31:21 1997

At 10:31 PM 7/2/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>I have to get this off my chest.
>
>Commodore 64s have to be the god damn shittiest made computers ever. I
>had to test these 1571 drives that I sold someone and brought out 2 C64s
>I have in my garage and 2 power supplies because I know how notorious
>each part is for not working. I plug each in and niether work. I try
>the other p/s...same thing. I get ANOTHER p/s...both dead. I get yet
>ANOTHER power supply and 3 more C64 consoles I have. Of those 3, 2
>worked! Is this a shittily engineered system or what? What bad weed
>were these idiots who designed this smoking? I've never had such bad
>luck with any other system. Out of all the systems I've ever acquired,
>the commodores and their stupid prone-to-burning-out power supplies have
>been the most likely to not work. I've gotten systems out of the rain
>that have been sitting in the elements for probably YEARS that have
>worked. But a C64? Hell no! Piece of crap!
>
>There must be some well-known fix for these idiotic things. I turn them
>on and get just a pure black screen. This is what happened to the first
>C64 I ever got from a friend 9 years ago. It just up and died on me all
>of a sudden one time when I was using it. Screen went black. There's
>got to be an easy way to fix these stupid things. Either that or there
>must be a well known joke passed around in commodore circles about how
>unreliable these junk heaps are. What a depressing hunk of crap.
>
>Aye.
>
>Sam
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>Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass

As you sig says, you are a JAckass, but calling you a jackass is not fair to
the jackass. seeing that this is flamebait, I have to say that I NEVER had a
Commodore 64 that did not work. Now if you want to talk about shitty
commodore stuff, that would have to be the C=128 keyboard. the electronics
in it are fine, but the keyboard is crap. all in all however, Commodores
still rule over Apples anyday, sure the wonderful apple disk was faster, but
a fast disk alone dont make a machine. That is just like having a 454
supercharged big block in your garage, with nothing to put it in.....
Received on Thu Jul 03 1997 - 02:31:21 BST