A buddy of mine is packing up to move and asked me if I'd like to take a "bunch
of computer junk" off his hands. Now that I have it home, I find I have:
1 commodore 64.
1 composite monitor for a 64.
1 1541 floppy drive.
1 Sekosia(?) printer with a C=64 interface.
1 vic 1600 modem.
1 Apple Printer.
lots of manuals and stuff for the 2e I bought from him earlier.
lots of manuals, cartriges, and software for the 64.
I haven't had a chance to test anything but the printer, which appears to
work (although as usual my GS doesn't seem to LIKE it much. I may wind up
switching back to my epson lx800 with that machine.)
Once I've tested the 64 and whatnot to make sure it works, and messed about
with the software I always wanted to have but could never afford, I'm probably
going to get rid of it. And I can't quite put my finger on why, since I was
a '64 owner until 1990. Maybe its that I would miss the custom hardware I had.
Or that I can't imagine going back to a 60 column screen. Or the non-standard
interfaces for EVERYTHING on it. I dunno. Does it make sense that I wouldn't
be nostalgic for the machine I actually owned, as opposed to the apple2s?
*shrug*
Anyway. Just a heads up for you Commodore folk out there. :)
-Jim
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_calico.litterbox.com
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