Commodore Series B-128

From: James Jackson <jjackson_at_salsa-digital.com>
Date: Mon Nov 20 09:07:28 2000

All this talk recently, reminds me of the computer that I just had to
have... the B-128.

I always liked its' looks, and finally found one many moons ago, so I
bought it.

It turns out to be a really neat computer... too bad C= didn't promote
it. (I think that they must've had many new ideas at the time, and
weren't sure which ones to pursue.)

Anyway, I linked it to an 8050 floppy drive, and played with it for a
bit.

I soon grew tired of it (well, not really - just needed the space),
and sold it to a fella locally. He probably still has it in storage,
too.

I had invested much in this computer - getting the schematics for it,
and other documentation.

It was sort of a cross between a C-64 and PET80xx(?) seies computer.

Was real fast at 2-Mhz, and would run many of the C-64 programs
straight out - provided they didn't get too graphics intensive.

I used to do timings between the B-128 and my ol' C-64.

Ahhh... those were the days.

Regards,

James Jackson
Received on Mon Nov 20 2000 - 09:07:28 GMT