Your VIC-20 is worth $300!!! W_at_W!

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Wed Jan 30 19:58:32 2002

 Damn., I wish you guys wouldn't necessitate me having to unbury items.
 First of all there's an indentation on the outside of the styrofoam for the
manual. Inside is a circular cut-out for the cable, another slot for the crayon
tube, a long slot with a short boot bottom for the standard power cord that
would never be big enough for a wall-wart and the main cut-out with room for
the print roll and plastic box cover which could be slipped out of the slide-in
brackets. Scooped it from a dumpster. Never used except by me to test it.

Lawrence
 

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
> > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
> > >
> > > > Anyway, mine has a built-in PSU. Just an IEC plug on the back ('kettle
> > > > plug') that, in my case, takes in 240V AC. I guess they were made with
> > > > different transformers for other voltages.
> > >
> > > It would appear that mine does as well. I never looked at it closely,
> > > since it looked like a brick or wall-wart was supposed to fit into the
> > > styrofoam packing. I guess nothing went there.
> >
> > Paper roll?
> >
> > IIRC. the paper roll does not fit inside the 1520, it hangs on the back
> > on a couple of silly brackets. Which were packed separately in the box.
> > Presumably the paper roll had to go somewhere.
> >
> > Or maybe a 'kettle lead'? I'd expect it to have come with one.
>
> Nope, there is a separate cut-out in the styrofoam where the cables were
> packed. The cutout I mentioned is about 3" in diameter, about 4" deep, and
> has a square bit of cardboard fitted into it. It looked about the right
> size for a wall-wart to fit into.
>
> Commodore's 1520 (mine at least) has an enclosed paper roll hanger on the
> back of the unit. It seemed to be attached from the factory.
>
> -Toth
>



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