Rumor has it that Gunther Schadow may have mentioned these words:
>There was this computer Commodore was going to make and then pulled
>out of the market. It was based on the 6509 CPU, I guess right before
>the 6510 / C64. I thought then as now that the case was especially
>nicely shaped (such beautiful round corners, reminescent of my 91
>Chevy Caprice.) I still remember when all those boards came onto
>the surplus market in a German electronics mail order catalog. When
>Commodore pulled them all from the market. I actually bought one
>back then, because I needed a replacement SID or something like that
>(I don't remember.) So, now I was looking for something in my old
>junk box and that board fell back into my hands. I think I don't
>need it any more, may be there is some collector here who would
>appreciate that board and bring it to life? Nothice that this is
>not a running system. It's just a mother board and all ROMs are
>pulled. The 6509 is on there and I'll be darned if it wasn't still
>good.
Without seeing pictures, it sounds like a Commodore B-128 (the business end
of Commie's computer line) - it was the predecessor of the C-128 - it was
6509-based, with a header to add the Z-80 coprocessor board - they were in
production, but I don't know for how long, or how many were made...
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Sat Jun 01 2002 - 09:00:15 BST