--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 ghldbrd_at_ccp.com wrote:
>
> > I sent my drive to a factory authorized tech who wanted >$150 to repair
> > the drive, and new drives were about $200 and dropping...
> > I replaced the head, did a quick alignment and it is still working to
> > this day, 25 years later. I bought a second
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> That can't be right. The Commodore 64 is only 20 years old this year.
I had my hands on one in April of 1982, serial number 2007. My first
job was programming it for the company that received it as a pre-release
development system. According to "The Secret Timeline" at
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/timeline.html
The C-64 was announced in January, 1982. So... it was 20 last year,
but still not 25.
-ethan
Received on Fri Jul 04 2003 - 01:52:00 BST