Commodore 64 returns

I'd say it's more of a restomod myself. Still kinda cool though.

linkarooni

Man, every one of my friend's who had a C64 in the eighties made millions in the nineties . . .

I didn't have one

Nor was I smart enough to invest when my friend, who had one, asked if I'd buy into their company. They were (early 90s, remember) putting a web browser on a cell phone. I didn't think it was a good idea . . .

I got all excited until I realized it was just a boring modern PC stuffed inside a C64 case. I still have a few original C64s and a lot of software stored in boxes on the other side of some annoying ocean or other. I vaguely want to throw one together and sit down for some serious Ultimate Wizard or Impossible Mission. Emulators do the job for now though.

I miss Pong.

I never messed with a commodore. We had a Tandy TRS 80.

I've still got a Kpro 1000 stored somewhere. My brother used it in college. It was even portable...sort of.

I have a Compaq version of that ^^^ dated 1984 - and it still works! I thought it would be fun to stuff a modern PC inside it too, but I have enough projects.

lewbud wrote: I'd say it's more of a restomod myself. Still kinda cool though. linkarooni

That is very cool. In this age of sleek Apple products, that clunky beige monstrosity has an almost steampunk aesthetic to it.

My first computer was a Vic 20.

Toyman01 wrote: I never messed with a commodore. We had a Tandy TRS 80. I've still got a Kpro 1000 stored somewhere. My brother used it in college. It was even portable...sort of.

My Dad had one of these through work. Ah, the fun of a CPM machine.

gamby wrote:

lewbud wrote: I'd say it's more of a restomod myself. Still kinda cool though. linkarooni

That is very cool. In this age of sleek Apple products, that clunky beige monstrosity has an almost steampunk aesthetic to it.

I totally agree. Kind of cool. A bit too much to spend on the high end of its spectrum of offerings for a piece of techno-irony, but still cool. Maybe it could bring new purpose to all those displaced tube TV's, too.

I've got a Mac IIfx laying around out in the garage. In it's day (1990) it was the baddest Mac out there and sold new for around $10,000. It would still boot the last time I tried maybe 10 years ago.

Toyman01 wrote: I never messed with a commodore. We had a Tandy TRS 80. I've still got a Kpro 1000 stored somewhere. My brother used it in college. It was even portable...sort of.

I have a Kaypro fluorescent sign in my basement. The workbench in my garage was from Commodore's headquarters. My first real job was at a local computer store. We were a Kaypro and Commodore dealer. Got certified for Amiga 500 and 2000 repair almost 24 years ago now. Did a bunch of C64 repairs too.

I have a C64 sitting in my parts bin. I planned on doing that conversion about 6 years ago using parts I had laying around until I realized how expensive microATX boards were at the time. Now I can pick one all of the parts I need from the webs for $200 or so.

If you gut a C64 (even a nonfunctional one) save the MOS 6581 SID chip and send it to me. Those things are getting hard to find.

I would say don't gut a working C64, they are getting kinda valuable.

I gutted it years ago. I'm not sure if I still have the boards, but next time I dig it out, I'll check. I didn't bother to power it on, because it had taken a trip to the bath tub, courtesy of a 4 year old.

Still have an old macintosh SE somewhere, surprised i have not fish tanked it yet like so..

wow.. memory lane here.. Vic 20, 64, 64+4, 128. and an Amiga 2000 were my first computers before I finally jumped into the PC

My neighbor has the TRS-80. The closest I had was the Atari 400.

Wow! 48k of RAM!

I also had the optional cassette drive.

Friend of mine had one of those ataris. His father was an electronics wiz and replaced the membrane keyboard with a real computer keyboard..

Our first computer was a Coleco Adam with a tape drive. That was upgraded to a C64 with dual floppy drives. My buddy with the Texas Instruments TI-99 had some serious floppy envy