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Re: OT, C64 musings Re: personal challange
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Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:02:36 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
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> Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, so I ended up taking them all home in
> my minivan to the TPUG (Toronto Pet Users Group) meeting one year. 30 64's.
> 1541's and 1702's. I hosed off most of them with a garden spray gun and
> packed them back in. I sold them out the back of the van to crazed
> Commodore enthusiasts (not that far from Lego fans mind you) at $15 bucks a
> piece. It was hilarious, these guys trying to offload their old 64's at
> $200 and me literally giving them away. I took the cash and bought Ethernet
> cards for our high school at the Commodore Canada warehouse firesale the
> next year. Sigh.
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> Calum
Oh my, there's some memories... I got my first 5.25 disk at a TPUG meeting
with PET software on it. Cost me 5 dollars for 1 floppy! (circa 1980)
And what was his name... oh I can't remember... but he was the king of
Commodore and had lots of articles in Transactor... Bert or something...
And those metal cases for the 64, there was a deal at school where you buy a
64, 1541, 1702, and the metal case for 800 dollars... i already had the 64
and 1541 so i couldn't justify buying yet another one, for you only *need*
one 64...
though by the end of the era (circa 1985-86) i had about 5-7 working 64's
and a stack of 1541's (all set to different #'s 8-11) all daisey chained to
my 64 with the 1670 (i think) ram expander, which I increased to 1 meg o'
memory, a 1581 (3.5 floppy), and a slew of 1702 monitors...
Love the 1702... especially after i bought a vcr!
and i was pleasantly surprised the other day when i saw a 1702 being used
for just that...
have a boo
http://sparky.i989.net/trai0110.htm
go all the way down to the bottom of the pics and you'll see a 1702.
what i didn't take a picture of was on the other side of the room was a 1902
(the monitor for the 128, which i also still own) being used for the same thing.
sweet!
i should open a commodore museum
</nostalgia>
stay safe
Dave
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| (...) Ah nostalgia. When I was a bit younger, in high school, I liquidated the high school Commodore64 lab of 30 machines, which happened to have been rat infested. The deal was Comspec (a large Canadian computer vendor at the time with many school (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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