2 Sep
2006
2 Sep
'06
7:49 a.m.
On Sep 1, 2006, at 11:23 PM, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:21:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
My personal advice, get a C64, or maybe a C64c, skip the C128. I'm
saying
this not because I have anything against the C128, but because it
will be
different from what you remember. Plus as has been pointed out, it
does
take up more desktop space.
My "fondness" for the VIC-20 has been replaced with a "fondness"
for the C64
(a machine I hated when I was using the VIC-20, which was through
mid-1986).
I really want to setup my one nice C64 system, I mean I *REALLY*
want to set
it up. Unfortunatly I don't have the space, and truth be told, the
time. I
also really want to setup an Apple // of some sort, most likely a //
gs, but
there is the same problem.
I need to find a really good excuse to set up one or the other, and
so far I
haven't found one.
Zane
I agree with this, the C64 or a 64C (I had both) represent the height
of Commodore 8-bit, though I have always wanted a 128D. There are
supposedly "mint" in box examples of these on eBay right now. VIC-20
too. The 128 does have the Z-80 for CP/M though, if that interests you.
David
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