3 Jul
2003
3 Jul
'03
6:52 p.m.
--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 ghldbrd(a)ccp.com wrote:
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
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.