24 Aug
2002
24 Aug
'02
9:41 a.m.
Gary Hildebrand wrote:
I found that the 64 is one of the best documented
computers around,
and I have a shelf full of books to prove it. It is truly a hacker's
computer, and reflecting on all the old compute! publications, people
could do amazing things with that little machine, in spite of its slow
disk I/O.
Shame they never seem to appear around my neck of the woods (West
Yorkshire,
UK). I picked one up but it's stone dead. PSU is fried, all I've got in the
way of PSUs is a 2-channel 0-30V @ 1A per channel benchtop. Can I get a C64
to boot using this, even just to see if the VIC, CPU, etc are OK?
Alternatively, anyone in the UK got a spare C64, PSU and disk drive (5 1/4"
or 3 1/2", I don't care either way).
Later.
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Phil.
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http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
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