When or IF you get rid of it, im very interested in that monitor.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim <jim(a)calico.litterbox.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 10:19 PM
Subject: treasure haul
A buddy of mine is packing up to move and asked me if
I'd like to take a
"bunch
of computer junk" off his hands. Now that I have
it home, I find I have:
1 commodore 64.
1 composite monitor for a 64.
1 1541 floppy drive.
1 Sekosia(?) printer with a C=64 interface.
1 vic 1600 modem.
1 Apple Printer.
lots of manuals and stuff for the 2e I bought from him earlier.
lots of manuals, cartriges, and software for the 64.
I haven't had a chance to test anything but the printer, which appears to
work (although as usual my GS doesn't seem to LIKE it much. I may wind up
switching back to my epson lx800 with that machine.)
Once I've tested the 64 and whatnot to make sure it works, and messed about
with the software I always wanted to have but could never afford, I'm
probably
going to get rid of it. And I can't quite put my
finger on why, since I
was
a '64 owner until 1990. Maybe its that I would
miss the custom hardware I
had.
Or that I can't imagine going back to a 60 column
screen. Or the
non-standard
interfaces for EVERYTHING on it. I dunno. Does it
make sense that I
wouldn't
be nostalgic for the machine I actually owned, as
opposed to the apple2s?
*shrug*
Anyway. Just a heads up for you Commodore folk out there. :)
-Jim
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)calico.litterbox.com
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