Commander X16

My orig. C64 with it's IEEE based SFD-1001, 1541 Flash, RS232 and Hayes Smartmodem 1200 is all gone, sadly.  I ran a BBS on it in 1984 when I lived in Berkeley California.  All that remains aside from  of printouts of some assembly language and a very long basic program (see pic, that is 1 of 12 pages that I will type in some day) is a 1701 monitor.  

But starting 10 years ago, I've accumulated:

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  Pet 4032 with Visicalc ROM, a MSD drive and CBM 4022 Printer and more recently the SD2PET
  


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  2 x SX-64s (but call it one and a half because one has a video problem and a blown out SID)
  


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  1 x C128 with a jack'd up keyboard (recently bought a C=Key kit that someday will fix this)
  


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  1 x Plus 4 which I JUST bought from eBay last night; hopefully it will work; very much looking fwd to that
  


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  1 x MiniPet project
  


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  1 x Ben Eater 6502 setup
  

The Pet is the prize of my collection as it's the first computer I used as a young child; more importantly because I'm using it to give my 11 year old in-home STEM classes.  We are working on a simple game that she is writing in Basic.  I am hopeful that she will learn as I did and build upon it some day maybe not as an IT professional but in learning to break through barriers, to think logically, and be resourceful when it comes to solving programs.

And yes, for me, it all started with the desire to play games beginning with Invaders on the Pet.

On 10/7/2020 at 1:24 PM, EMwhite said:

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  1 x Plus 4 which I JUST bought from eBay last night; hopefully it will work; very much looking fwd to that
  

That's funny, I just lost an auction on a Plus/4 that same night.  Still in the original box, with the manuals and everything! 

It wasn't on eBay, though, it was on Goodwill, so I guess it wasn't the same auction.

I lost that auction also but then jumped on the most reasonable Buy-it-now available that night.  Still $150.  Could backfire on me if it does not work but we will see what shows up in about a week.

I was never really onboard with the Plus 4 but the "Commodore History - Part 4" with the Bill Herd interview pushed me over the edge.  A real UART, high # of colors, built in monitor and lore appeal to me and I think it might be the spiritual ancestor of what the X16 will be; something which is not C64 compatible, but with a faster clock, lofty goals.  It's ironic that Commodore went 'back' to the 128 from there and obviously, the rest is history.

Hahaha! That's too funny.  Sorry, I'm the jerk who put it up from $125 to $150 at the last minute (and still lost). Many apologies, my friend. Please do let us know if it works.

I've got a Commodore 64 (with its 1541, but the cable's missing, anyone?) and an Apple ][c around here. Also a Mac Performa 6200CD I should repair one of these days.

What do I have:



- snes

- Nintendo 64

- Gamecube

- Wii

- Wii U

- Switch

- Gameboy

- Gameboy Color

- DS

- DS XL

- DS XL 3D



- Sega GameGear



- Atari 2600

- Atari Lynx

- Atari 65XE

- Atari 800XE

- Atari 520ST

- Atari 1040ST

- Atari 1040STf

- Atari 1040STfm

- Atari 1040 STe (2x)

- Atari Mega STe (2x)

- Atari TT030

- Atari Falcon



- Commodore C16 (with internal 64k)

- Commodore 64 Breadbin (3x)

- Commodore 64C (2x)

- Commodore C128

- Amiga 500 (2x)

- Amiga 2000 (2x)

- Amiga 1200

- Amiga CDtv



- Apple 512k ED

- Apple Macintosh Plus

- Apple Macintosh SE/30

- Apple Macintosh IIfx

- Apple Macintosh IIsi

- Apple Macintosh Performa II

- Apple Quadra 640

- Apple Quadra 840av

- Apple Quadra 900 with A/UX

- Apple Macintosh 8100

- Apple Macintosh 8600

- Apple Macintosh 9600

- Apple PowerPc G3 (grey version)

- Apple PowerPc G3 blue and white version

-- Apple PowerPc G4

- Apple PowerMac G5

- Apple MacPro 1.1

- Apple MacPro 2.1

- Apple MacPro 3.1

- Apple xServe 2.1

- Apple xServe 3.1

- Apple Powerbook G3

- Apple Powerbook G4 (2x)

- Apple MacBook

- Apple MacBook Pro (2x)

- Apple eMac

- Apple iMac G3

- Apple iMac G5

- Apple iMac 2008 (2x)

- Apple iMac 2010 27 inch

- Apple iMac 2011 21 inch

- Apple MacMini 2011



- ZX Spectrum 48k (I have/had more of them, no clue were they are)

- Sinclair QL



Oh yes the Apple Newton and Apple eMate 300, I almost forgot, ooh and the Atari Portfolio, ooh I almost forgot, an original IBM PC with 8088 and CGA color monitor.



For the rest an Arduino board, some Raspberry Pi's (2 and 4) and some Cypress PSoc's



That's it.



 

On 10/10/2020 at 8:15 PM, Yuki said:

I've got a Commodore 64 (with its 1541, but the cable's missing, anyone?) and an Apple ][c around here. Also a Mac Performa 6200CD I should repair one of these days.

You can still buy them online.

3 minutes ago, panzerfaustnl said:

You can still buy them online.

Of course, I gotta have to look at that. Preferably from a seller that doesn't cost too much for shipping.

11 minutes ago, panzerfaustnl said:

That's it.

Oh is that all? ?

27 minutes ago, SlithyMatt said:

Oh is that all? ?

ooh I forgot my playstation (1,3,4) and xbox (original, 360) game consoles. And my Playstation handhelds.