jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) (09/28/87)
I recently picked up two of the surplus alledged Commodore 64 circuit boards that have been advertised in Computer Shopper and other places. The ones I have came from Fair Radio in Lima Ohio and were only about twenty bucks each. They seem to work fine, I have one installed in my old VIC-20 case. They have no color ram, no sound chip, no RF modulator, no switch and no power connector. The power up message is COMMODORE 4064 BASIC 2.0 The boards are marked 1982 Rev A. Could someone from Commodore tell me the history of these boards? My guess is that thew were originally intended for the Educator 64, only it was going to be a PET followup, thereby getting the traditional PET model number (40 columns, 64K). The Educators being sold around here seem to have the full C64 board inside. Jim Harvey Michigan Bell ihnp4!mibte!jbh or ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh
fred@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Bowen) (10/02/87)
In article <2318@mibte.UUCP>, jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) writes: > I recently picked up two of the surplus alledged Commodore 64 > circuit boards that have been advertised in Computer Shopper > > They have no color ram, no sound chip, no RF modulator, no switch > and no power connector. The power up message is > COMMODORE 4064 BASIC 2.0 > The boards are marked 1982 Rev A. > > Could someone from Commodore tell me the history of these boards? They are still selling Educator's around there? >Geez< The reason the boards were missing all that junk is 'cause they were intended to be stuck inside PET cases, which of course have their own power & switch, monochrome monitor, and no speaker. A silly attempt to take the education market by storm, I suppose. ( You and the fella with the $3 CP/M cartridge should get together :-) -- -- Fred Bowen uucp: {ihnp4|rutgers|caip}!cbmvax!fred arpa: beats me tele: 215 431-9100 Commodore Electronics, Ltd., 1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA, 19380