kwmc@hou5d.UUCP (06/28/83)
A friend of mine with little computing experience is hoping to buy a personal computer (under $1000 total) for educating himself in computers. Can anyone recommend a personal micro (maybe with a disc) that would be good for this purpose. Thanks, Ken Cochran hou5d!kwmc
rung@ihuxw.UUCP (06/29/83)
Video King in the Chicagoland area has the Commodore 64 for $199. You have the option to add on the 1541 disk drive for $249 (normally if $299 at Video King if purchased separately). If you page through Creative Computing or Compute or Byte etc., you'll find ads for AMDEK Color I monitor for $289. That leaves around $300 to for the purchase of any software desired. Pete Rung BTL - Naperville, Ill. ihuxw!rung
crs@lanl-a.UUCP (06/30/83)
If you are a touch typist, try out the keyboard before you by a Commodore. It is the only keyboard I've ever seen where the *home keys* are non- standard; they have placed the colon where the semicolon belongs. I just spent several hours cutting traces and rewiring the colon and semicolon keys on my VIC. The operation is nontrivial because the printed wiring traces are thin and because it happens that they are very dense in the vicinity of the keys in question. Presumably, it would also have been possible to patch the software but I am a hardware type so I took the route more familiar to me. Both the VIC an the 64 use this keyboard layout; does anyone know if Commodore will continue to use it on other models?