From: Gabriele Bozzi (mabuse68_at_gmail.com)
Date: 2006-08-21 21:00:54
Hallo list,
Last week I gathered in one of my "raids" a CBM 4032 sporting a 14
inches monitor (ya, baby has a big head).
When the guy switched it on it chirped like an 8032 and, to my little
astonishment, I found this evening that ,indeed, the motherboard is
marked as 'ASSY 80320080' and somewhere is clearly written '80col'.
Sooo... I understand the video circuitry of the series 80xx is miles
away from the one driving classic PETs monitors, what I do not
understand is why Commodore had to provide an 8032 motherboard for a
40 column product if just monitor size was concerned.
Even the keyboard is not a 'business' keyboard: all graphics symbols
have been preserved... Why doing this if a 40xx specimen already
existed?
Maybe was this machine upgradeable to 80 columns? Or just a freaky
40xx serie's brother?
I cannot figure out for what was the extra effort being worth !!!
Please, somebody enlight me ;-)
Gabriele
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