On Thu, May 2, 2013 4:44 pm, Marko Mäkelä wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:26:23PM +0200, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote: >> >>On 2013-05-02, at 21:57, Bil Herd wrote: >>> >>> So I have one maybe two of the original C128 D in plastic cases with >>> the >>> original C128 board with the fan in the case. (My ex-girlfriend's >>> little >>> brother has my third one) Did this ever ship? >> >>I am not sure if I understand you correctly but the plastic C128D were >>quite popular in EU. Especially in .de. I /think/ the metal one (called >>sometimes "Blech Diesel" there) didn't reach the same level of sales as >>the plastic one with fan etc. > > In the 1980s, I read in a Finnish computer magazine that the 128D did > not get FCC approval in the US, while the 128DCR (the metal one) got it. > So, the 128D(CR) would have been released in the US some time after the > 128D was released in the Europe. > > I got the same impression that the plastic 128D is more common in Europe > than the metal 128DCR. I saw a 128DCR only once. Yes, we only have 128D(CR) metal ones in the US, so I have never seen a plastic one. I'd like to have one for my collection at some point, but they never turn up here. -Pete Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2013-05-02 21:01:17
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