Re: CBM900 to SVGA monitor

>And that is - as far as I know - a much smaller number than the number of 
>C65 prototypes that are known to exist today. Which makes C900 more rare 
>than C65.

I don't think you can compare C65 and commodore 900.

The commodore 900 was a boring unix workstation that was slow and had very 
little ram. The users will likely have been people who bought it to do a job 
30 years ago and it stopped being useful a few years later. When that 
happened the majority of them will have been thrown away.

The commodore C65 was a mysterious thing that got cancelled and then bought 
up in a liquidation sale after commodore went under and heavily advertised 
in magazines that people who loved commodore were still reading. They were 
bought purely for their unique charm, I'd expect the majority (if not all of 
them) to survive.


Whether something survives is pretty random.

http://www.rebol.com/article/0491.html

"I should mention that the main reason I was keeping most of this was for 
prior-art computer HW/SW patent proofs (because Amiga and CDTV were ahead of 
the curve.)"

Plenty of interesting equipment ended up being destroyed or in the back of a 
cupboard, or hoarded by someone who doesn't want you to know they have it.


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