Re: odd c64 and nice pet find

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 2000-10-03 05:46:13

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Nicolas Welte wrote:

> 
> The PET is a calculator keyboarded 2001 with 320008 board (i.e. 6540
> ROMs and 6550 RAMs) and 8k RAM and I think the first ROM version. It
> seems to be working, but some keys don't work, others respond only when
> pressed hardly. 

This was a constant problem with those keyboards.  You will have to take
it apart and clean the contacts.

> The C64 gives me a headache, it's the worst mix of different components
> I ever saw. I suspect someone at an official Commodore service point
> made this unit from parts, since it still has an undamaged warranty
> seal, but at least some oddities remain: It is a brown breadbox (newer
> low profile version with port names imprinted on the back) with white
> keyboard (last version with graph symbols on top of keys). So far this
> sounds like a normal Aldi-C64. But this one has a C64A board installed
> and carries the type label "C64C ser.no. DA4 224462 B1 made in Germany".
> The sticker doesn't look like peeled off a real C64C and then put onto
> that machine, someone with a set of spare stickers or a good talent to
> remove stickers must've done this.

This is probably a reconditioned unit.  Commodore sold replacement labels
to authorized service dealers.


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