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Offline Chubbyrain

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Re: If there was a vintage comp system you could add to ...
« on: August 31, 2005, 05:21:26 AM »
I was pleased to finally land a Commdore 128D (Best 8 bit system ever)recently. I had briefly owned a 128 (non D) when they were launched but the PSU went west and when I took it back to the store, they had sold out and weren't getting any more in due to poor sales. I came home with a 64C instead and 1571 disk drive.

If they had passed over the whole C16/Plus4 thing and gone straight to the 128d.. who knows?

As for getting other systems, aside from the usual lust for an A4000, I would like to get some of the rarer 'also ran' systems from the 80s that I saw on sale briefly. The Camputers Lynx for instance or the Sharp MZ-80B. Even a TI99-8 (never saw one on sale but they did make some!).

I share your love for the VIC-20. That was my first machine. Made me get a part time job after school so I could afford cartridges!
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Re: If there was a vintage comp system you could add to ...
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2005, 06:13:48 PM »
My 128D isn't the funky plastic one with the carry handle. It's the metal case one. Still a thing of beauty though as it's mint. Same goes with my Pet 2001, although that's at the repair shop with a screen fault currently.

I remember the Enterprise. Wasn't that the one with the built in joystick? It was part of the pantheon that came out during the buzz of the early 80s, alongside such others as the Mattel Aquarius, Lynx (Camputers), Color Genie etc. I miss the diversity of designs that were in computer stores back then.

Another desirable one would be the Pet that had the C64 inside it. Can't remember what that one was called.
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