Anyone interested in buying the Commodore 128T?

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I respect the guy for "maybe" wanting to sell his project.
But, I have to agree that this is a thing most of us would regret sooner or later.

Gas prices are a bad excuse, in little Denmark we pay about 2,25$ per LITER!
That's just about 8,50$ pr Gallon!
1 Gallon = 3,78 Liter Online Conversion

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@redrumloa
I did not mean to argue with you on this, I'm sorry if you thought that!

I respect you for whatever you decide to do with your C128T.
I followed the threads about building this machine, so I think it's sad, IF you sell it. Of course, it's also bad to loose a job.

Somone else in the thread mentioned gas prices at 4$ pr gallon, for me this sounds cheap, so I did a little calculating.. Result, I pay about double the price.

In denmark we do have free health care, but the goverment have been talking about taking that away for years. I hope that I don't get sick when/if that happends..

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@justthatgood
I also have a "low paid" job, don't have acces to public transportation, can't use my bicycle to get to my job.
I have to drive an old ugly VW Golf Diesel every day to work, just because it can drive about 45 miles per gallon. That's a car that costs about 1600$, witch is absolutly low cost in Denmark.
But I manage to pay my house, car and everyday expences. I'm not rich, don't have the modern clothes or other things that some of my friends does.
I don't complain, I just mean, don't think that I have better economy than you :-)

A friend of mine recently moved about 30 miles to get a new job, they fired 5 people where he worked before. We also have to live with changing jobs all the time. I'm just happy that I work the same place since october 2001, great job but low/average pay.

Anyway, sorry. I believe this is off topic.
I think you'll regret selling the C128T, but sometimes that's what to do  :boohoo:

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First of all..
@Rearumloa - I'm glad to hear that you keed your tower projekt :-)

@pkillo
My ugly Golf
Last week, I spent the most af a day welding (I think it's called that), because of rust. My drivers seat was on it's way out of the bottom  :roll:
It's a former post-car, imported from germany. Used a lot..
It is WITHOUT turbo!
The left door has a different collour, the interior will newer look good again, rust stains over most of the car, etc.. What I mean: No way I'm gonna get more for that car than I gave for it ;-)
But it is wery cheap for me to own, compared to a lot of other cars. A good thing is that I can repair most things myself, lucky for me there has been surprisingly few repairs.

FYI - Air and fuel filters are changed, and the mpg (in Denmark: km/l) are the same as ather Golf Diesel owners that I have heard of. 18-22km/l

A Lupo are an economic car, but not wery practical. You can't have a trailer with a Lupo. Is it called a trailer? I hope you know what I mean. The trunk is wery little.
A friend of my sold his Lupo because it was wery expensive in repairs.

Again, sorry to be off topic  :roll:

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@pkillo
I need the trunk, I live on a former farm, I have to transport materials somehow ;-)

I'm not afraid of rust, but I'm afraid of periodic control. Every second year a car in Denmark have to be controlled and get a certificate, if not, then the police takes the number plate.

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@pkillo
Okay  :-o
I'm surprised to hear that! I thought Denmark was one of the few countries that had car inspection. I know that there are other countries that don't require that.. Until 1998 we only had to have our car inspectet, if we bought one that had not been inspected for the past year.

There are different kind of "needs" for a car, i often have to transport different kind af goods with my car, I also need to have a every day car that I will not worry if it gets a little dent of scratch.
But I agree, most people just need a car for transport from A to B, and I also agree that it should be an economic car, to save the gas and save the enviroment.
I bought that old '87 Golf because it was cheap to buy, cheap to buy spare parts for and more economic than most cars in DK. But still.. Most people overhere spend over 100.000kr (about 21.000USD) to buy a car. The tax for a new car over here are over the double of the car value. My boss spend about 200.000USD to buy one of thoose "big" Audi's!

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@pkillo
Yes, that is a lot of money, I will newer buy a new car. I feel that I pay enougt tax through diesel/gasoline.
There are also registration tax, part of the insurance are tax, and so on. Even if I buy oil, a battery or some other car products, there are tax. 42% of my pay are tax.
After all thoose taxes, I begin to wonder what danish kroner (DKR) are worth...
Anyway, I don't feel poor or rich, I live well.
The reason that I began to argue about the gas price was that you should know that "I don't think that you have fewer money than I do" ;-)

We both have good things and bad things. I don't know.. Would you have free hospitals and then pay the double gas price?
I'm not sure what is best. You have some kind af healt insurance, or?

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@pkillo
Wow, that's just too much!! I feel luckey, I have not needed a doctor or a hospital in several years. Except for a dentist, wich I have to pay for myself. Dentists do overcharge here, about 1000kr / 200USD just for pulling out two of my teeth.. That's under 15 minutes of work!! I spend about 1400kr / 300USD on a filling, just under 30minutes of work. I have an insurance that covers about half of the dentist bill, but still.. Overcharge!! The same in the US, just worse, I can see that doctors/hospitals really overcharge.
In my opinion, life saving healt care / surgery should be payed over the taxes. It is human lives we are talking about!
But I don't know what the tax rates are in the US.
We have to pay most of our medicine ourselves, medicine are wery expensive, that is the same as for you.

Still, 800USD are the same as some pay for health expenses here in DK. It is ONLY the hospitals that are free.
Medicine, dentists and so on, we still have to pay for
My mom had cancer (no worry, that is years ago, after surgery she is okay) she was fired because of she was sick. My dad died several years ago and my brother and I was about 7 abd 12 years back then. Low income, rent, two kids and so on, and medicine she had to pay herself. I have been a part of wery bad financial times myself, I have nothing to complaín about now, but it is absolutly not funny :-(