German train station C64 dies after 20 years in service, looking for someone to repair it.

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Original article HERE

Please announcement consider in the Dortmunder main station strikes a Commodore 64 for twenty years was nearly forgotten located it in a chamber in the Dortmunder main station. For day it fulfilled complainless its service to day, but now it kicked: A Commodore 64, a Computerrelikt of the 80's, paralyzed all indicating panels.

1982 came the C64 on the market and became a best seller, its fans called it whether its form affectionately "bread box". More than ten million copies were sold, three million of it in Germany. One of these three million landed in the Dortmunder main station. As part of the plant for the controlling of the indicating panels it rested in its Kaemmerchen, "a completely normal computer with keyboard and screen", as a course speaker said.

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But now the old Moehrchen gave up, apparent finally its spirit with the amazing life span. Since then it means in the Dortmunder main station: "request announcement consider!" The indicating panels are blind, nothing go more. Course travelers must listen exerted, if they want to go surely, at the correct track to stand and to course woman employee Mareike Heydecke spend eight hours on the day with reading out announcements. No condition actually, but the work-tired C64 places the station before an enormous problem: A new indicator plant would cost three million euro. Those may not spend anybody, because the station is to be converted anyway soon completely.

Where does the expert from Munich remain? Thus now all wait an expert from Munich for the allegedly only man, who can bring the "bread box" back in course. That was expected already two days ago, did not arrive however so far not at Dortmund. That is however only geruechteweise because of it that nobody knows in Dortmund, at which track it to be fetched would have.

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mdma wrote:
Commodore made PC's 20 years ago?

Yup i have one i can't give away.

You want it?

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the_leander wrote:
Whats the postage going to be like on this thing out of curiosity? Are we talking sparcstation build quality (as in would survive being hit with a tank shell and wieghs about the same) or something slightly less robust?

Postage would be extremely hefty, it's one of the sherman tank models. Here's a pic I borrowed from the net.


That's the problem, no one wants to pony up shipping costs on this thing. I hate to send it to the dump as it must be getting rare by this point.