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Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« on: October 29, 2012, 02:21:30 AM »
I know it's NOT an Amiga, but it's still Commodore AND the prototype portable A500 was built in a modified SX-64 case, so what the heck.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/110970309887
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2012, 02:54:49 AM »
Wow, good price on that.

But I'm more interested in learning about this prototype portable A500! Never heard those details before.
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2012, 02:56:39 AM »
Quote from: curtis;712972
I know it's NOT an Amiga, but it's still Commodore AND the prototype portable A500 was built in a modified SX-64 case, so what the heck.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/110970309887

Man Curtis, i was looking for a sx-64 and there you are in Amarillo.
good price too.

I have kind of been missing my old sx-64.. really cool machines.

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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2012, 03:14:36 AM »
Not a bad price.

@mechy: Amarillo, eh?  I haven't been there since 2006.  Still growing?  (Thread hijack in progress... hehehe)
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2012, 03:22:27 AM »
when i was a kid we had one of those!

That is going to be a real collectors item one day if its not already. I think it was the first color portable computer....
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2012, 04:32:07 AM »
Quote from: Matt_H;712976
Wow, good price on that.

But I'm more interested in learning about this prototype portable A500! Never heard those details before.


http://obligement.free.fr/articles/amiga_prototypes.php

http://obligement.free.fr/articles/amiga_portables.php
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2012, 12:39:07 PM »
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Not a bad price.

@mechy: Amarillo, eh?  I haven't been there since 2006.  Still growing?  (Thread hijack in progress... hehehe)

No idea, that is where curtis is ;)

i am in central texas near killeen/forthood.
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2012, 02:39:47 PM »
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2012, 05:56:57 PM »
Well, it's already taken!

Don't think it made it half an hour before someone snatched up the BIN pricing.

Makes me wonder if I should've gone a tad higher.  Oh well, such is life.

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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2012, 06:08:12 PM »
My favorite 8-bit Commodore machine, and yeah, the keyboards alone are probably worth $40-$50 apiece.
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2012, 08:13:23 PM »
I used to have an SX way back when. Nice machines. I just got back into the 8 bit world with a C-128. Sure wish I had seen your auction.
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2012, 10:44:07 PM »
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I used to have an SX way back when. Nice machines. I just got back into the 8 bit world with a C-128. Sure wish I had seen your auction.


You would've had to looked quickly!  From list to sold was less than 30 minutes!

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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2012, 01:28:31 AM »
Hope you have as much luck as I did!

Also, don't blame you for the thread hijack!  : )
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Re: Commodore SX-64 (Yes, I know!)
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2012, 04:12:17 AM »
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But I'm more interested in learning about this prototype portable A500!

Amiga engineer Dale Luck brought his SX-500 a couple of times to the Vintage Computer Festival in California.  A photo of it is at

http://www.floodgap.com/guests/robert/

Click on the appropriate link,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
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