rittwage
Veteran Member
Keep in mind, the EGP hub will re-pack the units, and it seems they are notorious for packing it WORSE than the original seller. It may not be their fault at all... but eBay will still screw them either way.
<< BIG SNIP >>
This experience does suck though. Perhaps I should not add an SX64 to my collection after all. To be honest, after seeing it up close, its really a cheap piece of junk (durability wise). Have to be honest here. Its no wonder this thing never sold for $999 almost 30 years ago. Buy my math, that is almost 3 GRAND in inflation adjusted dollars.
Just saw this thread.
I'm curious... are you going to rebuild it, or sell it for parts? I could use a handle hinge assembly, if you decide to go that way.
I've never been able to wrap my head around the idea of the C64 as a business computer, which makes the marketing of the SX-64 as an "Executive" machine particularly mind-boggling; I guess that people did *use* C64s to run their home businesses but I don't remember ever seeing one in a real office. Perhaps they were more popular in that role outside the US? The SX-64 is a really *cool* machine (I was more in the Atari 800 camp when I was a kid but I certainly wouldn't have spit in the face of someone giving me one for Christmas) but to this day I still don't quite understood what Commodore thought the target market was. One of my Elementatry schools used C64s in their computer labs, I suppose it would have been an awesome machine for the teachers to use, but that's not really an "executive" position.
But serious enough to be used by the U.S. government and the U.S. military.The C64 must have been considered laughable in the "real" business world.
But serious enough to be used by the U.S. government and the U.S. military.