QuantumII
Veteran Member
Hi,
Long time no see, everybody! (I have been quite busy the last year), but now there's a reason to be back!
Yesterday I went on my usual lurking trip down to the e-waste behind electronics store nearby, and what do I see?
Some moron had thrown away his whole Commodore collection, it seems.
What I found was:
- 1x Commodore PET 2001
- 2x Breadbox style C64's. One dark in color, and one light.
- 1x Commodore C128
- 1x Tape drive (clone of some sort)
- 1x 1514 Floppy drive
- California games in original box, complete with manual and "California speak" guide.
- 1x Original box for an Amiga 500 style C64. Nothing inside, unfortunately.
- 1x Original commodore joystick
- 1x World Games tape
The bad:
The person who threw this away probably have an issue with people using stuff after him, as he had CUT THE CABLES on the power supplies, and the cables were nowhere to be found. Both the C128 PSU and the C64 PSU. I still picked them up, as I can always make cables, but MAN; why the -beep- would one do something like this?
Argh!
The status of the stuff as of now:
The C128 and the C64's are untested , because of the above reason. The only C64 PSU I have already is for the newer style Amiga look-and-feel one. I don't know if they are compatible, and I did not have time to check yesterday evening.
The floppy drive had a blown fuse, but it's probably OK.
The tape drive has a broken REC key and PAUSE key, but otherwise it seems OK. The reason for the broken plastic tabs is that there were a f-ing waffle iron smashed on top of it.
The games look fine, and probably works.
The PET:
It currently gives a horizontal bright line, so the CRT needs some work in the deflection area.
At least the HV works, the horizontal deflection works, and the CRT is not blown, so this may be a case of a bad connection or something in the vertical deflection circuit. It has nearly 4 decades of dust inside, so I need to disassemble everything and go over it.
I don't know if the mainboard boots or not, but I would guess that it currently does not. I am planning to clean the whole board and reseat every chip after I have fixed the CRT.
Man, the PET a space-age looking device And that funny casette player, which obviously is a re-used external one, adapted to fit inside the casing.
Misc:
I have also picked up some IBM AT's over the year, as well as some older Power PC based MAC's. The space at home is limited, so I am storing most of the IBM stuff at work, as well as the PPC MAC's.
EDIT, The PET looks exactly like this one:
Long time no see, everybody! (I have been quite busy the last year), but now there's a reason to be back!
Yesterday I went on my usual lurking trip down to the e-waste behind electronics store nearby, and what do I see?
Some moron had thrown away his whole Commodore collection, it seems.
What I found was:
- 1x Commodore PET 2001
- 2x Breadbox style C64's. One dark in color, and one light.
- 1x Commodore C128
- 1x Tape drive (clone of some sort)
- 1x 1514 Floppy drive
- California games in original box, complete with manual and "California speak" guide.
- 1x Original box for an Amiga 500 style C64. Nothing inside, unfortunately.
- 1x Original commodore joystick
- 1x World Games tape
The bad:
The person who threw this away probably have an issue with people using stuff after him, as he had CUT THE CABLES on the power supplies, and the cables were nowhere to be found. Both the C128 PSU and the C64 PSU. I still picked them up, as I can always make cables, but MAN; why the -beep- would one do something like this?
Argh!
The status of the stuff as of now:
The C128 and the C64's are untested , because of the above reason. The only C64 PSU I have already is for the newer style Amiga look-and-feel one. I don't know if they are compatible, and I did not have time to check yesterday evening.
The floppy drive had a blown fuse, but it's probably OK.
The tape drive has a broken REC key and PAUSE key, but otherwise it seems OK. The reason for the broken plastic tabs is that there were a f-ing waffle iron smashed on top of it.
The games look fine, and probably works.
The PET:
It currently gives a horizontal bright line, so the CRT needs some work in the deflection area.
At least the HV works, the horizontal deflection works, and the CRT is not blown, so this may be a case of a bad connection or something in the vertical deflection circuit. It has nearly 4 decades of dust inside, so I need to disassemble everything and go over it.
I don't know if the mainboard boots or not, but I would guess that it currently does not. I am planning to clean the whole board and reseat every chip after I have fixed the CRT.
Man, the PET a space-age looking device And that funny casette player, which obviously is a re-used external one, adapted to fit inside the casing.
Misc:
I have also picked up some IBM AT's over the year, as well as some older Power PC based MAC's. The space at home is limited, so I am storing most of the IBM stuff at work, as well as the PPC MAC's.
EDIT, The PET looks exactly like this one:
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