Re: "Commodore 64 Prototype Project"

From: Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 23:44:20 -0700
Message-Id: <56BEE2D8-8E08-4278-978E-0AC42DC52E58@root.org>
On May 5, 2012, at 10:58 PM, Jim Brain wrote:

> On 5/5/2012 9:27 PM, Robin Harbron wrote:
>> Anyone know what this strange item is?  http://www.ebay.ca/itm/270963998077
>> 
>> From the item description:
>> 
>> "This unit was great found in Mountain View (Silicon Valley, CA) approx over 15 years.
>> 
>> The retired Commodore Engineer told us that this system was use for the project of Commodore back years.
>> 
>> Other than that we have lack of info about what the project it had used for, may be some Commodore collectors know about it."
>> 
>> It has a Rev. C C-64 motherboard so it's clearly not a C-64 prototype :)
>> 
>> Robin.
>> 
>> 
> I'm game to fund buying it, if someone in CA wants to pick it up (no way am I paying 150 just to ship it) and do some investigation with it.

It looks like it might be a production line machine. Perhaps they used this to test other devices, like CPUs or VIC chips?

-Nate


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