Re: C64C case production molds resurfaced

From: Clockmeister <*clockmeister_at_internode.on.net*> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:11:20 +0800 Message-ID: <54FE1A88.9090806@internode.on.net> · clockmeister_at_internode.on.net

On 10/03/2015 4:15 AM, Rhialto wrote:
> On Wed 04 Mar 2015 at 08:03:54 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Some guy in the US recently stumbled across a pair of original C64C
>> case production molds in a warehouse that were about to get scrapped.
> Interestingly, if you look at the photos in the updates,
> https://d15chbti7ht62o.cloudfront.net/assets/003/396/994/c6166ddad34394f2d5a170a45bf38dc1_large.jpg?1425681429
> I see that the top and bottom halves are indeed connected with screws.
> However, the case I have here has no screws, but squeezy hooks, which
> you need to push all three more less at the same time to open the case.
>
> So apparently these moulds were redesigned at least once.
>
> -Olaf.

The case with the screws is the most common here. I'm pretty sure the 
case that clips together is the last and most cost reduced revision.

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