Didier Derny wrote: > I was not aware that the vic20 cr existed - looks great I think the stealth factor in that the first two-prong and the later DIN-style VIC-20's look the same except for the power connector and power button, makes a lot of people unaware about the different models, in particular if you consider two-prongs with the Helvetica keyboard. To add even more confusion, there is a difference between US/Japanese two-prongs and European two-prongs in the dimensions of the connector, but of course in that case there is a NTSC/PAL difference as well. I don't know which out of the two-prong and DIN-style VIC's sold the biggest numbers or whenever the switch occurred, but given the C64 was released in the fall of 1982, I'd imagine the VIC-20CR to have appeared no later than early 1983, in a cost saving measure. In my first stint of VIC-20 usage in the 80's, I only saw the CR model and it was not until I picked up collecting again in the mid 1990's that I came across a two-prong model. Best regards Anders Carlsson Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2015-04-03 22:00:06
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