Re: First VIC 20 European motherboard

Second guessing commodore manufacturing is difficult as they would 
literally do anything to ship something out of the door.

Commodore took vic-20's as trade-ins for c64's, but they still sold the 
vic-20. If there was still demand in europe for the vic20 then it 
wouldn't surprise me if commodore took ntsc boards out of the trash and 
converted them to pal boards so they could sell them.

On the other hand it could be something that was hacked by someone that 
had an NTSC vic-20 but wanted a PAL one.

On 21/08/2015 08:14, Anders Carlsson wrote:
>
> I have read in then contemporary magazines that the PAL 6561 chip was 
> quite delayed, which means it took a while between the US launch and 
> the European one, and that availability at first was much less than 
> demand. Could it be so that Commodore at first adopted the NTSC 
> motherboard (clock etc) to PAL, and while waiting for chips they 
> redesigned the board so the number of units with the older board were 
> very few as the new board got ready in time for when they could start 
> shipping computers?


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