I read in the recent Donald Pleasance book that there were two C65s planned. The cheaper model was going to have no disk drive and only use the 1565 externally. Sounds like this is the prototype of that model. -Nate > On Dec 13, 2018, at 1:08 PM, Steve Gray <sjgray@rogers.com> wrote: > > Fred said that this particular unit was for checking the fit of the ports and that they were finalizing the regular C65 at the time. It is a prototype and obviously not the final design. Looking closely you can see the remnants of the normal C65's back ports. I'm thinking the normal case was just cut down and ports filled? I'm alway curious how a machine is designed. Do they start with schematic, produce some boards then design a case around it, or is there an overall case design to start and the board must fit into that. Hopefully Fred can give us more details. > > Steve > > > On Thursday, December 13, 2018, 7:50:43 a.m. EST, smf <smf@null.net> wrote: > > > It's clearly the wrong case for the board. > > There is a trapdoor slot that goes nowhere & the port cut outs on the > back don't match either (good luck plugging something into the cartridge > port). > > I prefer that case to the one with the awkwardly placed internal drive > though. > > On 13/12/2018 03:19, Steve Gray wrote: > > No, its a C65 case with the floppy part chopped off... ;-) > > Steve >Received on 2018-12-14 04:00:03
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