On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Nicolas Welte wrote: > > The PET is a calculator keyboarded 2001 with 320008 board (i.e. 6540 > ROMs and 6550 RAMs) and 8k RAM and I think the first ROM version. It > seems to be working, but some keys don't work, others respond only when > pressed hardly. This was a constant problem with those keyboards. You will have to take it apart and clean the contacts. > The C64 gives me a headache, it's the worst mix of different components > I ever saw. I suspect someone at an official Commodore service point > made this unit from parts, since it still has an undamaged warranty > seal, but at least some oddities remain: It is a brown breadbox (newer > low profile version with port names imprinted on the back) with white > keyboard (last version with graph symbols on top of keys). So far this > sounds like a normal Aldi-C64. But this one has a C64A board installed > and carries the type label "C64C ser.no. DA4 224462 B1 made in Germany". > The sticker doesn't look like peeled off a real C64C and then put onto > that machine, someone with a set of spare stickers or a good talent to > remove stickers must've done this. This is probably a reconditioned unit. Commodore sold replacement labels to authorized service dealers. - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi.
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