<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rainer Buchty</b> <<a href="mailto:rainer@buchty.net">rainer@buchty.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>Ebay!<br>>I got 4 C64's for 20$<br><br>*Working*? Then the prices must have dropped extraordinarily over the<br>last years... (Ok, depending on which statistics you believe, there are<br>up to 20 million C64 out there.)
<br><br>Anyway, the C64 is also a great resource for DIY, in case you got a<br>defective one (mostly related to a dead PLA or one of the RAMs having<br>died). Apart from the SID you get<br><br>- videochip with up to 320x200 resolution (must be bus-master in a 6502
<br> system; for other bus timings you need an arbitration logic);<br> unfortunately 15kHz timing, so no good with current monitors<br><br>- 2 I/O chips with serial line, timer, real-time clock, and 8-bit port.<br> Careful with this guy, it likes to die from static. Always buffer it.
<br><br>- CPU with separate 6-bit port (useful for memory banking)<br><br>Rainer<br></blockquote></div><br>Yeah, if i end up with ten million commodore boxes i'll have to do comething cool with them.<br>
Imagine a beowulf cluster of them!<br>
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<h1 style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2">from ebay: "This is a Commodore 64 Original Computer Keyboard" </font></h1>
<h1 style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2">*just* the keyboard?</font></h1>
:)<br>-- <br>jared foster<br><br>"...How can you love a square goldfish?"<br>D. Manus Pinkwater, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency