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Old 13th Jun 2019, 6:51 pm   #6
ViperSan
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Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: Manchester, UK
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Default Re: Dual Function for VIC20 super expander cartridge

Not really Sirius ...I have a Commodore Bias I suppose ..since I once wrote commercially sold games for Commodore machines through a local company Mr Micro.
6502 was my CPU of choice.
But for me all 8 bit computers are interesting and deserve reverence.
and now I've also extended my interests to include Amiga 16 bit machines.
All that said ..
My list so far of restored compters include
A PET 4032 and 8050 dual floppy drive
4x Commodore 64s and 2 floppy drives (1540 and 1541)
3 VIC20s and if I can find another damaged unit ..I have a spare motherboard
2 Commodore Plus 4s
1 Commodore C16
1 x Apple IIe
1 x Apple II Europlus
and several floppy drives
The latter is particularly interesting as I converted it back to produce colour via NTSC monitor ...and I literally built a keyboard for it using non standard parts.
I'll replace this if I ever find a genuine Keyboard

and a couple of rebuilt speccy 48ks ...one of which has a proper keyboard..and dual boot original and gosh wonderful.

I have many many laptops from DOS to win XP
One in particular is ..or was a Toshiba T3200SX which had a smashed plasma display.
So to get it in working order I fitted it with a modern LCD screen

I also have a Toshiba T5200/100 amber plasma screen which was heavily modded to include an extra 16 bit ISA slot
A later floppy drive 1.44 as opposed to the original 720k
A dual PCMCIA card and ports
More ram using a modded EDO 72 pin sim as the original ram is rare as hens teth
A faster CPU ..to make it capable of running win95 (originally win 3.1 was barely do-able)
etc
so you see ..all is fair game to me ..
I prefer originality hardware unmodded...but sometimes needs must.
rgds
VS
I'll post another thread with some photos at some point if anyone want to see anything specific ?

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