Commodore SX-64 repair and trivia

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• BI

  @Bijoux_DerWunderCatsen · 2 years ago

  The local university library had one with a wonky fdd.  You could only check it out for 1 hour and 50 minutes, once a day.  That meant you were sat in smoky room with a chair and small table.  You were not allowed to play games, the fdd only worked sometimes.  I eventually got banned for "gaming the system" by coming with a friend and both of us sharing it over 2 consecutive check out periods and they wouldn't let us bring in an extra chair, so one of us had to stand.  That's how I learned BASIC and eventually went on to study CS.

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• LE

  @leroyjenkinsss1767 · 3 years ago

  This dude really is an oldschool uber nerd in the best possible way. He's the real deal lol That's part of the reason I enjoy this channel so much

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• SP

  @Sparky1701 · 3 years ago

  My biggest regret was sending this to the thrift store 16 years ago.  Great video!

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• MR

  @mraudio · 3 years ago

  I remember seeing these stacked at our local GEMCO department store back in the day...   They were marked down to $399 at that point,   and the stack never got any smaller.   Then one day,  I noticed the price had dropped to $299 and about half were gone.   Impulsively,   I grabbed one of the last ones and used it for a number of years.   It's gone now,  but unfortunately,  the impulses remain...

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• WR

  @wrexhammusic · 1 month ago

  This was back when "portable" meant slightly less chance of throwing your back out if you try to lug it around

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• LM

  @LMacNeill · 3 years ago

  Oh man -- I'm totally jealous.  I've wanted one of these when I first saw one in '85 or '86 (don't remember precisely) when I was 15 or 16.  The mother of a friend of mine had one -- she used it as a MIDI controller for a band she was in, believe it or not.  Always wanted one, but never got the opportunity to get one, and now they're too expensive and rare.  Oh well.  I'll just have to live vicariously through YouTube videos.  🙂

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• SC

  @ScrapKing73 · 3 years ago

  “As you can see there are five separate boards in here.”<br><br>There… are… four… boards!

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• TH

  @thomashollinger1418 · 2 years ago

  At one time I collected three of these SX-64s. &nbsp;Fixed them all and worked great. I donated them to a fellow collector many years ago. I wished I still had my collection.

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• TH

  @TheBigBentley911 · 3 years ago

  I had one of these when I was a kid. As a small skinny nerd, I had to lug this thing from a yard sale 2 blocks away from my house. The thing seemed like it weighed as much as I did at the time. If only I had known what I truly had, I would have never thrown it out years later. I do remember being amazed by GeOS and playing International Karate on it.

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• RK

  @rklein · 3 years ago

  There was a guy in our copy circle back in the day who had a DX and his cousin worked at Commodore. Also, his friend had the SX and talk about the ultimate cracking/copying machines, well at least for back then. They would also carry around their own monitors as well. After playing with it all night, another one of the guys in our circle built his own from a double thick brief case. It worked. We affectionately called the two with the portables &quot;The Luggable Twins&quot; because it seemed like they were always lugging their stuff around and let&apos;s face it the portable was not very portable at all. I remember someone wanting to convert an Osborne into an SX but not sure it ever happened. Good times!

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• GE

  @geekwithsocialskills · 3 years ago

  I love my my Commodore SX-64. I&apos;ve owned mine since the 1990&apos;s and purchased it from a family friend, complete with the original box, accessories, etc.

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• CR

  @crazykittenvideos855 · 3 years ago

  As a kid I had two C64’s one donated by a friend and loved them dearly. Never heard of the SX-64 before. So glad you got it up and running again and there are good folks out there still supporting this amazing tech!

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