Anyone here interested in Commodore 8-bits and ancient PC's?

Mon Aug 9 17:18:59 PDT 2004

Quoting William R Ward (bill at wards.net):
> I have a storage locker and I want to stop having one.  Trouble is,
> it's got stuff in it that I can't bear to just throw away.
> 
> When I was a kid I used to beg and plead my parents to buy all the
> latest peripherals and accessories for my Commodore VIC-20, and later
> 64 and 128, computer.  They usually refused, citing the cost.
...
> But, if someone wants to play with it, I'll happily give it away.  Let
> me know if you or someone you know wants some of the best 8-bit
> computers ever made!

Pfah!  My (working and plugged in) Apple // and CoCo II are REAL computers.
The coco II runs OS/9 - a multitasking, 64k OS designed around the 6809.

The CoCo was a motorola 3 chip set implented by Radio Shack.  It
happened to have a "game cartridge port" that is all of the CPU
pins except NMI - this made it a great hardware test platform.
Also runs Forth.
Which is great for hardware debugging.
At $5/pop at garage sale, it was ok to make a mistake and let the magic smoke out.

> PS: I have old PC stuff too.  Mostly 286 and 386 vintage.  Nothing
Not sure how useful 286 was in 1986 either...