Silver auction on Marktplaats?

Posted on 21 February 2018 by Frank

22/02/2018

Bidding currently at 67 euro, two disk drives included, a lot of disks, joystick and books.

Update: Marvin was selling a silver KU on Ebay as well, openimg bid was 150 euro..and the silver wasn’t sold yesterday! Just keeping a close eye on current pricing

20/02/2018

Back in the days, all RMA repairs, when the C64 went back to Commodore for repairs, the silver label was often replaced  with the new rainbow label. I got one of these myself, rainbow label with KU-14194HB  board with a low serial. But with some obvious repairs to the power switch.

Yesterday this one came up for auction. Low serial, older keyboard, but rainbow label. I guess there is a fair chance this is a KU-14194HB board, and therefor a silver. You can check the Commodore Registry to see in which range people registered a KU-14194HB board with rainbow label, just over the 10k!

You will never know if there has been all kind of repairs to this C64, or even a replacement of the motherboard. It is a wild guess, but considering the rest of the set, you will have a fair chance on owning a KU-14194HB board. Shame of that reset button in the casing!

 

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Boxed Final Cartridge III

Posted on 18 February 2018 by Frank

18/02/2018

Offer accepted. Nice, the final cartridge alone is worth the bid. Will sell the Commodore, hopefully it doesn’t need any repairs

18/02/2018

Another one offered today on Marktplaats. Not quit interested in another Commodore 64,  but in that boxed Final Cartridge. One was sold last month for 60 euro, offerings on eBay are from 60-90 euro. Hopefully i can add this one to the collection!

 

 

 

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Commodore 64 – mint condition

Posted on 18 February 2018 by Frank

Couldn’t resist. Offered 85, we’ll see if I will be adding this on to the collection!

 

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Compucase 64d Repair II

Posted on 18 February 2018 by Frank

18/02/2018

Discussed the power issues with someone yesterday…he advised me to take a better look at the power supply. I checked the unit again this morning..and again 3.7/4.0v max…The issue has not been resolved!

Measured continuity on the power cable. It’s ok, 230v, so no problem with that cable. Time to take a better look at the power supply of the Compucase.

Check the input and output of the regulator…out 4.9v , which is pretty ok.  Only four components on the PCB…I guess that big capacitor could be causing problems! Need to replace that one to start with.

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Programming the Commodore64 (Raeto Collin West) & M3 Mouse Boxed

Posted on 17 February 2018 by Frank

17/02/2018

Original plan was to hook up with Dion to go to the HCC Commodore meeting. Due to some miscommunication and planning, i couldn’t join him, and we plan for another meeting.

But..he was selling his book, to me 🙂 For 40 euro. And he had a boxed mouse…and we traded it with some unboxed Commodore mouse I had (1351, and another one). He actually uses the mouse 🙂

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1351 Mouse boxed and VIC20/C64 powersupply box

Posted on 17 February 2018 by Frank

17/02/2018

Just stole the picture of the 1351 from internet. Bought for 50 euro the mouse and a boxed, new, replacement power supply for the VIC20/C64. Just fun to have.  Should have bought them when I was at Marvin’s place in Harlingen last week, from his Retro Supermarket 🙂

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Turbo 50 and MK Action Replay VI

Posted on 17 February 2018 by Frank

17/02/2018

Bought these today, will be shipped by a dutch seller. He bought a larger retro collection some time ago, with a lot of Commodore stuff as well. Which is not his cup of tea. 75 euro, shipping included.

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Compucase 64d Repair

Posted on 17 February 2018 by Frank

17/02/2018

I go myself a Compucase 64d…symptoms..black screen and test cartridge showed ram issues and a failing PLA. Bummer. Powermonitor showed no current, and 5volt line far outside the tolerance…3.6volt is a bit low I guess.

Opened the case today, fairly easy and simple. Removed the motherboard, connected it to known working power unit (with powersaver) and fired it up..with the test cartridge. Everything working fine!, removed the test cartridge, and my beloved C64 start screen showing no issues at all. Both 5volt and 9volt within tolerance (thanks to the powermonitor from bluebolt12, look for him on ebay.com.au).

 

So….at least that means that there was no power failure at all, at least not with fried RAM and PLA as result!

Removed both 1541’s, one has a speedloader build in and a parallel cable. Will test both units tomorrow.

Then I connected the main board with powersaver back to the power unit of the Compucase….same problem again!. I removed the power cable of the unit…reconnect it again…and I got at least the Commodore screen again. With less ram…and slowly all kinds of characters appearing at random on the screen. Time to replace that cable…and voila…a working Compucase! Looks like something was wrong with that (longer) power cable, losing so much on the 5v line that the main board was failing. Seems like solved. Will do a longer test tomorrow.

 

 

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Compucase 64d II

Posted on 15 February 2018 by Frank

15/02/2018

Went to harlingen yesterday to meet with Marvin. Nice guy, nice conversation about collecting childhood dreams. Impressive storage and workplace he’s got there with loads of retrocomputing stuff. Picked up my Compucase 64d and bought a powercartridge boxed (later edition).

Car loaded..needed to get some stuff for Patrick as well, monitor, c64 with speedloader, empty disk boxes, cartridges and a VIC1020.

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Turned on the Compucase 64d…black screen. #@)(#)@($ Test cartridge showed failed RAM and at least the PLA. So….probably the powersupply fried the board. Investigate later this weekend….

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Commodore SFX series ; soundexpander and keyboard

Posted on 13 February 2018 by Frank

13/02/2018

Seller asked my to place my bid online….next day the keyboard had status reserved…contacted the seller, told me he made a mistake in reply, and sold it to somebody else which also wanted the three monitors he was selling. Grrrrrrrrr

12/02/2018

The SFX series was just offered on Marktplaats. I’ll give it a try, would be nice to add. Starting bid 75 euro. Complete as it seems!

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