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Diary blog of ramblings and adventures in collecting and reliving childhood memories.
Just my own little place on the web about my hobby. Stories about selling, repairs, buying and the people behind that. Reporting from the Netherlands, and started collecting again way too late.
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Monthly Archives: December 2017
C64c – old board edition – mint
30 December 2017 Last addition to my collection this year. Just posted on Marktplaats, previous owner Peter from Zevenaar was selling his childhood Commodore. Within half an hour after the ad appeared I bought it for 50 euro’s, and did … Continue reading
Late Christmas gift from Amazon
The holy bible of Commodore repairs. In mint condition Art Margolis “Troubleshooting & Repairing your Commodore 64”, and Robert C. Brenner, “Commodore 64 Troubleshooting and Repair Guide”. Last one is a previous public library book, which is not quit in … Continue reading
Silver label’s on Ebay
I know pricing on eBay is for specific items often 2 or 3 times of what it probably would do in the Netherlands. Currently there are two “silver labels” for sale. One with a 326298 board for 700 euro, and … Continue reading
Silver board repair (KU-14194HB) Part 2 – I screwed up. Did I?
After not been handling any de/soldering stations for over 20 year…why the hell did you think you can do nice and good repair immediately :). So i got my spare practice 64c board, which I am trying to desolder IC’s…with … Continue reading
Demotivators for collecting
Sometimes you run into amazing pages of other collectors, probably collection for over 20 years or more. Or you just run into reference pages about specific parts of the Commodore 65, like the disk drives. Today my read of the … Continue reading
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Hoarding….a car full and a set of 10 x Commodore 64
In October an add was placed on Marktplaats, for sale 10 commodores, no pictures or anything. Seller was from Boxtel. I gave him call about what he was expecting for pricing. I offered 200 euro and explained that a working … Continue reading
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Tagged Cartridges, Commodore 64, Joysticks, Silver
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Lost auctions or over payed auctions
Probably every collector will remember the buying disasters. Paying up simply too much, or getting something for a working price which does not pass the powering up test 🙂 Or just not getting something because the offer wasn’t right. Well … Continue reading
Silver board repair (KU-14194HB) Part 1
In the last months i bought some sets of Commodore stuff which both contained, to my surprise, a silver label with a KU board. One of them was working except the SID (and had a rainbow label, probably due to … Continue reading
Assembly64 – keeping your SD2IEC up2date
One of the first things i bought for my Commodore this year was a SD2IEC and the Epyx Fastload Reloaded cartridge. Use if for the occasional game playing and to bypass the awful loading times with traditional tape and disk. … Continue reading
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Powerplay set Commodore 64 for sale, sadly incomplete
Today, on tweedehands.be, a Powerplay box…contacted the seller but the games and joystick are missing. It’s only the box and the C64c itself. I guess that is the difference between 50 and 150 euro or even more. Seller is moving … Continue reading