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Anyone speak Hungarian??
This looks like it could be an interesting lead -

http://bithunter.freeweb.hu/hardware.htm


He has a boxed synthesiser with manual!
Also notice the strange little adapter - I presume so you can also plug it into a c64???

Its about half way down the page..

There most definately was a tape version, I remember playing it. I have no idea what it was actually called though

Jeff-20 wrote:But kids actually seem a little more sturdy. They don't have parts (keys!) falling off every now and then.

Thats true..Vic's can't be fixed with a couple of band-aids

Swap your daughter for the Vic. Vic's arent in production, whereas its a pretty simple job to get a new kid. You can make as many of those as you like.

Thrift stores in Australia used to be a great place to find cheap "retro" consoles and games. In the past I have got some great bargains. For example, a mint C128D for $5. However, in the last couple of years government regulations have meant thrift stores can no longer sell electrical it...

ah yes, the days before Stargate
Check out that hair!

Ruud, maybe you can program one of the PETs to run her beautician equipment.. or at least make a program to envision how the customer will look like with a certain hair style etc. Ehh.. I forgot that those 80'ties computers not always excel in producing high resolution, life-like colour images from...

lol..at least youre in the same country as the expo. I remember a year or two back Nick Coplin organised one here in Melbourne, but I couldnt go unfortunately

yeah..they have a real clack to them

Can anyone point me at a Vic time line - specifically where they were made and approximate dates? I just bought a boxed Vic on eBay for the princely sum of $15.00, it looks like its a very early one. Its got the really square-ish keys and letters on the keytops, and the power input on the side is a ...

I'd love to go...but that distance thing is a real problem

Do you mean the TV adapter thingy?
Thats one thing the other systems didnt have asa far as I know, the GG had a television adapter that plugged into the cartridge slot

Probably just age...I have had a similar problem with some of my old brown C64's as well

Many many years ago I had a PET 8032SK and an 8080 (I think) disk drive - the drive was in a dirty great steel case and was extremely heavy...it had two dive mechanisms and from memory was a double sided drive as well? The BASIC on the 8032 was pretty good too...such a shame that the BASIC went back...

Yeah we run PAL. It cant possibly be ultra-rare for me to pick up two copies, one very good condition boxed and instructions, in a week from the same weekend market. It might be just hard to come across here and I've been _really_ lucky...admittedly I havent seen it anywhere else or recall seeing it...