Low Serial number original vic-20

vicassembly · Post by **vicassembly** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:46 pm

http://www.ebay.com/itm/COMMODORE-VIC-2 ... 43b4a352a1

Jogi · Post by **Jogi** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:57 am

Hi,

Haha...

5polig Power Supply....

Gruß Jogi

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:15 pm

Er, I was thinking the same... maybe in the US the PSU plug was round since the very firrst batch?

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:46 pm

hahaha. Missed that myself. But I was a bit suspicious anyway because the upper and lower part of the case was yellowed differently.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:18 am

This is sort of strange. I have a keyboard like that, but I took it out of a two prong VIC and put it in a later cost-reduced VIC. I thought this was just an old keyboard in a newer VIC, but the badge is also old. Maybe the whole top portion is old, and the guts are CR. I don't know. I'm no expert on the history of VIC production in the states.

callan · Post by **callan** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:59 am

Very obviously a bastard child, I'm afraid. If the CR power plug wasn't a dead giveaway, the mismatched fading between the two halves of the case definitely gives the game away. I've seen indented (Non-PET style) keyboards on 2 Prong first REV boards, but not PET-style keyboards on CR boards.

For a nice, GENUINE early example, http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6984 ... 9a07_o.jpg (Japanese-made Vic20, complete with pre-FCC approval waiver) is a more authentic example.

Callan

Jogi · Post by **Jogi** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:30 am

Hi,

Serial NO. V016318

http://www.vic20.de/html/vic20_usa_3.html

Gruß Jogi