Got a nice little VIC in the mail today.

Zeela · Post by **Zeela** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:50 pm

I just had to share my joy with you all...

Matching numbers on computer and box.

// Z

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:46 pm

Japanese get! And I imagine probably for less than it cost me for mine...

Zeela · Post by **Zeela** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:58 pm

Well, it wasn't cheap (EMS-shipping etc...)... But there were a big hole in my collection that's filled now.

Now all I need is a boxed japanese C64 and a boxed SX-64 to complete my collection.

// Z

Post by **Jeff-20** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:08 pm

Goodness! It's so pretty. Will I ever get my hands on one?! What do you think the production run was on this model? Three? Would the serial numbers give any indication of how many were made?

I may have to fly to Australia...

I love the Yen key, but the keyboard brings up another interesting issue. There's a shift lock key but there is no CMD lock key. How would one type naturally in katakana without constantly depressing the CMD key?

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:54 am

Perhaps your pretty little Japanese wife could keep the C= key depressed?

(sorry for my prejudicament about Japanese family balance, but it would make VIC:ing a joy for the whole family)

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:19 am

Jeff-20 wrote:I love the Yen key, but the keyboard brings up another interesting issue. There's a shift lock key but there is no CMD lock key. How would one type naturally in katakana without constantly depressing the CMD key?

I never fully explored my Vic-1001 but you change into katakana mode by holding shift and C= down on boot. I'm not sure if you can change between romanji and katakana on the fly with the power on though.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:49 am

Grattis!

That power supply looks giant!

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:00 am

Not that much so over the cheese wedge version, it's the same one I have for my normal Vic-20. The two prong flat model, not the round end. I guess Commodore "standardised" things later on to use the round design on the C64.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:41 am

What a poor exchange. Katakana seems useless without being able to use the full character set at once. Is it worth the sacrifice of the CMD-key's graphic set?

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:46 pm

The two prong PSU here is much smaller than the c64 type PSU.

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:01 pm

Mayhem wrote:Not that much so over the cheese wedge version, it's the same one I have for my normal Vic-20. The two prong flat model, not the round end. I guess Commodore "standardised" things later on to use the round design on the C64.

We never had the beige "Cheese wedge" power supply in North America. I think that was only a UK thing.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:43 pm

Really? I didn't realise that...

Boray wrote:The two prong PSU here is much smaller than the c64 type PSU.

Having got my Vic20 supply out here, you might be about correct. Well the biege supply I have for my C64 (replacing the cheese wedge I had that only died last year, how's that for longevity!) is a little longer but a little flatter. I think.

Just measuring it, it's 12cm x 10cm x 7cm. Seems the same size as the supply I've got for my Vic-1001...

eslapion · Post by **eslapion** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:35 pm

Boray wrote:The two prong PSU here is much smaller than the c64 type PSU.

There are two types of 2 prong PSUs.

The first one, which was provided mostly with PET style keyboard VICs and with the VIC-1001 is part no. 1001038. It is rather big and metallic and is somewhat bigger than the 64's PSU.

The other one is sealed plastic and it is smaller than the 64's PSU. I don't know its part number.

The power supply shown in the image above appears to be part no. 1001038 and it IS a 2 prong PSU.

Bacon · Post by **Bacon** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:12 am

ral-clan wrote:We never had the beige "Cheese wedge" power supply in North America. I think that was only a UK thing.

That was the standard for the C64, Plus/4, and later model VIC-20 in all of Europe, not just the UK AFAIK. It was white for the VIC, brown/gray for the C64, charchoal for the Plus/4, and beige with a slightly less round shape for the C64C. We never had the infamous black brick supply for the C64. The cheese wedge was replaced with a beige rectangular supply for later models of the C64C.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:36 am

I've seen both biege and black brick power supplies here in the UK. I've got the beige one myself.

As for my Vic-20 two prong supply, it's definitely metal not plastic... I don't know when my brother's gf got the machine originally (she gave it to me) but it was boxed and complete still.