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SX-64 anyone?

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CaptainCommodore

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Actually, I found one the other day on eBay, but hey, they are always there right? The person lives just a county away! Shipping would be like 10 bucks, and I'm thinking about grabing it. 23 pounds, and something like a 6 inch screen. Ha ha, the first color portable computer.
 
The SX-64 is a nice machine. Basically a C-64 on the go.

I've been keeping a lazy eye out for one since last year's VCF where someone sold two nearly new-in-box examples before I could make up my mind. . .

Good luck with it if you get it!

Erik
 
The SX-64 is one of my favourite machines, in that it's a C64 (which I grew up with), but it's portable. It's collectible, of course, but it's also really good looking, if you ask me.

If course, portable is a stretch :lol:

The cool part of it is that it's dead-easy to repair. With the exception of the 4" screen, most parts are readily available, in the sense that regular breadbox 64's and 1541-drives are fairly easy to come by, and everything in there is built on exactly the same components. When I got my second SX-64 (the first working one), it had a dead SID, but I could just nudge one from a reagular C64...Neat! (And as a note on my first SX, the non-working one. I intend to try and fix it, but it had been modified beyond recognition when I got it, and was totally dead, so I haven't had the patience to look at it yet)...
 
sx-64 replacement picture tubes

sx-64 replacement picture tubes

I happen to have about 10 of these. I also have a sx-64 which turns up a blank screen. I guess I have to dig up some c-64's.
 
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