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Yeah I have a couple of commodores in my storage left there for 25 years, probably even more, I can’t even be bothered to make time to go there to throw them aw

Yeah I have a couple of commodores in my storage left there for 25 years, probably even more, I can’t even be bothered to make time to go there to throw them away

OnlyMortal 2y ago
You might check capacitors and it’s possible the power supply is bad.
- EvanAnderson 2y ago
  If they're Commodore 64's you definitely don't want the use the stock power supplies. Their voltages can drift and can destroy otherwise working hardware.
  - DaoVeles 2y ago
    Every serious retro collector has become an expert on power supplies and capacitors. It is very cool to see and I'm glad it is the power supply and not the more delicate components, at least so far.
- snvzz 2y ago
  The Commodore C64 supplies must not be used. As they age, they will spike their voltage and destroy the C64. Today every such PSU is aged, and every such PSU is simply a C64 destroyer.
leptons 2y ago
Please don't throw them away. Someone will be more than happy to take them off your hands. They are like gold to some people. If you're in the Los Angeles area I'd pay you to "go there" to let me take them off your hands.
TacticalCoder 2y ago
Although C64 and Amiga are not rare by any means (although the Amiga, if you're in the US, wasn't that much of a success in the US compared to the UK/EU), they're highly thought after items. There's no reason to throw them away: just message a forum/board and say "free Commodore in XXX, must come pick them" and some shall gladly give them a second life.
- snvzz 2y ago
  Or take a look at ebay. Filter by already sold. Even in non-working or untested condition, they fetch quite a bit of money.
  - vintermann 2y ago
    Well, they fetch some money. Still not more than the sticker price when they were new, generally, definitively not more than the inflation-adjusted price!
camus_absurd 2y ago
> I can’t even be bothered to make time to go there to throw them away This made me physically cringe with sadness. I’d love to even find one and people are just tossing them.
- lnxg33k1 2y ago
  I'm sure if you had one you wouldn't even connect it to the power, it has a command line, some GUI and prince of persia, which you can play now even on modern PCs with emulators, it has really no use, rather than, I don't know
  - LightBug1 2y ago
    You'd be surprised. Why do people drive classic cars? Man, I'd love to, once, run a program from a cassette again just for the nostalgic hell of it!
    - vintermann 2y ago
      It was pretty fun that we could actually run games from ~40 year old tape. It impressed my son. It also impressed me actually, because I remember how often those things broke...
  - Bluecobra 2y ago
    This is simply not true. There is a very active retro computing community these days and multiple vintage computer shows each year. https://www.youtube.com/@The8BitGuy https://www.youtube.com/@The8BitGuy https://www.youtube.com/@adriansdigitalbasement https://www.youtube.com/@adriansdigitalbasement https://www.youtube.com/@LGR https://www.youtube.com/@LGR https://www.youtube.com/@TechTangents https://www.youtube.com/@TechTangents

Yeah I have a couple of commodores in my storage left there for 25 years, probably even more, I can’t even be bothered to make time to go there to throw them away

OnlyMortal 2y ago

You might check capacitors and it’s possible the power supply is bad.

EvanAnderson 2y ago
If they're Commodore 64's you definitely don't want the use the stock power supplies. Their voltages can drift and can destroy otherwise working hardware.
- DaoVeles 2y ago
  Every serious retro collector has become an expert on power supplies and capacitors. It is very cool to see and I'm glad it is the power supply and not the more delicate components, at least so far.
snvzz 2y ago
The Commodore C64 supplies must not be used. As they age, they will spike their voltage and destroy the C64. Today every such PSU is aged, and every such PSU is simply a C64 destroyer.

leptons 2y ago

Please don't throw them away. Someone will be more than happy to take them off your hands. They are like gold to some people. If you're in the Los Angeles area I'd pay you to "go there" to let me take them off your hands.

TacticalCoder 2y ago

Although C64 and Amiga are not rare by any means (although the Amiga, if you're in the US, wasn't that much of a success in the US compared to the UK/EU), they're highly thought after items. There's no reason to throw them away: just message a forum/board and say "free Commodore in XXX, must come pick them" and some shall gladly give them a second life.

snvzz 2y ago
Or take a look at ebay. Filter by already sold. Even in non-working or untested condition, they fetch quite a bit of money.
- vintermann 2y ago
  Well, they fetch some money. Still not more than the sticker price when they were new, generally, definitively not more than the inflation-adjusted price!

camus_absurd 2y ago

> I can’t even be bothered to make time to go there to throw them away This made me physically cringe with sadness. I’d love to even find one and people are just tossing them.

lnxg33k1 2y ago
I'm sure if you had one you wouldn't even connect it to the power, it has a command line, some GUI and prince of persia, which you can play now even on modern PCs with emulators, it has really no use, rather than, I don't know
- LightBug1 2y ago
  You'd be surprised. Why do people drive classic cars? Man, I'd love to, once, run a program from a cassette again just for the nostalgic hell of it!
  - vintermann 2y ago
    It was pretty fun that we could actually run games from ~40 year old tape. It impressed my son. It also impressed me actually, because I remember how often those things broke...
- Bluecobra 2y ago
  This is simply not true. There is a very active retro computing community these days and multiple vintage computer shows each year. https://www.youtube.com/@The8BitGuy https://www.youtube.com/@The8BitGuy https://www.youtube.com/@adriansdigitalbasement https://www.youtube.com/@adriansdigitalbasement https://www.youtube.com/@LGR https://www.youtube.com/@LGR https://www.youtube.com/@TechTangents https://www.youtube.com/@TechTangents