I’ve been keeping my eyes open for Commodore 64’s (with an eye to building one of the projects from Midibox) and have found one for CDN $30.
When I emailed the vendor, he indicated that sound is NOT working on the thing, he doesn’t know why (the machine belonged to his son), it could be anything from a simple short to a blown cap or chip, I suppose.
Is this a worthwhile purchase? More particularly, is the SID chip likely to work? Is the chip alone worth the $30.? I’d feel a little silly trying to get a lower price - would that be reasonable?
I realize no-one here is psychic (though if you are, I’m all ears), but I’d appreciate any thoughts.
well i don’t know the prices they usually bring in canada, i just know for germany. earlier this year i purchased several C64s on german ebay for between 8 eur (newer C64, grey keyboard) and 10.50 / 16 eur (breadbin, brown kbd).
buying 4 C64s from the same guy i finally had 5 keyboards, 2 working PSUs, 2x6581 chips and 3x8580, but i do not know which chips actually work, will have to test them.
probably the price will be slightly higher when it is said to be working.
but i can’t tell about your price because i don’t know about the canadian$ exchange rate. but if he says there’s no sound it is at least very likely that there’s a problem with the sid.
Edit: just remembered that there are always people on ebay who offer pulls. some of them say they’re working. here’s what i found (quick search):
Dunno if it’s just me, but “the sound isn’t working and I don’t know why” always sounds like I pulled the SID but conviently forgot about it/someone pulled it and I bought it w/o knowing and try to get rid of it.
