Lol I never knew that there is a portable version of Commodore 64 until now! It’s incredible even 5 years later! This o dilated machine should be published again ^_^(I know the possibility is very low lol)
@@panpaletkalg2550 I remember warning people not to put their floppies on top of the C64 1541 drives. The electrical fields they generated were known to corrupt data on the disks. I don't know about this area of the SX64
Love it! This is the computer that kick started my career. I was working for Amoco Pipeline in the mid 1980's, and my buddy Kirk and I had C-64's at home for gaming. One of the things we did at work was proving meters, and the calculations were done by using paper tables and calculators. Kirk and I found that there were programmable calculations available for temperature and pressure correction, and convinced our boss to buy a couple of these machines. We wrote a proving program in basic, had a Commodore dot matrix printer that filled out the proving report. We also burned our program to cartridge with custom Eproms. (I later used my Commodore 64 to duplicate Eproms for a home built application that polled tank RTU's at Cushing Terminal)
Great video! I enjoy the little skits that you've started putting into your productions. They're charming and actually make me laugh out loud; it's a nice addition to a video that I otherwise primarily watch for a bit of retro education.
Not that anyone gives a crap, but back in the day I LOVED my C64. Ran a BBS for a while and towards the end I had over 2500 games for it. The software scene lasted longer in Europe than it did in the US so we all had connections to pirated games from overseas. I actually found a SX64 at a thrift store and was able to make a keyboard cable from supplies at Radio Shack. Ah....Memories.
Cuz the commodore is keeping up with -- oh now wait a minute. If this Commodore was keeping up with you, it'd be like R2-D2 with its own legs and follow you around.
I know this is not the right place to ask, and the question I'm about to ask would probally require your knowledge and 8-Bit Guys, but is there a MDX player for the Adlib/Sound Blaster that runs on DOS?
I used to own an SX-64. My Keyboard Cable had died years ago, but we had built a DB25 solution with a ribbon cable that was a lot easier to wrap up and store. Sadly, my SX-64 finally completely failed around the mid 90's and was no longer revivable. At the time, I had no idea how to repair it, and it sadly went in the trash bin when I moved. But I spent many years with this machine and it brings back some pretty good nostalgia. It certainly was heavy!
Great review and those ads and skits are just pure gold. Our school bought an SX-64 in 1984 and I was lucky enough to spend a year using it to edit our school newsletter. Back then, sitting in front of something like that made you feel like the future had arrived on your desk!
lol well we Americans can *2 to get the estimated weight all by ourselves in a half a second when anyone says kilos...what happened to the rest of the world's math? 1kg~0.5 lb etc. I guess its not a big deal, but we deal with that non-stop. Of course once you get into liquids it starts getting weird. liters ~ quart almost 1 to 1 so I often use that. 5 liters is ~ 1.25 gallons. 2 gallons is roughly 8 liters or 8 quarts. As for meters to feet? I go by a 3 to 1 estimate. ~3 ft. in one meter. for km or kph, I know if someone is going 100 kph I just multiply by 0.6 and they are going 60 mph. For the US to Convert from imperial would be really difficult anyway. Almost all cars here are imperial, all wood size standards, all form factors etc. I can imagine engineers working with a 48.26 cm rack mount LOLOLOL. Although I often use metric personally on projects simply because of the scales of 10 advantage/fractional advantages. I cant imagine someone saying OMG that building holds 15 kiloquarts of water!
Interestingly, neither the machine itself nor its owner's manual bears the "SX-64" name; both refer to it as the "Executive 64" (or the "VIP-64" in Europe). That's because three versions were planned to be sold: the SX-100 with a single floppy drive and monochrome screen, the SX-64 with a single floppy drive and color screen, and the DX-64 with dual floppy drives and color screen. Only the SX-64 actually made it into production, although as you mention, you can add a second floppy drive, turning it into a DX-64.
I had one. It sure felt heavier than 23 lbs. I used the storage for floppies. Hook up a 120 baud screaming fast modem and off to BBS's and wicked high phone bills.
LOL, nice job mocking the old commercial, including putting Dave Murray +The 8-Bit Guy in it! I love that you guys live so close together that you can often have crossover episodes!
Anywhere from $250 - $500 on eBay. Shipping is expensive as well since these babies are fairly heavy, and naturally this won't be included in the price very often. The cable issue isn't the end of the world since you can buy a replacement for them, but they look like crap. Look for one that doesn't have a bunch of dings and scratches, that don't have their clips broken on the keyboard (you can see them @4:23), or the sockets for the clips in the frame itself (@4:27). And for it to actually be working properly, you need to see the startup screen (@2:15). It's common to see an otherwise decent SX-64 that displays a white screen on bootup described as "working perfectly" on eBay. So if you see one that you like, demand: 1) Photos of the SX-64 from every angle, including shots of the clips and sockets. 2) A shot of it actually working. 3) A picture of the keyboard printing to the screen (every key). As well as an MP3 of it playing music (the SID chips are getting scarce). There are a number of add-ons that speed things up, Jiffydos is the most common, but you can also get devices that take the place of the old 5 1/4" floppies. Happy hunting!
As a true 8bit Commodore Geek this is one of the systems that has alluded me, as when I've seen one for sale, it's always either been well out of my price range it, or so far gone no amount of rational repair would have saved it.
1:55 the storage is to keep about 10-15 floppy disks in the unit whilst travelling round making your fortune of course ;) Also very useful for holding your fav' crack disk games compilations in 2021 for a nice tidy retro gaming point in the house. The keyboard is quite similar in feel to the Amiga 1000 as well.
The keyboard uses a printer cable...I used an extension I got from RS to move the keyboard further from the computer...external monitor....my college computer. I still have it, but it stopped booting a couple of decades ago.
I had one of these back in the day. They were too heavy and the display too small but it was still cool. Another interesting luggable machine was the Tandy Model 4P.
I lusted after this thing back when it came out, I had a C-64, and being 17 years old at the time, didn't exactly need a computer on the go, but still it would be really cool to haul my SX-64 to my friends' houses to play Forbidden Forest and SuperHuey! BTW, any idea why they changed the default screen colors to blue on white? It's a bit higher contrast, than blue on blue, but IIRC, the little screen wasn't blurry or hard to read.
My cousin ran a C64 BBS back in the 90s and he had a ton of C64 stuff, including an SX-64. I thought it was awesome (and still do), once I went with him to a local monthly computer meet and carried the SX-64 up three flights of stairs. Oh yes, it was heavy, but I wish I knew what had became of it.
I used to haul this cumbersome thing to the hospital with me on the weekends to play with in the early 90's. It was fun. It had a disk drive that never broke like the 1541. Watching this video, I don't know if I ever knew that control door was there next to the storage door :)
I never saw the commercials, very funny. The local K-Mart had one that I played with back in the day. It was a significant omission to leave out the datasette port, typically that was used to power your printer interface. I'm guessing most executives probably weren't going to be using the slow commodore printer lacking true descenders.
Years ago I happened across a Mac Portable and lugged that thing around to and from school. I loved that computer, all 21 lbs of it... acid battery and all.
Im so glad i found this channel! thanks to the 8-bit guy. good quality video and sound, great info and research, chill voice, this channel has everything!
I actually remember the original ad on telly as a kid. I do think the rebooted ad at the end was very good.LOL! I knew someone who's family had one. They were good looking and very well made. Thanks for bringing back the memories...
Back in the day, these were known as transportable or lug-able computers, since they were bigger and heavier than other computers that were available at the time. The fact that they needed an electrical outlet also defined the category.
Nice collectors piece! Very rare to find them in good working condition with the keyboard cable! LOL @ taking it into the cafe there, and into the office. Great video =D
I love my SX-64, it's a funky and funny piece of computing history. And it's always the center of the party. People are just amazed and some even think it's actually adorable. And yes, your 'hipster level' does go to OMEGA, when you go to a coffee shop! :D (backstory: I was about to make a demonstration for a friend's teaching subject/project, who was an IT-teacher. I had to wait in a coffee shop for my friend to come home from work... I didn't have keys to her apartment... so I had extra special time with my sx-64... "Whatta hell kinda computer is that?" "Is that a nuclear missile launcher?")
great video ... you guys looked at the Tandy 100 or 102 ... thought that was billed as the first true portable computer ? 8bit, can be run on AAA batteries. Has a modem inside ... so can you guys get it on the internet ? I dialled up a weather station on some bullitin board.
Love that commercial at the end! It took me a second to realize you guys made it, I first thought that video quality seemed a bit too good to look entirely real (oversaturated and no visual artifacts (ghosting and oversharpening from vacuum tube CRT cameras) But I guess today's cameras are just too good lol! But you did well on capturing that 80's style lol!
I Had a couple of C64's. Even ran a BBS back in the 80s. I thought the SX'64 was amazing back then. But it was always out of reach with its price. Some where in the 2000s I finally acquired 2 of them. (I don't even remember where. Probably a flee market.) One worked. The other didn't. Figured I'd hold on to it to use for parts on the working one if needed. There were sitting in my basement for the longest time. After seeing some videos on how rare and popular they are, I decided to see if I could fix the non-working one. Last night got up the courage to open both up and start swapping parts to find the problem. Bingo!! Bad PLA chip. Otherwise everything else works. Going to see if I can purchase that chip now. The C64 was always my favorite computer. Getting the SX was just gold.
I was selling these (and C-64"s) for theatrical lighting control. I used the cartridge port for 8 bit I/O. I built a 32 channel interface within a single rack unit space. Each channel used an Analog Devices "AD558" DAC that put out 0 to 10 VDC to control Teatronics dimmer packs. I wrote the "GUI" (if you can call it that) in basic, but the heavy lifting was written using "Merlin 64." Worked great for the time and cheaper than using an Apple.
I had one of these! my dad brought it home with a box of other junk from his boss at work when he worked for a local newspaper. he knew I was into computer and thought I would like it. from what I can remember it worked but I wasn't really interested in it at 15. (early 90s) I ended up working for CMD which was a local place that made commodore accelerators and JiffyDOS in 96. I traded it to them for some other computer stuff, I don't remember what it was, or they gave me $20, lol.
I stumbled on one of these beasts in the past and found most of them had heavily failing keyboards; however, after buying 3 of them, I had a functioning machine that worked a number of years ago, but now needs some work. When time permits, I will change old capacitors and put heat sinks on their often hot/failing chips. Nevertheless, this is a cool, quite rare, and fun to use piece of history...and this positive writing is coming from someone who despised the C64 back in the day, for his "team" was the Atari 8 bit family of computers!
Fantastic computer, nice vid mate! A strange thing today, yours channel and bill's (guru med) didn't notify me about your new vids although notification are on.
I had one of those. I was in the Navy back then. It was perfect for taking onboard ship. The screen was really to small to be useful (programming was a pain on that miniature screen) but it could be connected to a TV. Man was that thing cool for the times. I still remember the BIOS start up screen. 38,911 basic bytes free...lol.
@@GreenTeaViewer Yeah, the area I worked in was 6 MILVANS that hung from the overhead of the forward hanger bay. (think shipping containers). The first one was the common area/TV lounge/pub rack (maintenance library)/ and First Class's office. That was our common area that we used to gather for entertainment.
I, too, own a classic "portable" pc! I own a NEC powermate portable. It weighs at LEAST 30 pounds and is circa 1988. Got it from a hospital that was closing down in my area!
My understanding is that storing disks in there would slowly corrupt them due to the magnetic shielding around the disk drive not being up to scratch. True? I don't know.
What the storage was for? That's where you put the keyboard cable and power cord so they didn't get lost; that's what I did with mine. Glad to help with your quandary.
You must have been the envy of every hipster in that Starbucks, minus the one guy who rode a Penny Farthing in and wrote up his memoirs on a typewriter.
Excellent video. The end scene is definitely the best part!
lol
That was a good laugh at the end haha
Definitely! That was classic!
Lol I never knew that there is a portable version of Commodore 64 until now!
It’s incredible even 5 years later!
This o dilated machine should be published again ^_^(I know the possibility is very low lol)
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The Starbucks and office skits were gold. Keep up the good work.
I should do that one day on one of our business meeting where i take notes to tell the boss what improvements need to be made
"Anybody have the WiFi password?" I lost it at that.
Yeah, he should have like 300k subscribers with elaborate sketches like that.
I just picture some of the customers at Starbucks who didn't know he was shooting a video for UA-cam sitting like WAIT! WHAT?
Rangerman9404 everyone is a pocket nerd now
That whole coffee shop scene was pure gold. Good job.
"Honestly, I'm not really sure what you'd need storage for." [shows clip of guy pulling cables out of the storage area]
looks like it's a good place to store your floppy disks
@@panpaletkalg2550 I remember warning people not to put their floppies on top of the C64 1541 drives. The electrical fields they generated were known to corrupt data on the disks. I don't know about this area of the SX64
Love it! This is the computer that kick started my career. I was working for Amoco Pipeline in the mid 1980's, and my buddy Kirk and I had C-64's at home for gaming. One of the things we did at work was proving meters, and the calculations were done by using paper tables and calculators. Kirk and I found that there were programmable calculations available for temperature and pressure correction, and convinced our boss to buy a couple of these machines. We wrote a proving program in basic, had a Commodore dot matrix printer that filled out the proving report. We also burned our program to cartridge with custom Eproms. (I later used my Commodore 64 to duplicate Eproms for a home built application that polled tank RTU's at Cushing Terminal)
Please consult your doctor to asses your physical condition and determine it is safe before attempting to keep up with the commodore.
Vilavek
One of my favorite comments ever
Vikavek Oh that was funny. Can you do one about Dial-Up Internet.
I own 4 SX-64's and 26 other various Commodores. I think we love commodore! And still run 2 bbs's 24/7 since 2009.
More surprised of running bbs's than owning so many C-64 stuff! Shut my 4 lines about 1994 of 1995!
I can't keep up with The Commodore :'^(
Should I be concerned? Who do I contact?
Yes you should be.
It's dead Jim.
Contact Jim.
But I can! I have Commodore 64 C!
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LOL LOL!!
Great video! I enjoy the little skits that you've started putting into your productions. They're charming and actually make me laugh out loud; it's a nice addition to a video that I otherwise primarily watch for a bit of retro education.
Hípster Level OMEGA!!... awesome video!!!
damn that jingle is catchy.
great vid!
I'm trying, I'm trying allright?!
***** You're right, I wasn't trying my hardest. I was being lazy
if i could sub multiple times i would. this is your best one ever. brilliant!
Not that anyone gives a crap, but back in the day I LOVED my C64. Ran a BBS for a while and towards the end I had over 2500 games for it. The software scene lasted longer in Europe than it did in the US so we all had connections to pirated games from overseas. I actually found a SX64 at a thrift store and was able to make a keyboard cable from supplies at Radio Shack. Ah....Memories.
My arms are tired
Are you keeping up with the Commodore's weight?
Cuz the commodore is keeping up with -- oh now wait a minute.
If this Commodore was keeping up with you, it'd be like R2-D2 with its own legs and follow you around.
Man, that would've been so cool
and would have been the most expensive thing ever haha.
I know this is not the right place to ask, and the question I'm about to ask would probally require your knowledge and 8-Bit Guys, but is there a MDX player for the Adlib/Sound Blaster that runs on DOS?
I used to own an SX-64. My Keyboard Cable had died years ago, but we had built a DB25 solution with a ribbon cable that was a lot easier to wrap up and store. Sadly, my SX-64 finally completely failed around the mid 90's and was no longer revivable. At the time, I had no idea how to repair it, and it sadly went in the trash bin when I moved. But I spent many years with this machine and it brings back some pretty good nostalgia. It certainly was heavy!
LOL! I still have mine. Works too. Spent far too much of my youth staring at that 5in CRT. :D
Great review and those ads and skits are just pure gold. Our school bought an SX-64 in 1984 and I was lucky enough to spend a year using it to edit our school newsletter. Back then, sitting in front of something like that made you feel like the future had arrived on your desk!
Not many americans say the weight in Kilos too, just in pounds. Thanks for the info
I recognize we are the odd ones
Im pretty sure about that. Im Brazilian, by the way.
+The Obsolete Geek ha ha so true
Clearly you appreciate that you have an international audience.
It's a small thing, but appreciated nonetheless. XD
lol well we Americans can *2 to get the estimated weight all by ourselves in a half a second when anyone says kilos...what happened to the rest of the world's math? 1kg~0.5 lb etc. I guess its not a big deal, but we deal with that non-stop. Of course once you get into liquids it starts getting weird. liters ~ quart almost 1 to 1 so I often use that. 5 liters is ~ 1.25 gallons. 2 gallons is roughly 8 liters or 8 quarts. As for meters to feet? I go by a 3 to 1 estimate. ~3 ft. in one meter. for km or kph, I know if someone is going 100 kph I just multiply by 0.6 and they are going 60 mph. For the US to Convert from imperial would be really difficult anyway. Almost all cars here are imperial, all wood size standards, all form factors etc. I can imagine engineers working with a 48.26 cm rack mount LOLOLOL. Although I often use metric personally on projects simply because of the scales of 10 advantage/fractional advantages. I cant imagine someone saying OMG that building holds 15 kiloquarts of water!
Interestingly, neither the machine itself nor its owner's manual bears the "SX-64" name; both refer to it as the "Executive 64" (or the "VIP-64" in Europe). That's because three versions were planned to be sold: the SX-100 with a single floppy drive and monochrome screen, the SX-64 with a single floppy drive and color screen, and the DX-64 with dual floppy drives and color screen. Only the SX-64 actually made it into production, although as you mention, you can add a second floppy drive, turning it into a DX-64.
I had one. It sure felt heavier than 23 lbs. I used the storage for floppies. Hook up a 120 baud screaming fast modem and off to BBS's and wicked high phone bills.
Coffee shop and boardroom bits were pure gold. Great writing from the creator of these videos.
LOL, nice job mocking the old commercial, including putting Dave Murray +The 8-Bit Guy in it! I love that you guys live so close together that you can often have crossover episodes!
It is convenient, for sure. However, I still sometimes have guest stars on my channel that live far away.
Like whom, Dave?
Dave, how much do these portable C64s sell for? I'd kinda like to get one.
Anywhere from $250 - $500 on eBay. Shipping is expensive as well since these babies are fairly heavy, and naturally this won't be included in the price very often. The cable issue isn't the end of the world since you can buy a replacement for them, but they look like crap.
Look for one that doesn't have a bunch of dings and scratches, that don't have their clips broken on the keyboard (you can see them @4:23), or the sockets for the clips in the frame itself (@4:27).
And for it to actually be working properly, you need to see the startup screen (@2:15). It's common to see an otherwise decent SX-64 that displays a white screen on bootup described as "working perfectly" on eBay.
So if you see one that you like, demand:
1) Photos of the SX-64 from every angle, including shots of the clips and sockets.
2) A shot of it actually working.
3) A picture of the keyboard printing to the screen (every key).
As well as an MP3 of it playing music (the SID chips are getting scarce).
There are a number of add-ons that speed things up, Jiffydos is the most common, but you can also get devices that take the place of the old 5 1/4" floppies.
Happy hunting!
I know. LOL😃
As a true 8bit Commodore Geek this is one of the systems that has alluded me, as when I've seen one for sale, it's always either been well out of my price range it, or so far gone no amount of rational repair would have saved it.
1:55 the storage is to keep about 10-15 floppy disks in the unit whilst travelling round making your fortune of course ;) Also very useful for holding your fav' crack disk games compilations in 2021 for a nice tidy retro gaming point in the house. The keyboard is quite similar in feel to the Amiga 1000 as well.
I use it to hold my ham and swiss
The keyboard uses a printer cable...I used an extension I got from RS to move the keyboard further from the computer...external monitor....my college computer. I still have it, but it stopped booting a couple of decades ago.
I had one of these back in the day. They were too heavy and the display too small but it was still cool. Another interesting luggable machine was the Tandy Model 4P.
I lusted after this thing back when it came out, I had a C-64, and being 17 years old at the time, didn't exactly need a computer on the go, but still it would be really cool to haul my SX-64 to my friends' houses to play Forbidden Forest and SuperHuey!
BTW, any idea why they changed the default screen colors to blue on white? It's a bit higher contrast, than blue on blue, but IIRC, the little screen wasn't blurry or hard to read.
My cousin ran a C64 BBS back in the 90s and he had a ton of C64 stuff, including an SX-64. I thought it was awesome (and still do), once I went with him to a local monthly computer meet and carried the SX-64 up three flights of stairs. Oh yes, it was heavy, but I wish I knew what had became of it.
I used to haul this cumbersome thing to the hospital with me on the weekends to play with in the early 90's. It was fun. It had a disk drive that never broke like the 1541. Watching this video, I don't know if I ever knew that control door was there next to the storage door :)
I never saw the commercials, very funny. The local K-Mart had one that I played with back in the day.
It was a significant omission to leave out the datasette port, typically that was used to power your printer interface. I'm guessing most executives probably weren't going to be using the slow commodore printer lacking true descenders.
Years ago I happened across a Mac Portable and lugged that thing around to and from school. I loved that computer, all 21 lbs of it... acid battery and all.
Im so glad i found this channel! thanks to the 8-bit guy.
good quality video and sound, great info and research, chill voice, this channel has everything!
I actually remember the original ad on telly as a kid. I do think the rebooted ad at the end was very good.LOL! I knew someone who's family had one. They were good looking and very well made. Thanks for bringing back the memories...
It IS amazing to see where we've come from! My arms are tired just watching you lug that boat anchor around! :)
Back in the day, these were known as transportable or lug-able computers, since they were bigger and heavier than other computers that were available at the time. The fact that they needed an electrical outlet also defined the category.
I enjoyed the trip back memory lane. I still have mine and I think it still works! Although, I haven't pulled it out in years.
Nice collectors piece! Very rare to find them in good working condition with the keyboard cable! LOL @ taking it into the cafe there, and into the office. Great video =D
Ok that was just awesome with the Coffee shop and boardroom meeting scenes :-) Thank you!
I love my SX-64, it's a funky and funny piece of computing history. And it's always the center of the party. People are just amazed and some even think it's actually adorable. And yes, your 'hipster level' does go to OMEGA, when you go to a coffee shop! :D (backstory: I was about to make a demonstration for a friend's teaching subject/project, who was an IT-teacher. I had to wait in a coffee shop for my friend to come home from work... I didn't have keys to her apartment... so I had extra special time with my sx-64... "Whatta hell kinda computer is that?" "Is that a nuclear missile launcher?")
I subscribed simply because you took this SX-64 to a coffee shop. Hilarious
This is by far my favourite video on your channel :)
Awesome ending!
You deserve waaaay more subscribers. I love the starbucks and office scenes
great video ... you guys looked at the Tandy 100 or 102 ... thought that was billed as the first true portable computer ? 8bit, can be run on AAA batteries. Has a modem inside ... so can you guys get it on the internet ? I dialled up a weather station on some bullitin board.
Wonderful! I was howling for the whole office meeting scene
I had a friend who had one of these. I was jealous at the time. It was so cool.
Cool PC, I love the self made ad at the end.
"Anyone have the wifi password?" I LOLed. 😆
I would love to have that c-64 portable!!!!
I have one I need to sell.
Awesome video as always! I love the fact that you took it to Starbucks, and I love the version of the commercial that you guys made!
Love that commercial at the end! It took me a second to realize you guys made it, I first thought that video quality seemed a bit too good to look entirely real (oversaturated and no visual artifacts (ghosting and oversharpening from vacuum tube CRT cameras) But I guess today's cameras are just too good lol! But you did well on capturing that 80's style lol!
I approve of the little sketches in this one. Made it more entertaining. :-)
The keyboard cable is just a Parallel printer cable.
Yeah, I was kinda amazed at how relatively easily Techmoan managed to make a replacement cable for his two SX-64s.
That storage area was probably for extra disks
I Had a couple of C64's. Even ran a BBS back in the 80s. I thought the SX'64 was amazing back then. But it was always out of reach with its price.
Some where in the 2000s I finally acquired 2 of them. (I don't even remember where. Probably a flee market.) One worked. The other didn't. Figured I'd hold on to it to use for parts on the working one if needed.
There were sitting in my basement for the longest time.
After seeing some videos on how rare and popular they are, I decided to see if I could fix the non-working one. Last night got up the courage to open both up and start swapping parts to find the problem. Bingo!! Bad PLA chip. Otherwise everything else works. Going to see if I can purchase that chip now.
The C64 was always my favorite computer. Getting the SX was just gold.
I was selling these (and C-64"s) for theatrical lighting control. I used the cartridge port for 8 bit I/O. I built a 32 channel interface within a single rack unit space. Each channel used an Analog Devices "AD558" DAC that put out 0 to 10 VDC to control Teatronics dimmer packs. I wrote the "GUI" (if you can call it that) in basic, but the heavy lifting was written using "Merlin 64." Worked great for the time and cheaper than using an Apple.
dude, we stored floppy disks in that 2nd hole. was a great place to store the few floppies you were working with
thanks a lot man, now that jingle's gonna be stuck in my head for a week!!
That end clip made my day
haha
Great video again!
I first saw this video when I checked my feed literally immediately after watching Terry Stewart's Video on his SX-64. spooky!
I especially loved the ending!
I got a flashback to my first computer-class, a room filled with C64's .... that was good times.
That last 80s looking segment = gem
Love the 8-Bit Guy cameo at the end.
God, I was 16 when these came out. I've never wanted something so much in my life.
So cool! Thanks for this, I had no idea this beast existed.
great video! your content is getting better every time! keep it up
4:00 perfect moment for a hipster selfie :)
Beautiful machine
Ha! That's exactly how I felt lugging that thing to school back in the 90's.
Your videos are amazing!Keep up the good work!👍
I had one of these! my dad brought it home with a box of other junk from his boss at work when he worked for a local newspaper. he knew I was into computer and thought I would like it. from what I can remember it worked but I wasn't really interested in it at 15. (early 90s) I ended up working for CMD which was a local place that made commodore accelerators and JiffyDOS in 96. I traded it to them for some other computer stuff, I don't remember what it was, or they gave me $20, lol.
Aww, I miss my SX-64, I used to carry that on the bus when I was a kid, yea, super nerd.
Excellent video mate. and love.the ending!
I'd love a portable all in one x68000. Then again such a thing would be all too precious to carry around.
Not sure what you would use the storage compartment for... proceeds to store rare and valuable keyboard cable in storage compartment.
Great video--love my SX-64. Dat Turbo Outrun theme, tho!
I stumbled on one of these beasts in the past and found most of them had heavily failing keyboards; however, after buying 3 of them, I had a functioning machine that worked a number of years ago, but now needs some work. When time permits, I will change old capacitors and put heat sinks on their often hot/failing chips. Nevertheless, this is a cool, quite rare, and fun to use piece of history...and this positive writing is coming from someone who despised the C64 back in the day, for his "team" was the Atari 8 bit family of computers!
This computer looks exactly like an old oscilloscope
Fantastic computer, nice vid mate!
A strange thing today, yours channel and bill's (guru med) didn't notify me about your new vids although notification are on.
I had one of those. I was in the Navy back then. It was perfect for taking onboard ship. The screen was really to small to be useful (programming was a pain on that miniature screen) but it could be connected to a TV. Man was that thing cool for the times. I still remember the BIOS start up screen. 38,911 basic bytes free...lol.
How did you use it onboard? Set up in a common area for gaming?
@@GreenTeaViewer Yeah, the area I worked in was 6 MILVANS that hung from the overhead of the forward hanger bay. (think shipping containers). The first one was the common area/TV lounge/pub rack (maintenance library)/ and First Class's office. That was our common area that we used to gather for entertainment.
I, too, own a classic "portable" pc! I own a NEC powermate portable. It weighs at LEAST 30 pounds and is circa 1988. Got it from a hospital that was closing down in my area!
My understanding is that storing disks in there would slowly corrupt them due to the magnetic shielding around the disk drive not being up to scratch. True? I don't know.
I want one of those for so long now! Damn hard to find. Love the meeting scene :-D
Luggable is more accurate then portable
Real cool video the office setup cracks me up
The song is kinda catchy. I like it!
Prolly got some serious trim with one of those back in the day.
What the storage was for? That's where you put the keyboard cable and power cord so they didn't get lost; that's what I did with mine. Glad to help with your quandary.
You must have been the envy of every hipster in that Starbucks, minus the one guy who rode a Penny Farthing in and wrote up his memoirs on a typewriter.
I had an SX-64 back in '85 when I was in the Army. A couple months ago I had to buy one again. Hmmm, wonder who has my original?
I wish I had an SX-64 lol. I'd so be that madlad that actually brings it to the coffee shop or something :P
Good video of this cool device 👍
I keep looking for one of these to buy but they are scarce!
love the creepy "Commodore is keeping up with you" commercial :)
This was so much fun to watch xD keep it up! :D
That jingle makes me happy and furious at the same time lol
Man, my '89 red bmw 325i just died a year and half ago, so sad.
A hipster level I desperately wish to attain one day.
Kasran Fox wanting to re enact the true nerd days of the 80's
What's not to love?!
5:50 = 8 bit guy
How do you create the old commercial video effect? After Effects, or something else?
4:00 Excuse me? Are you using the other outlet? Do you mind if I plug in my Olivetti ETV 240?