Wanted: "Block letters" VIC-20

wiskow · Post by **wiskow** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:31 pm

Does anyone have a spare VIC-20 keyboard with the older-style "block letters"? Or a VIC-20 "parts computer" with this type of keyboard?

-Andrew
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ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:58 am

If you're advertising for one on comp.sys.cbm or searching on Ebay, you might want to ask or use the search term "PET style" keyboard, as that's what that early style keyboard is referred to by most VIC collectors.

wiskow · Post by **wiskow** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:34 am

ral-clan wrote:If you're advertising for one on comp.sys.cbm or searching on Ebay, you might want to ask or use the search term "PET style" keyboard, as that's what that early style keyboard is referred to by most VIC collectors.

Ral-clan,

Thanks for the tip! I'm still learning all of the "VICisms".

-Andrew
___________________________________
Cottonwood BBS
+1 (951) 242-3593
Open 24/7 at 300/1200/2400 baud
http://hometown.aol.com/cottonwoodbbs

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:19 pm

PM Sent!

wiskow · Post by **wiskow** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:59 pm

Thanks, Schema, for the keyboard! I got it in the mail yesterday, and it's already "in use".

Check out a closeup shot of it at the bottom of my BBS's website (link below) !!!

-Andrew
__________________________________
Cottonwood BBS
+1 (951) 242-3593
Open 24/7 at 300/1200/2400 baud
http://hometown.aol.com/cottonwoodbbs

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:34 pm

Why did you want to put a VIC-20 keyboard on a 64c? If I'm not mistaken, the last keyboard you had in there was from a breadbin 64. Any particular aversion to 64c keyboards?

wiskow · Post by **wiskow** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:48 pm

Golan,

To be honest, I never really cared for the 64c's keyboard with the tiny little graphic charachters squeezed on top of its keys along with the letters. But that's not why I swapped out the keyboard. Originally, I put a "breadbin" C64 keyboard in it, because when I got it, two of it's original white keycaps had been replaced with brown keycaps. I didn't like the way that looked at all! Not having a spare 64c, I swapped it out with the "breadbin" keyboard so that all the keycaps were uniform. Then I thought... Wouldn't it be cool to have the newest C64 with the oldest VIC-20's keyboard? Sort of a merging of generations, so to speak. I had read that all VIC-20 and C64 keyboards were compatible with one another, so it was an easy job to do. The hard part was finding a spare VIC keyboard... But Schema was kind enough to supply that.

So there you have it... And that's... the REST of the story!

-Andrew

damnstraight · Post by **damnstraight** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:45 am

do you by chance have any sid tunes on your bbs?

wiskow · Post by **wiskow** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:19 pm

damnstraight wrote:do you by chance have any sid tunes on your bbs?

As a matter of fact, yes! I've got a lot of SID tunes already up. A bunch of them are very good quality tunes written by friends of mine from Q-Link, and are unavailable anywhere else! I've stil got MANY more to add, too.

-Andrew