Now, I recently went away to pick some stuff, and brought with me a box of five C64 motherboards, all partially broken. I thought maybe I can switch some chips to get at least one working, but so far I haven't had any success. All just display a black screen, which could be due to a number of reasons. Perhaps if I go wild with a multimeter and soldering iron, I could spot respective board's failure.
At the same time, I picked up an empty C64C shell w/ keyboard in very good condition. My idea was to place a working motherboard inside the case, and get an instant 64. Since none of the boards is working, that is currently not possible.
Tonight I realized that the spare, loose VIC has one of those spring free keyboards, a bit stuffy and one key broken. I might be able to make a replacement pin to fix it, but since I had a C64C keyboard in perfectly working order, why not just swap it? Many of us have those white keyboards in our VICs...
![Image](http://www.cbm.sfks.se/pics/white-vic.jpg)
Maybe I'll unbox one of the C64:s, just to have one available. I think I'll go with my old breadbox that I recently brought to life, as it takes less space in the drawer and perhaps is more functional than my C64C...