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Ebay is full of them.
I got a deal on this one I bid and got it for $255. Didn't expect to get it at that price.
Comes with 2 5.25 disk drives but no monitor.
The guy I bought it from has been emailing me and telling me the history. He bought it new in 1980 and taught his kid to program on it and the boy has gone on to be become a successful programmer. It has a very low serial number and is in mint condition.
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There should be a lot of IIe computers out there because they made a lot of them. And they were expensive so people will tend not to throw it away as long as it was still working when they moved on.
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Good one. Long time since I used one of these.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Maybe these guys need to make an Apple II in the same way they're (re)producing the full-sized C64...
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I read a while back they where going to start making the C64 and VIC20s again. Nice for us retro guys.
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"They" being that same company, yes, they're out there and available. I have their C64 mini (and the A500 mini), and had been waiting for a long time to get ahold of one of the full-size ones. I see they finally have started showing up on Amazon--but for CAD$400 (or USD$300). There's no way I'm paying that sort of money for what is, essentially, the same thing as I already have but in a larger housing. And, well, a working keyboard.
My problem really is software. If I still had my collection, I still might splurge.
Notice how they're avoiding the use of "Commodore" to identify their systems.
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I had thought about a C64, that was my first home computer.
The clones are looking pretty nice.
How do you like the mini?
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The games that came with it are okay, although I do stick with my small handful of favorites, and I like the fact that you can just place floppy disk images (if you have them) on a USB key.
Its biggest "flaw" (if you wanna call it that) is that it has to rely on an onscreen keyboard, so anything that requires any amount of typing (or a specific key for some game) is a non-starter, but they were very careful about the bundled games so none of them rely on that. I can certainly see the appeal of the full-sized one, since it has a working keyboard.
Nostalgia got the better of me, and that's why I own it...to be honest, most games got real old rather quickly, and it's been months I've even powered it on. But to be fair, I'm not the gamer I used to be, and I'm very selective about the games I spend time on these days (I play GTA5 pretty much exclusively, nothing else captures my interest), so that may have something to do with it.
I'd probably get more use out of the full-sized one, but I can't justify the sort of money they want for it.
And "can't justify" isn't the same as "can't afford". I just feel like I'd get very little value out of it.
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I bid on it but didn't expect to get it, but at the price it's not a bad deal.
I probably won't use it much but I want to do some programming and just play.
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Yeah I know it's hard to part with old equipment, but at some point there's no more room. That's part of a problem I'm having now, running out of room to put all this stuff.
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kmoorevs wrote: It probably doesn't work anymore
Probably does as long as it didn't end up underwater (damp).
kmoorevs wrote: I don't know why I just can't dump it in the bin.
You can sell it. You won't get much but might appeal more to you that someone who buys it does want it.
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That's the computer that got me hooked on computers. It was back in 1983 when I got mine. I taught myself assembly on that system. I know I've still got mine somewhere in this house.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Endly something I agree with you...  
There have been a good number of songs I didn't like, but there were a lot I did like and many I didn't even know about them.
I can perfectly understand the "RIP SOTD", it will be missed.
Thanks for all the themes I met thanks to your posts @sanderrossel
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I should listen to Aphrodite's Child more often 
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At least Vangelis is worth to listen, but also Damis is good. Vangelis made music e.g. for Blade Runners and much more 
Vangelis - Wikipedia[^]
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Oh I know Vangelis! 
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The new "AI powered" Bing looks good. My query returned a "huge" number of related historical photos (I hadn't seen before and wasn't specifically asking for) where Google was ... just Google (page scrapes).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Not trying to channel Steve Ballmer's developers chant...or whatever that was...but anyway...
Following an automated reboot (after last Tuesday's patches), Windows logs me back in then proceeds to load 8 instances of every Explorer window I previously had opened.
That is, if I had 5 Explorer windows, each showing a different folder, after the reboot, I'm going to end up with at least 40 Explorer windows...
This has been happening for maybe 2 years on this one system I'm using; sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't...I don't kow what triggers it, or how to avoid it. Or rather, I avoid it by only rebooting Windows when I have no choice after patches, or when it decides to do it on its own, despite me telling it otherwise (but that's another story).
I've never seen this on any other system, only this one instance of Windows 10, which does it consistently enough to say it's more likely to happen than not. It's on 22H2, but so are all my other physical and virtual systems.
I can't come up with the right incantation of search keywords to try to determine how widespread this might be, or what a solution might consist of.
Has anyone seen something like this?
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Haven't seen that, but somehow it reminds me of the song "Non, non, rien n’a changé" by Les Poppys 
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No, haven't never seen it.
But I do 99% of the time switch the computer off when I am not using it. I do not use the restart so much. I'll give it a check.
On the other hand, speaking about weird things...
We used a windows server in india and we logged to it using the remote desktop. After some weird situations for me and other co-workers, I realized that the windows server was sharing the clipboard with all simultaneously connected users. So if I copied something in my pc, you could paste it in yours.
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: the windows server was sharing the clipboard with all simultaneously connected users. So if I copied something in my pc, you could paste it in yours.
That...doesn't sound right. 
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And it feels even less right than it sounds. It costs me a while to understand why the heck our clipboard was behaving so weird in random moments... And there is people that don't believe it, but hey...
Luckily we were a small team of 7 people in rush hour.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
~ Groucho Marx
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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