Commodore B500???

frits · Groupie Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 195 Location: England

Just been looking on ebay at new today items and noticed this one:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI...3411728374

Anybody know about this one?
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jt-3d · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:36 pm Post subject:

Buy it and give it to me for my birthday. I've never heard of it. I'd probably plug it into some 115 and blow it up anyway.
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Rohan · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 11:01 pm Post subject:

I remember those machines, it was part of the "educational" intiative by Commodore to get their computers into more schools. One of the more powerful ones, as I recall.
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Garak · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 3:04 am Post subject:

Rohan wrote:

I remember those machines, it was part of the "educational" intiative by Commodore to get their computers into more schools. One of the more powerful ones, as I recall.

Actually it wasn't for educational reasons but purely for business computer reasons. It's a variation of the PET series of computers.

If any want to know more about the B500 and other rare/unknown Commodore computers this is _the_ site to go to "The Secret Weapons of Commodore": http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/

Garak
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Rohan · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 10:01 pm Post subject:

I stand corrected, then. I knew it had something to do with anything but games!
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