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   - title: 'SX-64 #1'
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   - title: C64 assembly line pictures!
     url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vzfJLVS2YI
     text: 'Length: 6 min 56 s'
-  comments:
-  - author: AB PP (USA)
-    date: Tuesday 28th November 2017
-    text: I want one. I am willing to pay up to $100 for it. Let me know!
-  - author: Silent-Hunter (USA)
-    date: Friday 10th October 2014
-    text: I have one of these, it is very nice! The only issue is a timing problem with the cartridge port, preventing me from using the MicroSD card reader I bought for it.
-  - author: Shorrdan
-    date: Saturday 17th December 2011
-    text: It is in perfect condition. There are no bugs no errors and has all of it''s parts. No scratches no dents perfect condition.
-  - author: Shorrdan (california)
-    date: Saturday 17th December 2011
-    text: I am willing to sell my commodore 64 for $1000 minimum price max price is $2000
-  - author: M Phinney
-    date: Sunday 28th August 2011
-    text: |-
-      I have one of these for Sale, everything seems to work, can supply pictures and info, also have other old computers as well. Sx-64 $1000 plus actual shipping\
-      Paypal only\
-      mac@maltam.com
-  - author: Mike (Kingwood, TX)
-    date: Saturday 23rd April 2011
-    text: I have one of these for sale but I don''t know if I trust shipping it, not to mention the shipping cost but if anyone in the Houston area wants one... http://houston.craigslist.org/sys/2341598316.html
-  - author: Joshq
-    date: Wednesday 20th April 2011
-    text: I''d buy one of those!
-  - author: commodore 64
-    date: Thursday 9th September 2010
-    text: yeah, i wouldn''t mind having one if i can get one at a decent price with everything working. back then, it was the holy grail of everything c64.
-  - author: Mr. Commodore (Atari Land)
-    date: Saturday 14th February 2009
-    text: |-
-      I''m scared to the Z80 of 2 things:\
-      Computer Viruses and spiders\
-      Emulators realy make me chew my fingernails, I had to buy my own copy of windows for my computer and I do NOT want to have to wipe the windows partition of my Mac... That would be $200 and 4 months of mowing lawns, shoveling leaves and blowing snow down the so very unforgiving drain. :(\
-      Back to the point can any of you fellow computer nerds help me find an emulator that I KNOW I can trust? I need it to be small because I have the "You are running out of disk space, click on this message to have windows $ the presious non-replaceable files you collected over a period of 1 year" message popping up whenever I start Windows. All sugestions are welcome, Thanks! (sorry i ramble sometimes)
-  - author: FATAL EROR! (england county durham)
-    date: Tuesday 3rd October 2006
-    text: do they have a battery if so what is the battery life like on them? if not can you rig one up for it?
-  - author: Dave (USA)
-    date: Friday 11th August 2006
-    text: |-
-      (Sigh!) I was lucky enough to own an SX-64 back when the Commodore 64 was still very popular. With a bit of skill, the SX-64 could be nicely modified into a dream machine that caught everyone's attention at computer user group meetings.
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-      First, I remember that there was a commercial hardware product called the SX-Flash, which was a truely transparant speed-up mod that worked with all games, plus added some nice fast dos commands (fast load cartridges were good, but they didn't work with some copy protected games).
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-      Second, there were some great home-grown modifications that could be done, with nice places to hide the switches. We added a drive number selector switch so that the built in drive could be device 8 or 9, complete with an LED number display mounted flush right next to the drive in the area between the drive and monitor.
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-      We also added a write-protect always on/off toggle switch for the drive and mounted a flush red/green LED in the same area. (This was specifically for one guy in the user's group who had a bad habit of not keeping the source & destination drives straight and copying his blanks onto others' software disks.)
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-      I was software librarian and finally found an SFD Dual Drive. This was one of the best drives ever made for the C-64 family and it made the SX-64 the perfect portable disk duplicator for club meetings.
-  - author: eror (?)
-    date: Thursday 27th July 2006
-    text: im after one
-  - author: Jae (US)
-    date: Thursday 7th April 2005
-    text: I have a sx 64 from a friend that works, but didn't come with a keyboard cable. A straight db25 female cable will work, you just have to get the cable to fit in the recess. The pins are not actually narrower, it just looks that way.
-  - author: Søren Peo Pedersen (Greve, Denmark)
-    date: Wednesday 15th December 2004
-    text: |-
-      My first computer was an SX-64 as shown on the exhibit page. Rare as they go, mine was even rigged by the danish branch of Commodore to have danish letters (Æ/æ, Ø/ø and Å/å) on both keyboard and on screen.
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-      Here are a few tips about it:
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-      The floppy drive on the executive will work on pretty much any 5.25" floppies that you can get hold of. For info on using the machine and it's built-in Basic and OS, search the Net for info on the Commodore 64. There's both the user manual and the in-depth "Programmer's Reference Guide" - read these as if you had a "regular" Commodore 64 rigged up with a 1541 floppy disk drive and a monitor. The only things that don't apply to the Executive, is the use of the "Datasette" and casette tape storage.
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-      Beware of expansions that go into the "User Port" at the rear of this machine. In at least the SX, one side of the 9 V AC available at the user port is connected to the DC ground, whereas in the Commodore 64, the same 9 V AC supply is electrically "floating" relative to the DC.\
-      So things like e.g. RS232 interfaces, designed for the user port on a Commodore 64, might fry either itself or the (supposedly compatible) machine if plugged into an Executive 64...
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-      About the keyboard cable: Allthough the connectors in the keyboard and on the main unit may look like standard DB25 females, they are not - at least the spacing between the two rows of pins are narrower than standard.\
-      In case you consider replacing the connectors with standard DB-25's and soldering your own keyboard cable: I'm not perfectly sure about it, but as far as I recall from hunting down a "flaky" connection in my cable, most (if not all) of the wires go straght through, from pin #n on the keyboard, to the same pin #n at the main unit (numbering just as if they were DB-25's).
-  - author: Steve (England)
-    date: Tuesday 2nd November 2004
-    text: Hi, I have an dm sx64, does anybody know anything about these. I cant find anything about it on the net and it's the only one i have ever come across on ebay, is this an increadibly rare machine??????
-  - author: titanshea (Tennessee)
-    date: Tuesday 21st September 2004
-    text: I am looking for a keyboard cable for my sx-64
-  - author: dale (uk)
-    date: Sunday 8th February 2004
-    text: i have an sx 64 with the keyboard cable but no keyboard can any one help????? i have had it for years and ut works perfectly on cartridge games.
-  - author: Simon (Milan, Italy)
-    date: Thursday 9th January 2003
-    text: |-
-      Hi Team,\
-      i'm looking for the current used price for this wonderful C64/EX ! any idea ?\
-      Simon
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