Please be standing for the SX20
Who else would build a truly portable Commodore VIC20 than the chap that made the C64p?
For those of you not playing along at home, back in 1826 (shortly after tea time, but before Eastenders).. I ‘knocked up’ a bunch of C64p’s made from old 7″ craptops, custom PCB’ery.. and of course, the right flavour of C64DTV.
Not only were the C64p’s super cool. But they were in fact how and why ‘The Future was 8bit’ happened. You see, all those Millions of years ago, NOBODY was selling ‘SD2IEC’ or the like. Maybe you’d find a blank PCB via a seller on Ebay, but it really was a completely different ‘Retro Landscape’. Anywho, to cut a long story short, I used my overdraft to pay for some custom PCB’s and a few parts. Sold the left overs on ebay.. And ta-da all these years later I’m still flogging 8bit kit from a silly little island somewhere off the cost of Europe.
Anywho, back to the SX20. The SD20 idea sprang into my mind that day I walked into yet another busted up SX64 (In my kitchen IIRC). I quite often kid around about low serial number donors in my builds.. But this one(s) really where scrappers. One looked like it had been recovered from a car crusher, the other was a mix of broken bits. These included a ‘modified’ disk drive (see broken) a broken monitor (see modified) missing handle, smashed keyboard. Basically your average ‘Grade A’ SX64 ebay listing.
Maybe it’ll come back to me, but I don’t know how I managed to have more SX64 than people with a lot of A4000’s would consider too many but late night ebaying used to be a fun thing. Let’s leave it at that.
Anywho, lets get on with this shall we. The first evidence never ending project are pics from 2018.
So, lets delve into all these old pics and try and make some sort of timeline.. and all this while I try and get the SX20 finished. Afterall, it’s been fully working for years and years.. but I feature creep & my own spare time (something I don’t have a lot of coz RL and TFW8b) gets in the way.
BTW, do keep coming back to this page for updates, it really will take me a while to get all this sorted and by the end of it, I really do want my SX20 to be finish FINISHED!!