Commodore 64, Commodore 64sx enthusiasts?

[Tony Duell]

> I think that commodore went wrong in three areas.
> 
> 1. they never put a standart rs232 port on their stuff. sure you could 
> use 1488's , but that was not the point.  There was no real rs232.

True... I have much the same moan about certain HP machines where the 
HPIB port is built-in (or an easy-to-find module), but the RS232 port is 
almost impossible to find now.

> 
> 2. The disk drives were basically computers to themselves;

Have you ever opened an HP91xx drive box? There's normally a 68B09 inside...

> 
> 3. 40 columns just ain't cool. 80 is the way to go.

Yes, but rememebr that Commodore were going for the home market, and 
wanted to be able to use a normal TV set as a monitor. I've not found a 
TV that can legibly display 80 columns if you feed the signal in to the 
aerial input (composite video inputs were not at all common then). 

-tony