Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting?

Re:Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? by markus_zhang on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:51AM (#27931317)

I just purchased a C64 Mini. Can't afford a real C64 and its maintenance but a Mini is well in the budget. It's essentially an emulator running on another computer but I think it would be a nice place to play some classic games and write my own assembly code!

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Re:Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? by albertkoz on Friday July 23, 2021 @02:09PM (#27933840)

I bought mine real C64 cheaper than Mini. I live in central Europe and you can grab c64 here with cables etc. for around $40-50.

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Re:Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? by markus_zhang on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:09PM (#27935669)

That's really neat. In Canada it's probably some 200 bucks plus delivery :/

Where do you hunt these stuffs? Ebay?

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Re:Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? by albertkoz on Saturday July 24, 2021 @11:13AM (#27941604)

Local ads websites & facebook groups. More likely to get something cheap. Ebay like sites are usually full of traders, that resell them for profit.

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Re:Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? by markus_zhang on Saturday July 24, 2021 @04:40PM (#27944294)

Thanks for the tip. Yeah I found out that ebay price is pretty high. I'll probably find some local groups.

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