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Re:Commodore 128D Computer by ruk_booze on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:19PM (#33823759)
I have both the C128D and the C128DCR.

Unfortunately, the DCR is missing its keyboard :(

It was always a bit awkward with the far reach for accessing the Action Replay cartridge’s (a freezer/turbo-loader) buttons since the cartridge port was way behind the monitor (or in my case, a small TV)

Almost never used any of them other than in C64 mode. Booted CP/M like once. What a waste, all those poor Z80s must be the least utilized cpus ever.

Re:Commodore 128D Computer by ncphil on Thursday December 01, 2022 @09:41PM (#33826073)
For me, that Z80 and the ability to experiment CP/M became the whole point of owning the C128 in 1985. By '86 I'd moved on to a Kaypro 1 (which I wrote my first and last bit of assembler for: to drive a daisywheel printer), and later started building XT clones (running DR-DOS, of course).