Commodore.ca: The PET, VIC, 128, 64 & More Forum

Hi,

I am looking for any CBM-II (B or P-series) or PET-SK (8296, 8296D) machines for my collection. Prefer high-profile or SK machines (built-in monitors). I will take non-working machines as well.

Steve
"The Commodore CBM-II Page"

Hi Steve;

Nice to see you are still moving the C= circles.

I look forward to your new site. Feel free to post a link and comments in this forum.

As for your SK's, we have nothing available at this time... sorry!

administrator wrote:Hi Steve;

Nice to see you are still moving the C= circles.

I look forward to your new site. Feel free to post a link and comments in this forum.

As for your SK's, we have nothing available at this time... sorry!

I found an 8296 in the UK on ebay. Brand new in box. It would have cost over $300 canadian to ship it to me. Decided that was too much. The unit ended up selling for a ridiculous price anyway. Shows that they are still around if you look though.

I picked up a B128 from ebay a couple weeks ago.

Steve

Steve,

Do you think you might be interested in showing and/or giving a demonstration of some of your more obscure Commodore comptuers at the World of Commodore? Even if not, you should still come and check out the festivities.

gklinger wrote:Steve,

Do you think you might be interested in showing and/or giving a demonstration of some of your more obscure Commodore comptuers at the World of Commodore? Even if not, you should still come and check out the festivities.

I have the WOC show written on my calendar. The thought crossed my mind to go. I remember going to all the old shows at the International Center in Malton. We'll have to see if I can make it.

I'm not sure about demos. The only obscure machine I have would be my CBM-II prototype. I do have the P500 but I would classify that as rare not obscure Do SFD-1001 drives count? Or perhaps a C128DCR?

Steve

gklinger wrote:Steve,

Do you think you might be interested in showing and/or giving a demonstration of some of your more obscure Commodore comptuers at the World of Commodore? Even if not, you should still come and check out the festivities.

Hey, I managed to get to the show. Could only stay for the morning though and had to leave (12:30 or so). I saw your nametag on the table on my way out. Sorry I missed you.

Picked up a broken C128DCR for $40. Powers up but doesn't access the internal drive. Has a JiffyDOS 128D ROM in the machine so not sure if that is the problem or maybe it's one of the other chips. Picked up a 1581 drive (complete) as well as two 1581 kits (no drive mechanism). Also picked up a few freebees! All in all an interesting show. Nice to meet some fellow Commodore people.

Steve

sjgray wrote:Hey, I managed to get to the show. Could only stay for the morning though and had to leave (12:30 or so). I saw your nametag on the table on my way out. Sorry I missed you.

The funny thing is that I was there from 9am on Saturday. I just forgot to go get my nametag until sometime in the mid-afternoon. D'oh! We probably walked past each other multiple times without knowing what one another looked like (I'm the second guy from the right in this photo). Oh well. I guess we'll meet up at the next World of Commodore.

gklinger wrote: The funny thing is that I was there from 9am on Saturday. I just forgot to go get my nametag until sometime in the mid-afternoon. D'oh! We probably walked past each other multiple times without knowing what one another looked like (I'm the second guy from the right in this photo). Oh well. I guess we'll meet up at the next World of Commodore.

Ya, I saw you. If I recall, you were mostly in the test area in the morning. But you weren't the only one NOT wearing a nametag...
I wear glasses and had on a brown seude jacket.

Steve

Getting back to the original topic... I see that the guy who bought that mint condition CBM8296 machine from the UK was from Toronto and now re-selling it for US $2,750.00 (about $3,250 canadian). Is this insane or what?

Steve

Where is he selling it? On eBay? If you've got a URL or something, I would be interested to read the details.

I saw that one on Ebay also. Granted that seems like a very rare Commodore, but that price is pretty steep to me. Unfortunate that it had to be taken out of the box .

To answer my own question...

CBM 8296 on eBay.

sjgray: Do you know what he paid for that computer? I'm curious how big of a gouge this guy is going for.

Is it worth that much?

For me I have the most sentimental attachments to the 64 and 128 models of commodore, and would have hundreds if I could.

Those old CBM models don't really interest me but as a collector I would consider purchasing it as it is not often you see something like that new in box.

This looks like a unit that was sold from the UK to someone in Ontario back in 2001ish. I think they paid about $1000.

It is a sweet unit but it just is not worth >$1500 .

The old auction I saw was from a guy in the UK. I contacted him when the auction first started to get a shipping quote. I was quoted a range of 130 to 170 GBP which I would have considered paying if the unit sold for a reasonable price. It didn't....

Ebay ID= 220048472119
sold for GBP 650 ($1,274 US), winner zizmo1
Original ebay auction finished Nov 19th,06

zizmo1 is the ID for this new one...
Ebay ID= 320078376265

The pictures are exactly the same in both.

Lucily, I was able to pick up a CBM8296 machine last month. It's not in great shape cosmetically... the keyboard and monitor are tan but the main unit is white, plus it had a few stickers and permanent marker writings. It does however work fine. Still looking for more machines in this style case (even if dead)...

Steve