From: MauroRetroHC on 4 May 2010 17:39 On this page http://www.flickr.com/photos/commodorealive are the pictures of this variant yet unknown to me. I wanted to call it, of course, "joints" because, instead of screws, on the frame and fixing the keyboard there are interlocking hooks. Regards. Mauro
From: Payton Byrd on 4 May 2010 20:33 On May 4, 4:39 pm, MauroRetroHC <maurorau...(a)yahoo.it> wrote: > On this pagehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/commodorealiveare the > pictures of this variant yet unknown to me. I wanted to call it, of > course, "joints" because, instead of screws, on the frame and fixing > the keyboard there are interlocking hooks. > Regards. > Mauro Wow, talk about cost reduction! Not having to buy screws or pay the labor to install them would have saved C= a ton of money. There's a reason the C64 was so profitable that it sold well into the 90's.
From: David Murray on 5 May 2010 10:19 > Wow, talk about cost reduction! Not having to buy screws or pay the > labor to install them would have saved C= a ton of money. There's a > reason the C64 was so profitable that it sold well into the 90's. I'm not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic. But I actually like that design. My unfortunate experience has been that many of the C64 units I have acquired in one form or another have screws that are either stripped out (the pastic part, not the screw itself) or have the wrong screws or no screws at all. So if this design would allow decently easy opening of the case without using those screws, then great.
From: Øyvind on 5 May 2010 10:22 On 5 Mai, 16:19, David Murray <adri...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Wow, talk about cost reduction! Not having to buy screws or pay the > > labor to install them would have saved C= a ton of money. There's a > > reason the C64 was so profitable that it sold well into the 90's. > > I'm not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic. But I actually > like that design. My unfortunate experience has been that many of the > C64 units I have acquired in one form or another have screws that are > either stripped out (the pastic part, not the screw itself) or have > the wrong screws or no screws at all. So if this design would allow > decently easy opening of the case without using those screws, then > great. My first C64C was of this design. Prefer it to the screws like David says. -- Øyvind
From: Clocky on 5 May 2010 10:29
�yvind wrote: > On 5 Mai, 16:19, David Murray <adri...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Wow, talk about cost reduction! Not having to buy screws or pay the >>> labor to install them would have saved C= a ton of money. There's a >>> reason the C64 was so profitable that it sold well into the 90's. >> >> I'm not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic. But I actually >> like that design. My unfortunate experience has been that many of the >> C64 units I have acquired in one form or another have screws that are >> either stripped out (the pastic part, not the screw itself) or have >> the wrong screws or no screws at all. So if this design would allow >> decently easy opening of the case without using those screws, then >> great. > > My first C64C was of this design. Prefer it to the screws like David > says. It's interesting because I'm in Australia and a lot of our C64C's were produced in Asia yet I haven't come across that case before. |