deskthority

Today I picked up 2 commodore 64 sx computers from craigslist. 1 he said was working, and the other he said would get video but wasn't working properly.

Anyways, I hardly know anything about them. I know the keyboards themselves aren't anything special, but is there any interest in these? I'm not into vintage computing, just couldn't pass up free.

It's really not worth taking the computer from the machine, the keyboards kinda suck. You mind as well sell the machines.

I agree that is would be best to sell them as complete as possible. There are indeed people who collect these.

As always, the better the condition the more money you could get for one. Selling the keyboard with the machine is therefore important.

I'm interested in both PM me if you don't mind shipping.

I'd love one but it's not worth shipping over here.

Some pictures, from Guru in Australia:

[wiki]Commodore SX-64[/wiki]

Curious keyboard — this may fall under Findecanor's umbrella of Mitsumi hybrid, specifically the "Coiled spring over membrane" type (whatever that is), although it's not a membrane by the normal definition.

Mitsumi hybrid "works much in the same way as a foam-and-foil switch except that other materials are used and the switch is not capacitive", which is a hilariously meaningless description. I assume this just means that the return spring is external, which is now less novel that it was a few years ago, although still comparatively unusual.

The Commodore (PET) 8032-SK has another Mitsumi type that really is a sort of "rubber dome on a stick" — just how much we would want to cram onto the hybrid page, I don't know. I've not added the 8032-SK photos from Guru yet.