Commodore Vic - 20 Personal Home Computer With Box Complete W/ Game
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:44414110 | Model: Commodore VIC-20 |
| Vintage: Yes | Type: Home Computer |
| Brand: Commodore |
Early Commodore Vic-20 Personal Home Computer with Original Box (Not tested)This Commodore personal computer is a complete package with all instructions, cords, and power supplyIncluded in the box is a copy of Adventure Land written by Scott AdamsThe box does show some heavy wear and tear but the unit itself is in great shape.Untested, but I was assured by the elderly woman I purchased from that it was functioning fine.Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
______________________________...______________________________________________________________________________The Commodore VIC-20 (known as the VC-20 in Germany and the VIC-1001 in Japan) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, [3] roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PET. The VIC-20 was the first computer of any description to sell one million units.[4] It was described as "one of the first anti-spectatorial, non-esoteric computers by design...no longer relegated to hobbyist/enthusiasts or those with money, the computer Commodore developed was the computer of the future."[5]The VIC-20 was called VC-20 in Germany because the pronunciation of VIC with a German accent sounds like the German expletives "fick" or "wichsen".[6][7] The term VC was marketed as though it was an abbreviation of VolksComputer ("people's computer, " similar to Volkswagen and Volksempfänger).[8]The VIC-20 shipped with 5 KB RAM, but 1.5 KB of this is used for the video display and dynamic aspects of the ROM-resident Commodore BASIC and KERNAL (a low-level operating system). Only 3583 bytes of BASIC program memory for code and variables are actually available on an unexpanded machine.Ports and sockets[edit]The VIC-20 has card edge connectors for program/expansion cartridges and a PET-standard Datassette tape drive. The VIC-20 did not originally have a disk drive; the VIC-1540 disk drive was released in 1981.The side of the computer showing the joystick "control port"There is one Atari joystick port, compatible with the digital joysticks and paddles used with Atari VCS and Atari 8-bit family;[19] a serial CBM-488 bus (a serial version of the PET's IEEE-488 bus) for daisy chaining disk drives and printers; a TTL-level "user port" with both RS-232 and Centronics signals (most frequently used as RS-232, for connecting a modem[20]).The VIC has a ROM cartridge port for games and other software as well as for adding memory to the machine. Port expander boxes from Commodore and other vendors allow more than one cartridge to be attached at a time. Cartridge size ranges from 4–16 KB in size, although the latter was uncommon due to its cost.The VIC-20 can be hooked into external electronic circuitry via joystick port, the "user port, " or the memory expansion–cartridge port, which exposes various analog to digital, memory bus, and other internal I/O circuits to the experimenter. PEEK and POKE commands from BASIC can be used to perform data acquisition from temperature sensors, control robotic stepper motors, etc.
______________________________...______________________________________________________________________________The Commodore VIC-20 (known as the VC-20 in Germany and the VIC-1001 in Japan) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, [3] roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PET. The VIC-20 was the first computer of any description to sell one million units.[4] It was described as "one of the first anti-spectatorial, non-esoteric computers by design...no longer relegated to hobbyist/enthusiasts or those with money, the computer Commodore developed was the computer of the future."[5]The VIC-20 was called VC-20 in Germany because the pronunciation of VIC with a German accent sounds like the German expletives "fick" or "wichsen".[6][7] The term VC was marketed as though it was an abbreviation of VolksComputer ("people's computer, " similar to Volkswagen and Volksempfänger).[8]The VIC-20 shipped with 5 KB RAM, but 1.5 KB of this is used for the video display and dynamic aspects of the ROM-resident Commodore BASIC and KERNAL (a low-level operating system). Only 3583 bytes of BASIC program memory for code and variables are actually available on an unexpanded machine.Ports and sockets[edit]The VIC-20 has card edge connectors for program/expansion cartridges and a PET-standard Datassette tape drive. The VIC-20 did not originally have a disk drive; the VIC-1540 disk drive was released in 1981.The side of the computer showing the joystick "control port"There is one Atari joystick port, compatible with the digital joysticks and paddles used with Atari VCS and Atari 8-bit family;[19] a serial CBM-488 bus (a serial version of the PET's IEEE-488 bus) for daisy chaining disk drives and printers; a TTL-level "user port" with both RS-232 and Centronics signals (most frequently used as RS-232, for connecting a modem[20]).The VIC has a ROM cartridge port for games and other software as well as for adding memory to the machine. Port expander boxes from Commodore and other vendors allow more than one cartridge to be attached at a time. Cartridge size ranges from 4–16 KB in size, although the latter was uncommon due to its cost.The VIC-20 can be hooked into external electronic circuitry via joystick port, the "user port, " or the memory expansion–cartridge port, which exposes various analog to digital, memory bus, and other internal I/O circuits to the experimenter. PEEK and POKE commands from BASIC can be used to perform data acquisition from temperature sensors, control robotic stepper motors, etc.
