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From: onymouse@netcom.UUCP (John Debert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Machines that never saw the light of day
Message-ID: <17963@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 90 07:37:38 GMT
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From article <61@mixcom.UUCP>, by cyaa01@mixcom.UUCP (Chris Klausmeier):
> 
> Ahhh... it's really pickng up in here!
> 
> I've seen articles about these "new" CBM computers in some old
> Transactors. Could anyone give some vital stats on these things, if they
> were even produced, any trivial facts on them, etc.
> 
> o 1551
> 
 THis was apparently actually produced by CBM but never were sold in
 North America. Probably couldn't pass FCC part 15 or DOC regs.
 It is designed for use with the Plus/4 and features DMA and fast access. It
 plugged into the expansion port of the Plus/4, which has a non-standard 
 edge connector - 44 or 50 pin ( I forget which) on 0.75-inch centers.

 I would like to find one, or, at the very least, a service and/or technical
 manual. Commodore, typically, is most uncooperative.
> Are there any other machines that Commodore was going to release but
> scrapped? Enquiring minds want to know! Thanks!
> -- 
 I seem to recall that CBM was working on a new version of the C64 (not the
 64C) with some enhanced capabilities (and not the 128, either) but that
 was apparently dropped also, for some reason.

jd
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