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From: rayz@csustan.UUCP (R. L. Zarling)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: using the c64 in a car...
Message-ID: <128@csustan.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 16:50:49 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  9 16:50:49 1986
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In article <659@usc-oberon.UUCP> spencer@usc-oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer) writes:
>Is there *any* way to take the c64 and use it in a car?  It needs, what a 
>12v and a 9v power supply (or a 9 and a 5?).  Does it really *have* to be 
>getting it AC?

It normally uses 5 volts dc (1 1/2 amp) and 9 volts ac.  I don't know of
any reason the 9 volts has to be ac, but (unlike the VIC) the voltages *must*
be correct!  In the C64, Commodore moved the primary voltage regulator for
the 5 volt supply into the power supply box, so the computer expects to see
the voltage already regulated.  At the least, you would have to add some
kind of voltage regulator IC to drop the car's 12-14 volts to 5 volts.