Drop me a line if you have a spare,

I have been looking around for more information on this and have found somebody else with a similar board.

http://www.forum64.de/wbb3/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=20603&pageNo=1

Quote from: RobertB on February 18, 2009, 11:40 AM

Quote from: SmallCleverDinosaur on February 18, 2009, 05:56 AMYes, they are very uncommon in Europe...

I've seen very few PAL SX-64's.  However, NTSC SX-64's seem to be more common.  Case in point, we've been raffling off a NTSC SX-64 each year at CommVEx for the last few shows (and selling SX-64's at the Vintage Computer Festival, too).

                Truly,
                Robert Bernardo
                Fresno Commodore User Group
                http://videocam.net.au/fcug
                CommVEx v5 info - http://www.commodore.ca/forum and click on ComVEX

That is quite unbelievable, raffling an sx-64 :-)  I'm coming along to the next one :-).  Robert, can you recommend anywhere I can obtain spares for the one I am restoring (other than ebay)?  I am mainly looking for cosmetic spares (keyboard latch, keyboard cable etc) rather than IC's and boards.

I would certainly like to restore it to as orignial as possible with ceramic chips if available.

Also I checked my cases and none have c128cr written on them, problem is when I removed the mainboard I didnt realise its importance and the case could now be one of 4 :-( There are 2 German cases, 1 English and 1 Hong Kong, I will try to work it out, but I guess they may not be original anyway. 

I have attached a picture of the board for you to take a look, I have never seen a c128dcr board so who knows this could one of them. 

:-) Yay at last a bit of luck on my side!!

It is definitely from a C128 flat because it came from a flat style case which I am sure also reads C128cr alongside the serial (I will check this to confirm).  The main board also has more model information on the silkscreen (Fabrication Number and Revision), I will post all the info and pictures this weekend so you can take a look.

Now I know a little more about this, I am very keen to getting it up and running.  Airship, do you know of anywhere (other than ebay) where I may be able to find the ceramics?

Hi All,

I have just picked up a C128 mainboard that appears to be the same type as Ray Carlsens engineering board http://www.cbmhardware.de/c128/schematics/c128cr.jpg.

It has the kernal roms missing and no VIC /VDIC so havent been able to test whether its working.

I have read a few articles that suggest this never entered mass production and was also never released in europe, but I wonder how accurate this is? Does anyone have any further information about these boards?

Thanks
Gazcbm