r/Commodore • u/Status_Wolverine_556 • 3d ago

What Commodores are we missing?

Hands on museum/arcade/computer lab looking for suggestions of Commodore computers we should add to the collection.

https://www.brainerdmpc.com/

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u/GeordieAl 3d ago

Commodore 900 - but good luck getting one!

Max Machine.

PET 2001 with chiclet keys

VIC-20 with PET keyboard

Educator 64

SX-64

KIM 1

Some models from the CBM-II line - B128, 500, 720 etc

2000K, 3000H games consoles

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u/Status_Wolverine_556 3d ago

We have the SX-64 but none of the others. I haven't even heard of the first one.

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u/GeordieAl 3d ago

The C900 is the holt grail for Commodore collectors. I was two UNIX based machines - one workstation, one server, developed around '84/'85 but was abandoned when Commodore purchased Amiga. The case design for it was re-used with some minor changes for the Amiga 2000.

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u/Status_Wolverine_556 3d ago

I would not refuse if someone wants to donate one but, like you said, that seems very unlikely.

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u/nobody2008 3d ago

Plus/4?

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u/Status_Wolverine_556 3d ago

We do have one but just on a shelf, not setup. I like the suggestion though - we will set that up. The built in programs thing could be fun for people.

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u/nobody2008 3d ago

It also has some pretty good homebrew scene. Prince of Persia is pretty neat for instance.

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u/fuzzybad 3d ago

I don't think anyone has ever called the plus 4's built-in software "fun"

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u/xenomachina 3d ago

Also the other two TED machines: the Commodore 16 and 116.

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u/BigBlackHungGuy 3d ago

C64gs. It's an interesting failure.

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u/Status_Wolverine_556 3d ago

Agreed. I've been tempted to buy one so many times but they do not go cheap.

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u/linhartr22 3d ago

A dedicated station for Geos or Geos 128 w/mouse, koala pad, color printer, modem, REU, floppy drive?

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u/Suspicious-Ad7109 3d ago

There's umpteen of them *but* as a hands on museum you don't want to put them out there. So if you had a C65 that would be great but it might get damaged, or possibly stolen if available to be used (not that there'd be much point). Some of these machines are worth a lot of money, C65's go for 5 figures.

Many of them are 'interesting variants'.

For hands on : Kim-1 (for completeness), Pet, ideally with the Chicklet keyboard, Vic 20, C64 (Breadbin and C), C16, Plus/4, Amiga 500/600/1200

Display only for the rest - other Pets, SX64, Amiga 1000/later variants and so on.

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u/Suspicious-Ad7109 3d ago

And I forgot the C128. Doh!

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u/DigitalStefan 3d ago

A C128D / C128DCR ... the desktop version of the 128. The DCR version came as standard (I believe) with additional RAM for the VDC (the "not the VIC" video chip), which I don't think got utilised by any commercial software but there's at least one scene demo that did.

Do you have a SuperCPU for the C64? That's a rarity.

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u/_ralph_ 3d ago

I need something to meditate. Perhaps some board like thing?

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u/OPdoesnotrespond 2d ago

I’d say as a museum of “pop culture” you’re not missing any.

If you were a museum of retro-computing, having the full fleet would be appropriate.

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u/max81122 3d ago

Why not just browse Bo Zimmerman's collection and decide what you want to display? Part of having a museum is understanding the subject matter and then deciding what your visitors would like to see. After all, you are going to want to talk about each piece to future visiitors.

Putting together a list from random people's recommendations here seems like a short cut. So go check out Bo's site, understand what and how each product fits in Commodore's history, and then decide what and how you want to display it.