From: MauroRetroHC on
On this page http://www.flickr.com/photos/commodorealive are the
pictures of this variant yet unknown to me. I wanted to call it, of
course, "joints" because, instead of screws, on the frame and fixing
the keyboard there are interlocking hooks.
Regards.
Mauro
From: Payton Byrd on
On May 4, 4:39 pm, MauroRetroHC <maurorau...(a)yahoo.it> wrote:
> On this pagehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/commodorealiveare the
> pictures of this variant yet unknown to me. I wanted to call it, of
> course, "joints" because, instead of screws, on the frame and fixing
> the keyboard there are interlocking hooks.
> Regards.
>            Mauro

Wow, talk about cost reduction! Not having to buy screws or pay the
labor to install them would have saved C= a ton of money. There's a
reason the C64 was so profitable that it sold well into the 90's.
From: David Murray on

> Wow, talk about cost reduction!  Not having to buy screws or pay the
> labor to install them would have saved C= a ton of money.  There's a
> reason the C64 was so profitable that it sold well into the 90's.

I'm not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic. But I actually
like that design. My unfortunate experience has been that many of the
C64 units I have acquired in one form or another have screws that are
either stripped out (the pastic part, not the screw itself) or have
the wrong screws or no screws at all. So if this design would allow
decently easy opening of the case without using those screws, then
great.
From: Øyvind on
On 5 Mai, 16:19, David Murray <adri...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Wow, talk about cost reduction!  Not having to buy screws or pay the
> > labor to install them would have saved C= a ton of money.  There's a
> > reason the C64 was so profitable that it sold well into the 90's.
>
> I'm not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic.  But I actually
> like that design.  My unfortunate experience has been that many of the
> C64 units I have acquired in one form or another have screws that are
> either stripped out (the pastic part, not the screw itself) or have
> the wrong screws or no screws at all.   So if this design would allow
> decently easy opening of the case without using those screws, then
> great.

My first C64C was of this design. Prefer it to the screws like David
says.

--
Øyvind
From: Clocky on
�yvind wrote:
> On 5 Mai, 16:19, David Murray <adri...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Wow, talk about cost reduction! Not having to buy screws or pay the
>>> labor to install them would have saved C= a ton of money. There's a
>>> reason the C64 was so profitable that it sold well into the 90's.
>>
>> I'm not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic. But I actually
>> like that design. My unfortunate experience has been that many of the
>> C64 units I have acquired in one form or another have screws that are
>> either stripped out (the pastic part, not the screw itself) or have
>> the wrong screws or no screws at all. So if this design would allow
>> decently easy opening of the case without using those screws, then
>> great.
>
> My first C64C was of this design. Prefer it to the screws like David
> says.

It's interesting because I'm in Australia and a lot of our C64C's were
produced in Asia yet I haven't come across that case before.