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  • Re: Commodore users in Japan?

    From Hidehiko Ogata@hog@aqu.bekkoame.ne.jp to comp.sys.cbm on Tuesday, July 01, 2003 00:30:04
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    *raise a hand*

    (I'm an Atari8/Amiga kind of guy morelike though.)
    --
    // }{idehiko ()gata "I'm not like other people.
    \X/ Amiga since '86 I can't stand pain.
    It hurts me." - Daffy Duck
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  • From Andrew Wiskow@3355217504@jcom.home.ne.jp to comp.sys.cbm on Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:47:32
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    Lucky for me, I don't have to worry about international shipping rates... I have a military FPO address, so anything shipped to me here in Japan from
    the U.S. is at regular domestic rates.

    And for people that have asked me to keep an eye out for Japanese C-64's and VIC-1001's, if I ever come across one, the first one will be for me! If I
    come across more than one, I'll more than likely put it up on eBay. I don't speak Japanese well enough to post messages on any Japanese message boards,
    and I've never seen any shops with any "vintage" computer equipment during
    the years I've lived in Japan. In general, Japanese people tend to buy new things every year (this being pretty much everything, from home
    enteratinment equipment, to computers, to appliances... even cars!), and whatever they replaced gets thrown in the trash. Sadly, this means that
    there are probably VERY few Japanese C-64's and VIC-1001's out there, as
    most of them probably ended up in landfills long ago.

    For now, anyway, I'll just have to keep myself content with my American "import" C-64. :-)

    -Andrew


    "rebocardo" <bii@dscga.com> escreveu na mensagem news:PK6dncfrEqpLJ2KjXTWJgA@dscga.com...
    Yes, I sold a MSD on E-BAY to someone in Japan. Shipping was almost $50 surface!




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  • From Hidehiko Ogata@hog@aqu.bekkoame.ne.jp to comp.sys.cbm on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 16:45:07
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    Andrew Wiskow wrote:

    In general, Japanese people tend to buy new
    things every year (this being pretty much everything, from home
    enteratinment equipment, to computers, to appliances... even cars!), and whatever they replaced gets thrown in the trash.

    Not this Japanese! ;)

    Sadly, this means that
    there are probably VERY few Japanese C-64's and VIC-1001's out there, as
    most of them probably ended up in landfills long ago.

    Sadly most likely.
    --
    // }{idehiko ()gata "I'm not like other people.
    \X/ Amiga since '86 I can't stand pain.
    It hurts me." - Daffy Duck
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  • From hanley_chris@hanley_chris@yahoo.com.au (hanley_chris) to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, July 07, 2003 08:28:52
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    I live in Japan ! and Ive seen some C64's for sale on Yahoo. They went
    for 15 000 yen with no software. I have an old C64 from the U.S.

    I did see one old Commodore PET in den den town in Osaka but the shop
    wanted 56 000 yen for it !
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  • From Paul Foerster@paul.foerster@gmx.net to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, July 07, 2003 17:36:19
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    Hey Chris,

    I did see one old Commodore PET in den den town in Osaka but the shop
    wanted 56 000 yen for it !

    ... Do you know if there is a special PET/CBM version for Japan? I mean,
    one with special characters and/or a special keyboard?
    --
    cul8er,

    Paul
    paul.foerster@gmx.net

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  • From hanley_chris@hanley_chris@yahoo.com.au (hanley_chris) to comp.sys.cbm on Tuesday, July 08, 2003 03:11:14
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    Paul Foerster wrote > >> ... Do you know if there is a special PET/CBM
    version for Japan? I mean,
    one with special characters and/or a special keyboard?

    I believe that it had a english/japanese keyboard like "apple macs"
    have ! It was running but the characters were in English.

    On the keyboard, each key has a english character and just below it is
    a japanese kana character.

    Thats all that I can remember (apart from the 56 000 yen price - about
    500 US $)

    On yahoo Japan - there is a PET machine for auction now as well as a
    CD32 and an Amiga 1200 !
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  • From Paul Foerster@paul.foerster@gmx.net to comp.sys.cbm on Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:18:51
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    Hey Chris,

    On the keyboard, each key has a english character and just below it is
    a japanese kana character.

    ... oh, I didn't know that. All one hears about is the VIC-1001 and the Japanese 64. But that IMHO just can't be all.

    On yahoo Japan - there is a PET machine for auction now as well as a
    CD32 and an Amiga 1200 !

    ... yes, and the problem with 99.9999% of Japanese people is that they
    don't ship worldwide and that either we don't speak Japanese or they
    don't speak any other language than Japanese. :-(
    --
    cul8er,

    Paul
    paul.foerster@gmx.net

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