Bringing back memories - LOL. I had a back in the day which was a sweet deal.
My SX needs a keyboard, it has a new CRT analog board and I upgraded the kernel to jiffy dos and added a reset circuit with a switch to disable drive reset. I have a soft spot for 80s lug-ables, they need to make a comeback.
I really enjoyed mine. It was fun back in the day to have such a mobile unit. I'd had Atari's before I got that, the last being an 800 if I recall and then I found the SX-64 on a close out sale on one of the online 'puter sites. I would've never been able to afford it otherwise, but it was one of those dirt cheap deals on a brand new one ... I guess they had a hard time selling them at the high retail price they originally sold for. Great machine ... but it gave up the ghost for me after a good long use when the keyboard cable went. I tried to repair, but with no success ... and a new one at the time cost almost as much as I paid for the whole computer, so I moved on. I took that thing everywhere and used it constantly, it was a fun toy. After that I think I just started building my own IBM clones. The day of Commodore/Atari had come and was by then gone.
I never had one back in the day but when I lived in Texas I would frequent a local C= usergroup that would get together at a 80s heavy metal themed pizza joint with a bunch of arcade gear. There were two guys who would bring totally kited out SX rigs and I knew I had to have one. Fun times with a pitcher of beer, pizza, and huddling up to a small CRT to play games or look at some assembler code.
The keyboard seems to be a weak factor in the SX and the 128D. I have three 128 desktops and only one of the keyboards functions after much repair. Perhaps somebody will take it upon themselves to make a new version of both with clicky keys like Kipper2k for the Amiga 500/1200.
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