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Subject: Commodore-64 CP/M: Is it robust ?!
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 07:59:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 07:59:38 1985
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Date:    Thu,  7-NOV-1985 07:44 EST
To:      INFO-CPM@BRL.Arpa
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Organization: Science Applications Int'l. Corp., Oak Ridge, Tenn.
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I am  interested  in  hearing  your  experiences  with  Commodore-64 CP/M. I
recently  purchased  an  SX-64  (a portable also know as the "Executive 64",
manufactured  by  Commodore  and  discontinued). I of course wanted the CP/M
option, which was difficult to scrounge up at this late date.  But I won.

Anyway, I  seemed  to  have  heat  problems with the cartridge, and after an
afternoon with a can of chip freeze, I isolated one errant chip and replaced
it.

Now it  seems  to  cruze  along  okay,  but  after 20 or 30 minutes of work,
sometimes more, it dies right as I do a disk I/O. So I wasted another can of
chip  freeze  to  no  avail,  and  now I'm wondering if the SX-64 maybe just
doesn't have as much power available as a real '64.

Can somebody  vouch  for  CBM-64  CP/M  ?  How about on an SX-64 ? Thanks in
advance.

Richard Secrist
SECRIST%OAK.SAInet.MFEnet@LLL-MFE.Arpa

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