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   On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 5:04:01 PM UTC-4, rber...@iglou.com wrote:   
   > Just released is the "Vintage Commodore 128 Personal Computer Handbook: 2019   
   Survival Edition" by Margaret Gorts Morabito.  Recommended by CBM engineer Bil   
   Herd with a foreword from him, the book is both for C128 beginner and pro,   
   telling about the    
   basics of usage and updating about the newest developments for this computer.   
   >    
   > To order the book or the Kindle version, go to   
   >    
   > https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Commodore-Personal-Computer-Han   
   book/dp/1090260814?fbclid=IwAR0aGwEsGTOGvJVzhC_J3ON8QgBvizLD-hn8   
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   > I'm getting mine,   
   > Robert Bernardo   
   > April 27-28 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show - http://www.port   
   ommodore.com/class   
   > June 8-9 Pacific Commodore Expo NW - http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex   
   > August 10-11 Commodore Vegas Expo v15 - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex   
      
      
   About the book...   
      
   I received mine Saturday.  I haven't read all of it yet, but it seems to be   
   pretty good so far.  However, I do have to say it's not as good as the Apple   
   II Reference Guide that was released a few years ago.   
      
   But, for the money, it's a pretty good deal.  Especially since there aren't   
   many C128 books around...not to mention NEW books about the C128.  So   
   definitely worth getting.   
      
   I do have one quibble with something I read so far.  In the book, the author   
   compares the C128 to the Apple IIc.  The author compares the two computers and   
   one thing she says is that the C128 has expandable memory but the IIc does not.   
      
   This is not correct.  There were several memory expansion devices for the   
   IIc.  In fact, I have one.  I admit, however, that expanding the memory in the   
   C128 is easy as cake (you just plug the REU (or cart) in).  The IIc was more   
   difficult.  But not    
   impossible.  The hardest part is taking the case apart.  Once you pop the top   
   of the case off, the rest is pretty easy.     
      
   The expansion card I have for the IIc has 512KiB of RAM, a RTC and even a Z80   
   processor for CP/M.  It's just a card that goes into the CPU socket.   
      
   Anyway, just a minor quibble.   
      
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