From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: your.name@isp.com   
   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
      
   "Quadibloc"  wrote in message   
   news:8ce9f28b-31ae-4929-b28c-8a4e00605239@u1g2000pre.googlegroups.com...   
   On Nov 19, 11:04 pm, "Your Name"  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > The VIC-20 *was* "the best thing since warp drive". We had one which was   
   > > later upgraded to a C64, and then my brother bought an Amiga 500 ... and   
   > > then Commodore was destroyed by inept and incompetent management, so we   
   > > moved to Apple Macs.   
   >   
   > I certainly can't understand the grounds for complaint.   
   >   
   > After all, Isaac Asimov was encouraging people to buy Radio Shack   
   > computers - and Bill Cosby appeared in ads for the TI 99/4. (And I   
   > didn't even have to Google those up!)   
   >   
   > I didn't know you could upgrade a VIC-20 to a Commodore 64; I thought   
   > you just had to go out and buy a Commodore 64. Although it _is_ true   
   > they both connected to some of the same add-on equipment, including   
   > the 1571 floppy disk drive.   
      
   I meant "upgraded" as in "replaced with a newer model", rather than opened   
   up and swapped the CPU for a newer one ... although, technically the VIC-20   
   and original C64 (not the newer slimline one, and people think PS3 were the   
   first to do that!) did have the same case design, so it may well be possible   
   to replace the entire circuit board inside the VIC-20 case with a C64 board.   
   :-)   
      
   You could of course upgrade the VIC-20 with more RAM by plugging a memory   
   cartridge into the back.   
      
      
      
      
      
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