I purchased this poor thing last week. After some initial mucking about, life was breathed into it once more. I had a a bit of fun getting the keyboard working but now she’s 100% operational and a welcome addition to the collection.
If you’re unfamiliar with the VIC-20, it was Commodore’s entry to the home computer market and a pre-cursor to the wildly successful C64. The VIC, despite boasting colour and sound at a time that the ZX81 was considered exotic, was held back to 3.5k of RAM (expandable to 16K) and poor resolution. Nevertheless, it was, and still is, a cracking little computer that saw the likes of Llamasoft’s Jeff Minter cutting their teeth in the gaming world.
