Subj : Re: Vintage Commodore 128 Personal Computer Handbook
To   : rber...@iglou.com
From : cbmeeks
Date : Mon Mar 25 2019 06:39 am

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-Handbook/dp/1090260814?fbclid=IwAR0aGwEsGTOGvJVzhC_J3ON8QgBvizLD-hn88Bn5cjS9r6e4Wr_0bVNTV0U
> 
> I'm getting mine,
> Robert Bernardo
> April 27-28 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show - 
http://www.portcommodore.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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