Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Unobtainium!...

Dataspan-50 expansion board for Commodore VIC-20.
Dataspan-50

Only a fellow neomaxizoomdweebie (ultimate modern nerd), like me, could fully appreciate something as cool as this retro expansion board. Unobtainium at its finest, and now its mine.  Just look at that rotary selector!  From 1982.

- 5-slot expansion. 
- Write-protection on two slots.  
- Fully buffered. 
- System reset. 
- Gold contacts. 
- Fused. 

   
Rotisserie cartridge selection!
Gold; buffers; switches and slots.

 
Rare, magazine, print ad.

I have additional VIC-20 material over on my web site: http://www.geocities.ws/cbm
 
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