The Commodore SX-64 was announced in January 1983 and released a year later and sadly enough discontinued in 1986. So January would be a perfect opportunity to celebrate however we can schedule parties al year long… or even untill 2016, which is a little far fetched. So when January is not the best of the year, wintertime, feel free to schedule another time 😉 .
Let’s keep up with the Commodore especially on the anniversary of the executive, luggable edition of the best computer ever. So therefor i would like to propose a semi-virtual meeting, to keep our eco-footprint as low a possible, by meeting up with some friends and their SX64 in a local cafe. Click here to find your local coffee brewer and join the #SX64party flashmob.
Why shouldn’t we rejoice the 30th anniversary of the good old Commodore SX-64 at a place where the corporate suits and students show off their latest gazillon-megahertz lapware? Just bring your SX-64 along and enjoy a coffee, first round is on me, when i am physically at the venue.
What can you nowadays do with your SX-64? At least everything you need is in the box. Take some pleasure of enjoying demos, play a game with your friends or ever do some serious accounting with your friends. And if our are really eager Twittering on the Commodore (SX-)64 is still an option. So you don’t have to let go on your daily habits 🙂
So if you like this idea, please sign up and drag your gear to your local, or not so nearby coffee-club and have some fun! First coffee is on me, when i am also in the vicinity.
Information:
CSDB entry: Executive SX-64 c*ffee gathering
Dutch flyer: SX64Party Flyer Dutch
English flyer: SX64Party Flyer English
20-januari-2013 @ 14:00 hours – Amsterdam/The Netherlands
Organised by: berrydejager.com and 6510.nl
Venue: Starbucks ‘laboratory concept store’ – The Bank, Utrechtsestraat 9,1017 VH , Amsterdam
Unfortunately this demo is not run on a genuine SX64 thus showing the
“PLEASE VISIT EBAY AND BUY A REAL SX-64”
caption. Real SX-64 hardware detection works ;-). Thanks to the_kracker_jax_revealed_trilogy documentation, check out page 75.
Please download the demo and try it: SX64Party demo released by 6510.nl
Party people and their luggables:
- Berry, SX-64
iKilledHer,SX-64- Ddw,SX-64
- Sander, SX-64
Timbob, SX-64- MR.SID, laptop VICE64 using SX-ROMs
Robby Boey, SX-64- Ferenc, SX-64
- Fierman, SX-64
- Fred, SX-64
- Mace, SX-64
- Groente, SX-64
20-januari-2013 – Fresno, California/USA
Organised by: FCUG meeting
Venue: Bobby Salazar’s Mexican Restaurant in Fresno/California
Party report: FCUG celebrates SX-64 30th anniversary!
- Robert Bernardo, SX-64
- Dick Estel, SX-64
- <unknown participant>, SX-64
- <unknown participant>, SX-64
- <unknown participant>, SX-64
20-januari-2013 – Toronto, Canada
Organised by: Toronto PET Users Group
Venue: Starbucks Coffee – Six Points Plaza
- Leif Bloomquist, SX-64
- Rob Adlers, SX-64
- Joseph/JP PBM Palumbo , SX-64
20-januari-2013 – Seattle, Washington/USA
Organised by: Portland Commodore Users Group and Puget Sound Commodore Users Group
Venue: Starbucks Coffee – Houghton II
Party reports:
http://pdxcug.org/blog.asp
http://www.thebitplanes.com/archives/91
- Goog
- Agent Friday
- Kent Sullivan
- Pinacolada
- Gsteemso
- Tim S. + 2
- Pawel K.
- Matt C.
- Archer B.
- Rob B. + 3
22-januari-2013 – Austin, Texas/USA
Organised by: Central Texas Amiga Computing Society
Venue: Conan’s Pizza – W Anderson Ln / Burnet Rd, Austin/TX
- John Herron, SX-64
- Bo Zimmerman, SX-64
- <unknown participant>, SX-64
- <unknown participant>, SX-64
- <unknown participant>, SX-64
20-januari-2013 – Ontario/Canada
Organised by: Robin Harbron
Venue: Chicago Joe’s restaurant in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Party report: Facebook: Robin Harbron – Happy Birthday, SX-64
- Robin Harbron, SX-64
- Kevin John Kuchta
- Darren Foulds
I’m in!
Sounds like fun 😀
I’ve got one… where were you planning on meeting?
Oh wait, I see.
Amsterdam is doable. Some heavy lifting in the train 😛
How many wall outlets are available? Better bring a couple of powerplugboards, how many SX-es can we run on one outlet before the fuses of Starbucks blow?
I will carry two power distributors along. My SX64 (stock) takes
only 42 Watts
running idle at 226v/0.19A. Having the drive active the power went up with another 9Watts. Pushing up the CPU to almost 100% the power consumption doesn’t spike up higher.
So the average and top consumption isn’t much higher than the average laptop.
Berry, could you prod everyone to send you pictures from their gatherings and post them? That would be great to see and we’ll mention it on the next Retro Computing Roundtable. Thanks, David
Sure, we have our own paparazzi in there 😉
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The Commodore Computer Club (www.c64club.com) based out of Vancouver, WA – USA will be getting together on January 20, 2013 at the Starbucks located in the Mill Plain Town Center located at: 16320 SE Mill Plain Blvd. STE 101 Vancouver, WA 98684 (http://www.starbucks.com/store/13055/). If you’re in the area, come hang out with us. RSVP via our club website contact form.
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