SWAP - My VIC-20 books for your C128 books

[airship]

I bought a lot of books on eBay for a pretty good price, but to get the C128 books I wanted I had to take a bundle of VIC-20 books, too. Since I don't have one and I'm not interested in the VIC-20, I thought I'd offer them for trade here before I list them back on eBay.

Here's what I've got for the VIC-20. These have all been read, but are in good shape. (The box for the boxed set is a little beat up, but the books inside are very, very nice.):

Boxed Set of Four:
  *  1.  VIC Revealed
  *  2.  VIC Games
  *  3.  VIC Graphics
  *  4.  Stimulating Simulations for the VIC
5.   VIC-20 Programmer's Reference Guide (yellowed comb binding & 'well-thumbed', otherwise very good)
6.   VIC-20 User's Guide: "Personal Computing on the VIC-20" (1981 copyright, wire bound)
7.   COMPUTE'S First Book of VIC (wire bound)
8.   VIC 2 - COMPUTE'S Second Book of VIC (wire bound)
9.   Sams VIC 20 Programmer's Notebook (comb bound)

It's easier to list the C128 books I already have rather than the ones I want. If you have any C128 books OTHER THAN the following, offer me a trade for any or all of my VIC books. I'm mostly interested in programming, but I'll consider users' guides, too.

1.   C128 Programmer's Reference Guide
2.   The Black Book of C128
3.   Mapping the C128
4.   COMPUTE's 128 Programmer's Guide
5.   Abacus' 128 Internals
6.   Abacus' 1571 Internals
7.   Mastering Disk Operations on the Commodore 128
8.   COMPUTE's First Book of Commodore 128
9.   The Big Tip Book for the C64/C64C/C128
10.  The Commodore 128 Mode: an Inside View
11.  COMPUTE's Music System for the Commodore 64 and 128
12.  C128 Digital Research CP/M Plus Guide

[airship]

No VIC-20 fans here? Am I going to have to list these on eBay? :gråta:

I'd also consider trades for Datasettes; 1520 plotters; 1581s; 3rd party drives; VIC-20s, C16s, or C64s; (any of the preceding can be working or not); C64 power supplies; CIAs and other zap-prone chips; EPROMs, programmed or not; strange expansion or adapter boards for the various C128/64 ports (or insides); old modems and cartridges to cannibalize for cases and connectors; bags of ICs;  or just about any other hackable stuff for the C128. Also manuals and/or software relating to programming the C128, or useful utilities for it.

In short, make me an offer.

But I already have enough 1541s.

[Andrew Wiskow]

Airship, you might want to try posting this on the Denial Forums, since there are many more VIC-20 fans there.  

-Andrew

[Golan Klinger]

I'd also consider trades for [...] VIC-20s

I'm confused because you wrote, "I'm not interested in the VIC-20" and if you are interested in a VIC-20 and you trade your books for one, won't you end up needing VIC-20 books?

But I already have enough 1541s.

I guess I'm screwed again.

[Andrew Wiskow]

If 1541's ever become as valuable as FD-4000's are today, we'll all be rich!  

-Andrew

[airship]

Golan, the VIC-20 is only of passing interest to me. If I had one, that would be cool, but I wouldn't be writing programs for it. In all likelihood, I'd strip it for parts. :förvånad:

[Blacklord]

Golan, the VIC-20 is only of passing interest to me. If I had one, that would be cool, but I wouldn't be writing programs for it. In all likelihood, I'd strip it for parts. :förvånad:

I've got a boxed, near-new VIC, but it really is a "toy" in comparison with the other C= 8 bit machines, I can't quite understand the interest in it.

Denial is a very popular site though, 23,000 posts in three and a half years.

Still can't understand why that machine is more popular than the 128 though.....

Lance

[Golan Klinger]

For many, the VIC-20 was their first computer and it has a certain, indescribable charm.

[airship]

I'm into 8-bit machines (well, the C128, anyway) because of the challenge of doing as much as possible with limited resources.

Carried to the extreme, that makes you a VIC-20 fanatic. Call them the 'Studebaker' guys. I'm more of a 'Buick' guy.