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		rasz_pl on Jan 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A homebuilt MOS 6502 based microcomputer system There as going to be C64 laptop, but Commodore's CEO at the time, Marshall Smith, was a total retard (mba recruited from a company selling screws and pipes), and canned the project after TANDY people told him its a bad idea :)))) http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/lcd.html

vidarh on Jan 26, 2015 [–]

There was a C64 "luggable", though: The SX-64:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_SX-64

(I've only ever seen one of them; they were crazily impractical)

rasz_pl on Jan 26, 2015 | [–]

I learned about it only very recently thru youtube subscription to a fellow awesome nerd PatheticComputing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCO_3KXMde4

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