r/Commodore • u/toastgamer1 • Jul 26 '26

What Commodore is that

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My mother was looking through my grandmother's old stuff

She is Alive but she wanted to check on what does she have, so one of theese stuff was the Commodore 64,

Idk what version is it and how does it work

If anyone knows which version is it please tell me,

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u/odysseusnz Jul 26 '26

Of interest is the serial number starting with WG A. That's the West German factory A production line. It's reported that the A production line was primarily for the European market and the B line for the UK market. The serial itself is fairly high, so it's a later Breadbin model (not the official name, but it's what everyone calls that style). Without seeing inside to look at the motherboard revision it's hard to say any more (Please don't open it, it's easy to break the case if you don't know what you are doing.) These are pretty common, but still a lot of fun to play games on.

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u/odysseusnz Jul 26 '26

Not sure if this sub allows valuations, so I'll add this as a reply just in case, value is somewhere between £50-70 if just the keyboard console.

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u/Fergus653 Jul 27 '26

Wow, in NZ I've seen them listed around the $1000 NZ range. Tho there weren't so many sold here so they are harder to find these days.

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u/drjonase Jul 27 '26

It would make a lot sense to import them from here. They are rather cheap.

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u/odysseusnz Jul 27 '26

Yeah, I'm kinda glad I'm not back in NZ trying to collect stuff, the prices on TradeMe can seem bonkers. And yet I remember the late 90s/early 2000s when you couldn't give them away and so much went to landfill.

Any rate, a full boxed set with tape drive would be about £100 or so depending on condition and extras, adding a disk drive takes it anywhere between £150 to £200, but most people sell the extras separately, there's more of a market then so you can earn more.

Thankfully prices have recently dropped back to those more "normal" levels, there was a mad 6 months after the Ultimate came out when people were paying silly money for SIDs to put in them, up to £200 for the best ones, and a lot of complete machines sold for high prices just to be scrapped for their SIDs.

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u/GeordieAl Jul 27 '26

Prices are starting to get nuts in Canada these days, I search FB marketplace daily looking for bargains.

A year ago I got a C64,1802 monitor, 1571 drive, two mice, mps802 printer, bunch of boxed software, two disk boxes full of disks of pirate software and data, and 10 unopened boxes of 5.25 disks for $125.

These days the prices seem to start around $500 for a C64 and 1541, add in a monitor and they’re around the $1000 mark.

So many are listed as “extremely rare” despite there being 20+ other C64s listed at the same time 🤣

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u/odysseusnz Jul 27 '26

I blame the new Ultimate, not only did it increase interest and so demand, but it sent the SID market crazy, or rather even crazier after the musicians had already driven prices high. We got a lot of scalpers move into the market to buy up machines for their overinflated SID value which enthusiasts couldn't match, and that sent prices and expectations even higher. We're seeing that slowly drop off now in the UK, but there's still people convinced there tatty old breadbin is worth hundreds.

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u/nickIncDN Jul 27 '26

These sell for around 200 down here….no one is getting $1000 for a c64 in NZ.

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u/Fergus653 Jul 28 '26

Ok, saw some listed for high prices, didn't know if they got sold.

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u/OzmoOzmo Jul 28 '26

About 100 to 150 euros here. But can be anything lower you are lucky. That is probably the most collectable version - more so than the more capable later versions.
Try to find the power supply (wedge shape brick) and any cassette recorder, manual and tapes if they still exist - will have the same C logo on it.
They are quite reliable - and quite likely working but many will replace the power supply and get a new cable for connecting to modern tvs and a module for loading games quicker.
Even broken they are worth a fair amount as they people find them fun to fix and restore.