Commodore 116 (boxed) This is my rare, boxed and nice working Commodore 116. I would like to give it away to a fan and for the best offer. I need the money. So contact me. (Monitor & SD2IEC are not included). The adverts are fictional and made by myself.
Re: Commodore 116 (boxed) for sale I am sorry to hear you willing to sell this rubber key mini beast. Right now my place is really full with my latest US stuff, but if everything goes fine, in few months I go into to a bigger apartment. So if the C=116 will be still available, I plan to buy it. What about your 1551? the C=116 and the 1551 is a fantastic pair The Beauty and the Beast.
Re: Commodore 116 (boxed) for sale I have too. I would be happy, if it goes to a fan. I had great fun with it. Best offer so far: 160. I will decide Sunday, who gets it.
Edit: 2024-07-08 After heavily regretting selling my boxed C116 for 200EUR back then, i rebought one recently:
Re: Commodore 116 (boxed) Happy to hear you have again that "beast".
In fact, on this machine it is the most visible that Tramiel planned it to be a competitor of the ZX Spectrum 16K. In fact, it was the original concept. Later on, when Bil Herd and his team found out how flexible the platform is, they created 232, 264, and the Japanese team made the cheap C16 with a simplier, easier to produce new PCB.
The form, the size, the look, the PSU connector (voltage, polarity and connector too!), the rubber keys are all very similar.
It knew everything the ZX spectrum 16K offered: -same memory size -comparable, well equipped BASIC (or even better) -Similar speed as the Z80 3.5MHz (running machine code)
It offered a lot of things, ZX Spectrum did not have, or required extension cards : -Joystick ports -floppy disc port -Sound output to TV or audio device -Sharp picture output to TV or monitor -built-in monitor program for assembly programming
And what it does similarly, C116 did it at better: -much more colors -higher resolution -two times more (similarly simple) sound channels
What C116 did not do better: -ZX Spectrums were rather easy to upgrade to 48KB machine, while on C116 and C16 it wasnot so straight forward activity.
Commodore 116 (boxed)
The Beauty and the Beast. 
