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- tHE cOMMODORE mODEL ii SERIES CAME OUT IN A FEW MAJOR MODELS:
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- - tHE c5X0 HAD A vic-ii VIDEO CHIP (AS THE c64) AND RAN ON 1 mhZ
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- - tHE c6X0 HAD A crtc VIDEO CHIP FOR 80 COLUMNS DISPLAY AND RAN ON 2 mhZ
- tHE CHARACTER SIZE IS 8X8. iT CAME IN A lOW-pROFILE CASE.
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- - tHE c7X0 IS BASICALLY THE SAME AS THE c6X0. oNLY THE crtc IS INITIALIZED
- FOR 14X8 PIXEL CHARACTER SIZE. tHE KERNAL (AS WELL AS THE BASIC!)
- IS THE SAME AS THE c6X0, ONLY TWO RESISTORS AT AN i/o PORT DETERMINE THE
- WAY TO INITIALIZE THE crtc. iT CAME IN A HIGH-PROFILE CASE WITH SEPARATE
- KEYBOARD SIMILAR TO THE LATE pet MODELS.
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- tHE X10 mODELS (c510, c610, c710) HAVE 128K ram, THE X20 mODELS (c520, c620
- AND c720) HAVE 256K ram. fOR EACH ram SIZE A DIFFERENT basic rom IS
- NECESSARY. tHE c610 AND c710 MODELS AS WELL AS THE c620 AND c720 MODELS
- USE THE SAME romS, HOWEVER.
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- tHERE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE c630 AND c730 MODELS WITH 256K ram AND A
- COPROCESSOR, ALTHOUGH THEIR FATE IS UNKNOWN.
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- iN nORTH aMERICA THE MODELS WERE KNOWN AS "p500" (c5X0), OR
- "b128" (c6X0) AND "b256" (c7X0), OR "bx256" (c630/730).
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- tHIS INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED BY aNDR{$e9} fACHAT (FACHAT@PHYSIK.TU-CHEMNITZ.DE).
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