I planted some BASIC seeds

[twinrotor]

and had Commodores grow out of the floor!



Pretty good score for free.99.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

What I noticed about the C64, is that somewhere around the C64C coming out, the Shift Lock switched from the old chunky Mitsumi switches with a PCB instead of solder terminals, to a keyboard switch, which makes me wonder if it's possible to roughly date the introduction of Mitsumi standard mechanical.

[twinrotor]

It has a 1985 build date. I'll check it when I go in tomorrow