Pictures of my Commodore 16s

I bought these two Commodore 16s on eBay from a seller in Denmark during September 2003. I believe I tested them briefly when I got them, before putting them away in storage, but when I took them back out in September 2025, I only found one of them to be working.

Commodore 16 number 12319

I was not able to get this device to power on when I tested it. When I opened it up, I found some evidence of tampering, the fuse is replaced with some foil. I got some help of a colleague to debug, and it was just the power switch that was broken, so we replaced that.

Exterior shot:

Interior shot (follow link for larger version):

New power switch (not the original appearance):

Serial number label:

I had a Fixteen memory expansion built and have upgraded the internal memory to 64 kilobytes. Does that make the machine a Commodore 64, or perhaps a Minus 4?

Motherboard with memory expansion installed:

Commodore 16 number 47699

This device powers on fine, but when I connect a Datasette to it, it goes all weird. I installed a Fixteen also in this one, but it is not working as it is supposed to. It seems that the memory chips are broken, because when I disable the jumper, it starts as expected (but with the original memory size).

Exterior shot:

Interior shot (follow link for larger version):

Serial number label:

All photos above are © copyright 2025-2026 Peter Krefting, and may not be used without my written permission.

Older pictures

These pictures are from the auctions:

Complete C16 system:

Commodore 16 in box:

$Date: 2026-01-02 14:30:02 $ | peter@softwolves.pp.se

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