[HN Gopher] Commodore PET 2001 repair
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       Commodore PET 2001 repair
        
       Author : erickhill
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2022-12-19 17:10 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (biosrhythm.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (biosrhythm.com)
        
       | greenbit wrote:
       | I had a 4032 for a while, which had a nicer keyboard, but it had
       | green phosphors. I think green was standard with the 4016, 4032,
       | 8032s, but I liked that blueish phosphor on the 2001 better.
        
       | eggy wrote:
       | My first computer! I bought it used in 1977/78. I paid $800 for
       | the 32k upgraded one. I learned to program on this, but actually
       | learned PDP-11 assembly from a book before I purchased it. Of
       | course, not applicable to PET Basic! I loved the graphics on the
       | PET's keys. I wrote a horse racing program (parents were into the
       | ponies!). I stayed with Commodores - A Vic-20, Commodore 128, and
       | then the Amiga 1000. I kept it until 1988 and let my cousin John
       | use it. He sold it years later when I was overseas. I was bummed,
       | but more so now. I would have loved to have had it until now for
       | the nostalgia trip. Talk about constraints in programming. I get
       | some of that now with PICO-8 and other toys, but nothing beats
       | hitting PLAY to load a program!
        
       | Cockbrand wrote:
       | I got one of those for free in the late 80s when they were
       | decommissioned from my school. I wrote a few programs on it, and
       | sold it decades later. Very beautiful and interesting machine,
       | but definitely way too bulky for someone living in a small
       | apartment.
        
       | classichasclass wrote:
       | I've got a blue-label PET 2001 in the office. Except for some
       | iffy keys and the internal Datasette, and there's a loose solder
       | joint in the monitor that I've yet to find, it works well. The
       | keycaps are worn but not so worn you can't figure out what keys
       | are what. Picked up a Tapuino I'm trying to do some work with on
       | the secondary cassette port.
        
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