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The Commodore PET 2001-8. The 8 indicates an 8K model. The lowest memory specification was 4K. By itself, this system is simply known as the Commodore PET or Commodore PET 2001.
PET, as is popularly and incorrectly believed, does not stand for anything, not even Personal Electronic Transactor. It was actually named after the pet rock craze of the 1970s.
The Commodore PET was released in 1977, the same year as the Apple II and TRS-80 (Model I). All three were the first true complete commercial personal computers that started the revolution, but only the PET had the built-in monitor and cassette drive.
The PET's keyboard was unusual in that it was designed more like a calculator's keypad than a typewriter's keypad. This was due both to then Commodore President Jack Tramiel's desire to use existing materials in his supply chain, as well as acquiescing to his idea that since a home computer is a new technology, it shouldn't have to adhere to old paradigms. While interesting, the PET's keyboard was obviously not a hit with users and was soon replaced by a more traditional full stroke typewriter style keyboard, but at the expense of the built-in tape drive.
The Commodore PET features a version of Microsoft BASIC, which was licensed for a one time fee and used in all future Commodore products based around the same 6502 processor (Vic-20, C-64, etc.). Bill Gates and Microsoft would not make that same mistake again.
You can read more about the Commodore PET and many other systems in my upcoming book, or keep visiting Armchair Arcade. See you next time!
A veteran Giff, his age and experience haven't tempered his love of over-the-top firearms in any way.
A Opel Commodore GS in Nordhorn.
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A statue of John Barry, known as "The Father of the American Navy," stands outside Independence Hall. The statue was sculpted by Samuel Murray.
ABOUT THE SERIES
In June 2010 Michelle and I traveled to Philadelphia (and surrounding areas) for a summer vacation and to visit her extended family. I'd been to Philadelphia twice before, once in eighth grade and once during college but I only remember bits and pieces of each previous trip. The trip during college was during the 2010 Republican National Convention (I wasn't there for the convention) and I remember the entire city resembling a police state with police everywhere due to all the protests.
Anyway, it was great to return to the city and see some of the surrounding areas I hadn't explored before. We visited during a heatwave (90 degree heat with intense humidity which apparently is a little unusual in June but typical in August) but it was well worth the trip.
Holden's VK Commodore launched in 1984. This monor update on the six year old V-Car body saw the introduction of '6-window' styling - a fixed window which ford part of the C-Pillar. The VK also received large, dark-silver-grey polymer bumpers front and rear, along with clear turn signals at the front, and darkened taillamp lenses at the rear.
Mechanically, the car was largely carryover from engine used for many years under various Holden model bonnets. This was to be the last model though, using the old Holden 'black engine' straight-six powerplants. In the base SL, this used carburetored fuel metering, and produced 86 kW (115 hp).
Said engine in this VK SL, owned by Ben, had, somehow, cracked a piston, and I was asked whether or not I thought I could bring the engine back to functioning condition. Always interested in a challenge, I said 'yes'.
Now, these things are never straightforward, particularly when you are an engineering student rather than a mechanic (who has tools), so I ran into numerous troubles. These included a head that was stuck down on the block. (actually it wasn't, but a Holden iron-headed inline six is remarkably heavy). Also, removing the sump ended up being a car-jack based exercise. And also, the drawing out of the cracked piston.
Chief question was could the bore be tidied up enough to hold decent compression, so I spent quite a lot of time, sitting in the engine bay with a honing tool attached to an electric drill, cleaning it up.
Proof was in the pudding, putting it all back together again.
Another lesson, learned. You should probably label and tag everything you disconnect so that you can put it back together again properly. But it did work, so that's something.
A couple of month's later a group of us went out to the cinema, returning to an empty parking spot, and no VK. I am not sure what film we had all just watched, but for some reason we all burst out laughing.
The VK was recovered, but Ben's tools in the luggage compartment had all been stolen, and were not recovered.
Artifact no.: 1996.0114
Manufacturer: Commodore Business Machines Ltd., Agincourt, Ontario, Canada
1983
This PC was manufactured in Canada by Commodore Business Machines Ltd. of Agincourt, Ontario.
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Commodore 64
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I picked up this Amiga 500 for about $4 USD. It starts but it get stuck in the first boot screen (the one with the floppy disk logo) any ideas of what to do?
Could this be a Holden Commodore SS spotted in the states? It had the Holden emblems on the front grill and on the rims. I didn't see any Chevy emblems which would make this a Chevy SS.
August 1, 2021
Prescott, AZ
The trawler Commodore in drydock in Ballard at the Pacific Fishermen shipyard. The patches on the hull and designs and colours on the fence attracted me, as well as the way she dominates everything around her. Couldn't quite get the intensity of those patches with watercolour, maybe better done with opaque medium, gouache or oils—or oil pastel.
The Commodore Mine complex of four mine buildings above Creede was served by the railroad. In April 1891, the Commodore claim was staked by John C. Mackenzie. The mine consists of 5 levels with almost 200 miles of tunnels and underground workings lying within the mine. The photo shows portals and support buildings to the left of the ore house and chutes. The Commodore is the southern most mine lying on the Amethyst Vein and was last mined in 1976, a span of nearly 85 years of production.
In 1984, I convinced my parents that they should spend far more money than they were comfortable with, and get me a Commodore 64. The trick worked, and I've been an addict ever since.
My mom snapped this Polaroid to commemorate the occasion.
Commodore SX-64 displaying the Reddit r/retrobattlestations BASIC Week 2: Halloween Boogaloo code that I ported. Halloween is my favorite, if you couldn't tell. The yellow cart on top is a Chameleon cart which is a multipurpose utility cartridge that enhances the C64 greatly including giving you VGA output and an SD card slot.
Get the code and more at my blog:
Condor Ferries Ro/Ro ferry Commodore Goodwill passing the Spitbank Fort in the Solent as it heads into Porstmouth at the end of it's journey from Guernsey.
One of my hobbies is collecting retro-computers, focusing on computers made by Atari. I have currently have eleven different Atari-models, three from Commodore and one other model in my collection.
The first computer I ever had was a Commodore VIC 20 that me and my brother got for Christmas in 1982. We got it with some books and some magazines, but no games and no cassette drive at first. So all we could do was type in the game examples from the books, try the game, and loose it all when we turned it off. On top of that it broke after about three days (some hardware error, not our fault), so we had to send it in for repairs. Probably took a month or so before we got it back.
Since we got no software with it, just the book with games and the magazines me and my brother took turn to type in the games that were listed. That way I learned both to type and the basics of BASIC. Didn't take very long before I made my own games for it. One was even so big that it filled up the entire 3K of available RAM....
Camera used: Beirette vsn
Film used: Kentmere Pan 100
Location: My bedroom!
For a very short period, this was the best selling CD-based video game console....
Old cinema opened 1930, closed 1968. Since then it's been a bingo hall, car showrooms and undertakers, it's now a storage facility.
Other than Rod K., my heroes of cool have got to be these guys. I can never look this awesome, even if I was standing behind a glowing cross and walls of Marshall amps.
Note: Some of you may know my misery regarding when Justice first came to Vancouver. I brought my wide angle lens and was denied by security because I had a "professional camera" (oh please). So tonight I brought my stalker lens and had a rematch with Justice hitting up the Commodore Ballroom. Sweet.
A very late PET from 1982, the year Commodore discontinued the PET line.
It's a 4032, with 32kilobytes of RAM, and a 9" monitor.
Visible to the right is a CBM 2040 disk drive, each disk could hold up to 170k!
How far we've come. I'm looking for the IE-488 cable needed to connect the drives to the computer, anybody got one hanging around?
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland. In 1990, the Queensland Police Force was officially renamed the Queensland Police Service and the old motto of "Firmness with Courtesy" was changed to "With Honour We Serve". The headquarters of the Queensland Police Service is located at 200 Roma Street, Brisbane.