This 8-Bit Commodore PET Was Hard To Fix

Over on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit assembly code. The Trinity of 1977 which started the personal computer r…

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I have summarized my work on the PET video output architecture for all three main types of PET on this page now:
http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/video.html

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PET video architecture

PET video output architecture

Perilous Swamp su Commodore PET: il classico ZX81 di Psion Software rivive in BASIC
https://www.bitchronicles.net/2025/12/perilous-swamp-su-commodore-pet-il.html

@giochi

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New video: Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Repair
We have another Commodore IEEE-488 dual disk drive. It is the predecessor of the 8050 and it is almost compatible with the 1541, the C64's disk drive. This specimen doesn't work, its drives look quite mangled. So let's fix it! But it is never that easy...

https://youtu.be/oQBwEAJBwCY

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Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Repair

https://makertube.net/w/6gZN39ynqqmcESiA5ru6Ku

Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Repair

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Working on the CBM 4040... The first replacement drive has been cleaned, and the bearings have been lubricated as far as I can reach them.
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Four Commodore 8-bit machines running 10 PRINT.

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@root42 made me such a wonderful advent calender #adventcalendar #christmas2025 #commodorepet