Mastodawn

Nantucket Lit 2d ago

UPDATE: this little pup has been claimed! Thank you everyone for your interest and support!

Can you make good use of an original Commodore PET computer? This one is yours for free if you can pick it up in Los Angeles (near USC). My parents bought it in 1978. It has the famous chiclet keyboard and integral cassette tape drive. It doesn't work at this point, which someone told me is probably due to some bad RAM chips but I don't actually know. The screen shows random squares when it's on.

Boosts for reach appreciated.

ETA: email me at [email protected] or DM me here.

#RetroComputing #Commodore #PET #LosAngeles

Lime Bar 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin wow

Grant Me Strength 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin almost worth the drive!!

MissConstrue 1d ago

@GrantMeStrength @AdrianRiskin I’m near Dallas, and that’s a true statement. I wish I had the space to restore it, but I fear it would just end up in my Museum of Technology, which other people call my closet.

Wayne Myers 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin Damn. I hope it finds a good home where it gets restored, used and loved again. Sadly I'm a) a continent away and b) not hardwarey enough to repair it.

@conniptions yeah, me too. I'll be sad to see it go, but I'd rather have it go to someone who can fix it, use it, and enjoy it than keep it sitting in the closet.

I still remember the day they brought it home. I had learned BASIC on an Altair 8800 that my high school computer club had built in 1976, the year before I got there, but being able to do it at home changed everything.

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin @conniptions LOL this is dangerously close to me. Will cc @kd6nfd who is also local (and an enthusiast in restoring old computers).

@ai6yr @conniptions @kd6nfd thanks! I just found someone to take it.

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin @conniptions @kd6nfd Yay!

Craig KD6NFD 2d ago

@ai6yr @AdrianRiskin @conniptions sorry I missed it. Thanks for thinking of me. Glad to see it going to good home!

Ԏєηυкι, 手抜き🚀🐧♏ 🔭 ⚫⚪2d ago

@AdrianRiskin @conniptions there are enough museums and exhibitions who would tearing themselves apart, gesticulate loudly and fetch it, proudly to their museum. And they have good contacts to experts to restore it. Here I remember @harzretro with good skills 🖖

Harzretro 2d ago

@enigma @AdrianRiskin @conniptions
A free #commodorepet ...don't through it away!
My repairing skills aren't good, i'm good in "getting and presenting" stuff.
In germany we have a vintage computer club #vzekc - and there is something like it in the us.
There are #vcf (vintage computer festivals), too.

And: there are hundreds of ppl who would love to take this gem of #commodore pet ( i would it, too, but it is little bit far away ;)

Sorry for my bad english.

#retrocomputing
#retrocomputers

@harzretro @enigma @conniptions

Thanks! I think I found it a good home. Also your English is excellent.

brainwise 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin Whoa!

@AdrianRiskin if only I wasn’t on the other coast…. The blue label one was the first one I used growing up and brings back some good memories…

Tired Sponge 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin If I had any way of getting to LA I would absolutely take that since the PET was the first computer I ever used.

Mark J. Blair 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin I am in Southern California, but I already have too much stuff. I hope somebody can adopt this pet!

Nantucket Lit 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin Congratulations on re-homing your PET!

@AdrianRiskin and it's ok with your new beautifuls fascists bills against privacy, voted by all your politicians ?

I expect to be rounded up and disappeared at any moment. California uber alles!

_________

Now it is 1984
Knock, knock at your front door
It's the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R-rDQs5NOP4&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD

California Über Alles

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✶Rayotron✶2d ago

What a glorious thing! I started out with the VIC 20 which still had the same 6502 CPU as the PET.

It's so great you're giving it away instead of selling it!

Wanderin' Weeta 🍁2d ago

@AdrianRiskin The first computer I ever used.

Brad Wilson 2d ago

@WWeeta @AdrianRiskin Same! In my elementary school library, it was the first computer I wrote code on.

@bradwilson @WWeeta it was my third. My high school computer club built an Altair 8800 which had BASIC and before that I was lucky enough to have access to a PDP-11 at UCLA via teletype and an acoustic modem.

Jeff Atwood 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin 🤩

MissConstrue 1d ago

@codinghorror @AdrianRiskin Whoa, now that’s old school swag right there!

Fubaroque 2d ago

@AdrianRiskin I learned to program on this exact model… standing at the counter in an elektronics shop, with two others on our school lunch breaks, daily.

Don’t think I have the cassettes anymore. 🤣

Julie Sqveakaroo 1d ago

Aww, man!

This was the compy I first got to use at summer Computer Camp in the very early 80s!

PerryM ✅1d ago

@AdrianRiskin Your generosity is noted. There the same exact model listed on Ebay for $1575. It is listed as working however.

@PerryM I was purposely not looking that up! I don't need the money and I'd really like to see it go to someone who will love it but if course money is money. I recently read that it cost $800 new in 1978, which is apparently about $4K today.

PerryM ✅1d ago

@AdrianRiskin Unfortunately Adrian, you will be lucky to find someone who is really interested in getting it working again and not someone who is looking to re-market it for a profit, possibly on Ebay.

I gave away an old ham radio receiver to someone who claimed to wanting to pass it to his paperboy, who was becoming interested in ham radio. I saw it on Ebay days later for $250.

@PerryM ack, well I guess we'll see what happens..