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Boray
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Post by Boray »

carlsson wrote: The Amiga is opened due to I was working with the hard disk (see other thread), not because I regularly make hardware modifications.
I don't make regular modifications either, but there are 4 IDE cables going out and some other cables so it's just hard to fit it together ;) And even if you don't do regular modifications, it's quite handy to have it open allready when you do! ;)

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Boray
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Post by Boray »

Whops, there are only two IDE cables, I was thinking of 4 units...
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carlsson
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Post by carlsson »

Did you consider mounting it in a PC style tower? A friend of mine did that with his Amiga 1200 several years ago. He had to order some special keyboard adapter and use a PC keyboard, but maybe technology has advanced so you can modify or use the original Amiga keyboard (25 pin DSUB a'la Amiga 2000?)
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Tepic
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Post by Tepic »

Hmm what a lovely PET!

A nice working example of a PET 2001 is my dream.
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Ratamnim
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Post by Ratamnim »

Arrrrrr the PET first pc that i ever try'd programming in machine code,
My School had got hold of a couple of um because they wanted to be the first in the county(Wiltshire UK) to have Computer Studies as an exam....
It would have been better but we kept on having supply teachers who knew nothing about Computer's at all (most didn't know how to turn them on) and the Class ended up teaching the Teacher's how to use um...
It was so funny to see....

As for my setup I'll admit I've not had the Vic20 out for year's until later today that is... reading some of the post's on forum has kick started me to get it out again and set it up.....
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Ratamnim
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Post by Ratamnim »

Arrrrrr the PET first pc that i ever try'd programming in machine code,
My School had got hold of a couple of um because they wanted to be the first in the county(Wiltshire UK) to have Computer Studies as an exam....
It would have been better but we kept on having supply teachers who knew nothing about Computer's at all (most didn't know how to turn them on) and the Class ended up teaching the Teacher's how to use um...
It was so funny to see....

As for my setup I'll admit I've not had the Vic20 out for year's until later today that is... reading some of the post's on forum has kick started me to get it out again and set it up.....
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Centallica
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Post by Centallica »

Tepic wrote:Hmm what a lovely PET!

A nice working example of a PET 2001 is my dream.
The 2001 is nice for the nostalgia of being the 1st pet and with the chicklet keyboard and tape deck in it but the 4032 with 32K of memory, 12" screen, 4.0 BASIC ROMS, faster graphic displays, sound!, more user friendly keyboard, the affordability/ease of finding a second computer for spare parts like I did for $20 Canadian locally and the disk drive command capabilities far outweighs the 2001 in my opinion.

Not to say if one came in my hands and not paying $100-$200+ for like they do on Ebay, I would gladly welcome it into my home for the nostalgia/collecting reasons :lol:

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billlagr
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Post by billlagr »

Many many years ago I had a PET 8032SK and an 8080 (I think) disk drive - the drive was in a dirty great steel case and was extremely heavy...it had two dive mechanisms and from memory was a double sided drive as well?
The BASIC on the 8032 was pretty good too...such a shame that the BASIC went backwards when it went into the C64 and VIC
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Centallica
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Post by Centallica »

billlagr wrote:Many many years ago I had a PET 8032SK and an 8080 (I think) disk drive - the drive was in a dirty great steel case and was extremely heavy...it had two dive mechanisms and from memory was a double sided drive as well?
The BASIC on the 8032 was pretty good too...such a shame that the BASIC went backwards when it went into the C64 and VIC
My 2040 drive has the upgraded ROMS for it (wanted a 4040 drive but couldn't find one at the same time I bought the PET) and is sure a heavy tank!

The 8050 drive reads the disks from both sides and I'm sure had more advanced ROMS inside it also!

8000 series computers were meant for business applications not game programming thus the elimination of 2 graphic characters on every key of the earlier 4000 series and i believe 2000 series if they weren't the business model as well.

I started out with the PET and grew to the Vic-20 and ended my Commodore experience there (never went to the 64) as I then found by 85/86 women and partying :D

Now that I'm married, I can regress back to the PET and Vic-20 as women and partying are off limits :evil: (not in my thoughts though) :wink:

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Alan
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Post by Alan »

My setup...

http://www.eskimo.com/~areed
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Centallica
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Post by Centallica »

Alan wrote:My setup...

http://www.eskimo.com/~areed
Nice set up Allan and website too!

I see you're a Sci-fi fan too...goes along well with the geek and computers well doesn't it :wink:

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ruud
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Post by ruud »

Tepic wrote:Hmm what a lovely PET!

A nice working example of a PET 2001 is my dream.
I cannot say I'm proud of it but here is a serie of photo's of my room:

http://www.baltissen.org/images/kamer1.jpg
http://www.baltissen.org/images/kamer2.jpg
http://www.baltissen.org/images/kamer3.jpg
http://www.baltissen.org/images/kamer4.jpg
http://www.baltissen.org/images/kamer5.jpg
http://www.baltissen.org/images/kamer6.jpg
http://www.baltissen.org/images/kamer7.jpg

The last one is of a working PET 2001, first model.

I used to have a bigger room but my wife wanted a beauty salon of her own: www.Aleksandra.nl "Foto's" links to some pictures of the much bigger room I used to own...... But giving it up for her also has some advantages: the times I come home with a car full of computer stuff, she doesn't complain :)

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Post by vic user »

what a crazy room ruud!

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6502dude
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Post by 6502dude »

Cool photos ruud

I enjoy collecting and tinkering with stuff as well and often have many computers in various stages of disassembly.
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carlsson
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Post by carlsson »

Ruud, maybe you can program one of the PETs to run her beautician equipment.. or at least make a program to envision how the customer will look like with a certain hair style etc.

Ehh.. I forgot that those 80'ties computers not always excel in producing high resolution, life-like colour images from externally inputted source. Perhaps an accouting program for her business is more within PET reach.
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