UPDATE: this little pup has been claimed!
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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 adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
@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.
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@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.
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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 adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
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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 adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
@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…
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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 adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
@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.
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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 adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
@AdrianRiskin I am in Southern California, but I already have too much stuff. I hope somebody can adopt this pet!
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@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.
@AdrianRiskin @conniptions LOL this is dangerously close to me. Will cc @kd6nfd who is also local (and an enthusiast in restoring old computers).
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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 adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
@AdrianRiskin Congratulations on re-homing your PET!
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@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.
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@ai6yr @conniptions @kd6nfd thanks! I just found someone to take it.
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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 adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
@AdrianRiskin and it's ok with your new beautifuls fascists bills against privacy, voted by all your politicians ?
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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 adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
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!
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@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!
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Now it is 1984
Knock, knock at your front door
It's the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niecehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R-rDQs5NOP4&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD
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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 adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
@AdrianRiskin The first computer I ever used.
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@AdrianRiskin The first computer I ever used.
@WWeeta @AdrianRiskin Same! In my elementary school library, it was the first computer I wrote code on.
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@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.
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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 adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
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@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.
@AdrianRiskin @conniptions there are enough museums and exhibitions who would gesticulate loudly and take it right now. And they have good contacts to experts to restore it. Here I remember @harzretro with good skills 🖖