Tag Archives: PET

Surias – writing a program can be fun!

Posted on June 29, 2023 by blogmywiki

This is an unpublished article I wrote in around 1981 about a game my brother and I wrote for the Commodore PET. I am yet to find a program listing or cassette for the game, which I would love to … Continue reading →

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One moment please, while I arrange the galaxy

Posted on September 19, 2021 by blogmywiki

In 1977, the second computer I ever used was my dad’s Commodore PET 2001. This massive, sphinx-like machine of bent-steel with its terrible calculator keyboard, built-in cassette drive and ghostly white CRT monitor surrounded with a slightly IBM-ish shade of … Continue reading →

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