Greets 6502 Freaks, it's been a while!
I have been picking away on my Vulcan-74 project here and there, but the farm and my 2 day jobs has taken all of my time this summer so far. Winter is always the best time to hide in my lab and have fun, and I am looking forward to posting the progress on my project then.
So, I am out in the Northern Ontario wilderness installing a computerized time lapse system on a 250 foot tower, and after the job I start up a chat with someone there. Well, wadda know, they actually knew of my Vulcan-74 project from postings here and we talked for some time. At the end of the conversation, I was asked...
"Hey, I have a bunch of old Commodore computers in a basement at my camp down the road, you want 'em"?
Well, I followed the usual protocol when asked such a thing, which is...
Say yes, shut up, then open the car doors to load up!
I was amazed to see there were 5 PETs in the collection I was loading, and some of them looked different than the one I already had. Four of them were in nice shape and actually turned on, displaying the usual basic prompt! Here they are...
![Image](http://www.lucidscience.com/temp/PET1.jpg)
The 4016 is in amazing shape, all keys working, no monitor burn at all, even the main board is clean.
The interesting one is the one labelled SuperPET SP-9000. Have not seen one of those before!
Even the keyboard is different, more like a C64 or VIC than a PET.
Inside the SuperPET is an addon board that has extra RAM and some various built in Apps.
There is even a switch on the side to change the BOOT ROM and run different Apps...
![Image](http://www.lucidscience.com/temp/PET2.jpg)
Notice the differences in the keyboard from the standard 4016 and the SuperPET...
![Image](http://www.lucidscience.com/temp/PET3.jpg)
The other PETS seem mote common, 4016, 4032, and a pair of 2001 series.
So I am curious as to how rare the SuperPET may be?
I found a few photos of it online, but ir appears to have been a limited production system.
When I have more time, I will do a full restore with tons of photos on my Blog...
https://www.atomiczombie.com/blogs/Cheers,
Radical Brad