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...
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...
Notice the differences in the keyboard from the standard 4016 and the SuperPET...
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