Super Pet (Commodore) How The SuperPet Came to be

[ChuckT]

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How the SuperPET came to be

http://seefigure1.com/2013/12/07/superpet.html


Credit from:

https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/06/10/th ... computing/

[BigEd]

APL, Basic, Fortran, Pascal, assembler, Cobol...
Good old University of Waterloo, and special thanks to Motorola for the 6809.
More at http://zimmers.net/cbmpics/csp9000.html

[BitWise]

BigEd wrote:

APL, Basic, Fortran, Pascal, assembler, Cobol...
Good old University of Waterloo, and special thanks to Motorola for the 6809.
More at http://zimmers.net/cbmpics/csp9000.html

It was my favourite machine in my college's computer room. All the rest of our PETs where the standard 6502 versions.

[BigEd]

Nearby, Radical Brad picked up a handful of PETs, including a Super.

Some notes on the SuperPET:

Mike himself has one, and posted about it:

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Recently, I received a Commodore SuperPET computer. This is a remarkable machine that was a collaboration between Commodore and the Computer Systems Group at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. The SuperPET is a standard Commodore PET 8032 computer with an internal expansion that adds a powerful Motorola 6809 microprocessor, an additional 64K of expansion RAM, a fast 6551-based RS232 serial port, and custom Waterloo software in ROM.

The SuperPET can operate in MOS 6502 mode, where it is a Commodore PET 8032 with the extra 64K expansion and 6551 ACIA. Curiously, this 64K expansion memory is not compatible with the 8096. A switch on the side puts the SuperPET into 6809 mode, where it can run a number of disk-based Waterloo programming languages including BASIC, Pascal, APL, Fortan, and COBOL. When in 6809 mode, a menu in ROM prompts the user to select a language which is then loaded from disk.

André has also some pages on the SuperPET and notes that in Europe it was called the Mainframe 9000 or the MMF9000. Loads of links within.