Talk:Commodore PET
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CBM 8032 photo
After talking it over with the contributor the 8032 photo was moved here from the article, since it didn't add any visual info as such -- the featured PET 4032 photo is of a PET with an outwardly similarly sized screen, thus looking almost exactly the same. --Wernher 20:48, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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PET Trivia
Does this actually have any relevance to the PET, or is it vanity? I played with a PET at summer camp once, but I haven't appended it to an encyclopedia article. --Anonymous
- Yes, the Jeff Minter item is relevant, the guy being a very significant contributor to the world of computer games. And AFAIK the good Mr Minter hasn't done much editing in that section (or in any WKP article) -- most of the material was written by yours truly. :-) --Wernher 21:31, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
PET not a repackaged KIM
In what sense was a PET "essentially" a KIM-1, aside from both using the same processor chip? I own a KIM and I've seen the internals of a "chicklet" keyboard PET and the boards are nothing alike. --Wtshymanski 22:30, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- In the sense that PET was based on the KIM-1 architecture, but obviously a new motherboard was designed specifically for the PET. To say it was "essentially" a KIM-1 would not be a huge error. ADSR6581 23:37, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- The "architecture" of the KIM-1 is pretty minimal...if the PET was a 2-car carage, the KIM-1 was not even a garden shed. The KIM-1 was no more than a development board for the 6502 processor and MOS Technology's peripheral chips. You could say that *all* 8-bit computers of the early '80s had the same "architecture". Since the video section, alphanumeric keyboard and ROM BASIC of the PET made it so different than using the KIM, I think the comparison of the KIM to the PET is confusing; someone may think the KIM had ROM BASIC, etc. --Wtshymanski 03:24, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
SFD-1001 and 8250
The SFD-1001 was not the "first commercially-produced 5¼" drive with a 1 megabyte format". The SFD came out in 1986, as best I can find - after HD PC floppies already existed. The earlier CBM model with exactly the same format (and DOS version!) as the SFD-1001 was the Commodore 8250, which now has an article. I decided to remove the "first" comment altogether; it shouldn't be there unless it's citeable (as I believe that honor actually goes to the IBM 32x0 series). - Todd Vierling 02:54, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)