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    The Commodore PET is a line of personal computers produced starting in 1977 by Commodore International. A single all-in-one case combines a MOS Technology...
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  • in the industry. The company released its first home computer, the Commodore PET, in 1977; it was followed by the VIC-20, the first ever computer to...
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  • hardware sanity checking (notable examples being the IBM Portable and Commodore PET.) The Z1 (1938) and Z3 (1941) computers built by Konrad Zuse contained...
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    VIC-20 (redirect from Commodore VIC 20)
    sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PET. The VIC-20...
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    PETSCII (redirect from PET ASCII)
    used by the PET from 1977, and was subsequently used by the CBM-II, VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 16, Commodore 116, Plus/4, and Commodore 128. However...
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    for US$595 (equivalent to $1,940 in 2024). Preceded by the VIC-20 and Commodore PET, the C64 took its name from its 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM....
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    steel case form to the Commodore 9060/9090 hard disk drives, and use the parallel IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers. Essentially...
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    Machines (CBM), released in 1982 and intended as a follow-on to the Commodore PET series. The CBM-II has two incarnations, the P series (P = personal...
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  • This is a list of Commodore PET games. See Lists of video games for other platforms. Mike Richardson (1992). PET, Super PET and B-128 Library Listings...
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    primarily for its 8-bit CBM and PET series of computers. The drives offered improved storage capacities over previous Commodore drive models. They are notable...
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  • Commodore BASIC, also known as PET BASIC or CBM-BASIC, is the dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Commodore International's 8-bit home computer...
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    to Commodore's 8-bit computers, including the PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64. A physically similar model, Commodore 1531, was made for the Commodore 16...
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    team helping to launch the Commodore PET computer joked that with the Pet Rock phenomenon, Commodore were going to make a pet computer. The name stuck....
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  • rendered as MicroMainframe or Micro-mainframe) may refer to: The Commodore PET SuperPET 9000 series microcomputer The Intel iAPX 432 multiple-chip microprocessor...
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    to Commodore PET/CBM computers. These drive models use a single-density, single-side floppy data storage format similar to that used by the Commodore 1540...
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    such as the Commodore PET, the Osborne 1, the TRS-80 Model II, and the Datapoint 2200. Many manufacturers of home computers like Commodore and Atari included...
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    What's New (February 1978), "Commodore Ships First PET Computers", BYTE, 3 (2): 190 Commodore press release. "The PET computer made its debut recently...
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    September 1981. "MOS / CSG Commodore KIM-1 History & Pictures – Commodore Computers: C64 VIC20 PET C128 Plus4 – 8 Bit PC's". www.commodore.ca. Retrieved 1 October...
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    PET 64 and Model 4064, was a microcomputer made by Commodore Business Machines in 1983. It was sold to schools as a replacement for aging Commodore PET...
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    serial port (Commodore's proprietary "serial CBM-488 bus", was a variation of the Commodore PET IEEE interface as used on the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, which...
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    of $0401 (1025), which is equivalent to the start of BASIC for the Commodore PET, but corresponds to the default screen memory in the C64 (starting with...
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    on that system. There is also some compatibility with the VIC-20 and Commodore PET. In the United States, the 1541 floppy disk drive was widespread. By...
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    some success as a peripheral bus for early microcomputers, notably the Commodore PET. Newer standards have largely replaced IEEE 488 for computer use, but...
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    and BBS64 bulletin board system (BBS) software. The "PET" in the name comes from the Commodore PET computer. Compared to other contemporary protocols,...
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    package. With Ken Wasserman he wrote the 1980 game Flash Attack for the Commodore PET, then he created the color vector arcade video game Aztarac (1983) for...
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    Jack Tramiel (category Commodore people)
    Holocaust survivor, best known for founding Commodore International. The Commodore PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64 are some home computers produced while...
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    and Pearl Wellard to develop and publish software primarily for the Commodore PET. The earliest Supersoft catalogue known to have survived dates from...
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    businessmen or computer hobbyists. Byte magazine referred to the Apple II, Commodore PET 2001, and TRS-80 as the "1977 Trinity". As the Apple II had the defining...
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  • aging PET/CBM families of personal computers that had found success in Europe as business machines. The project was initiated in 1983 by Commodore systems...
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    Chuck Peddle (category Commodore people)
    microprocessor, the KIM-1 single-board computer, and its successor, the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502. Peddle was born in Bangor...
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