Commodore CBM PET 8032 1980s

[EpicMan83]

Squeal of death

[tyronebassfield]

Valuable information and excellent video! I would like to thank you for sharing your thoughts and time into the stuff you post!! Thumbs up

[wgoodf]

i have a busted 4040 drive, keep waiting for the chance to get a working drive, but they tend not to show up ebay wise. shame

[cobrachoppergirl]

I have an 8032 out in the shed and I keep thinking of setting it up in the house just for the retro look, but its now so totally useless I can't see wasting the space for that. My oldest computer is a 1971 pristine TRS-80 model 1 + monitor

[Carlos2006ful]

can you tell me where do you buy this system and all the system you have please

[fuckingharpsichord]

i use this one to sequence a roland system 100 !

[farerse]

play a gametape in a hifi stereo .. the music is amazing

[answerstolucky]

Shall-we-play-a-game?

[16mmDJ]

Sure! Lets play Global Thermonuclear War.

[1985Vans]

How about a nice game of chess?

[lm3909n]

Wonderful machine! I remember the brochure for an activity holiday that also did computing back in the early 80's; they showed kids using PETs. On the actual holiday (Camp Beaumont, Cromer) I didn't see any of these beauties :-( ... we used beebs instead! Would love to see more of those programs loaded that you have there... Any chance? Many thanks for posting.

[SteveBenway]

It's great to see one of these things running.

I have one in my collection, and it works, but have no software to run on it, so I had no idea what stuff looks like on it.

Thanks for showing us this :D

[strike1977]

was this guy speaking english??

[wgoodf]

YES!! - English with a Scots accent. HOORAY for tolerance!

[hehmtube]

Luxury !! Mine has the old user-unfriendly keyboard. At least your keyboard looks like one. Also, my cassette drive was built in. Plus, I had an expansion to bump up the internal memory from 8K to a whopping 40k. It has a manufacture date of 1978. Still works...maybe I'll get something for it in a few years.

[mcnekit]

dude, learn to speak.

[avsiii]

Hey... That's a nice Commodore CBM 8032 - How much do you want for it?

[zxxScarfacexxz]

how much is it?

[wgoodf]

its all about the postage or delivery with these machines.

total cost for me was around 70-80 all in.

[sonick808]

what a beautiful machine! PET is the only CBM i still need to add to the collection......

[bkathome]

i got the CBM PET 2001

[Borin81]

CBM PET!

i got 3 of those, 8032-SK, 8032-D and the CBM PET 2001, with the original box even! :)

[riminininin]

i have the same machine

[wisteela]

Lovely old machine. I had an 8096 which seemed to have originally been an 8032.

[khisanth75]

does the c64 datasette connect straight to the PET or is there an adaptor needeD?

[wgoodf]

they all use the same deck - vic20, c64 and pet

[tannalv]

Open sockets probably do RAM.

[DavetheTyTNIIGuy]

Hey, that was Dromeda! I remember getting that with my CURSOR! magazine subscription. I remember when I got my PET around '79 or '80, it was the best thing ever. Sadly, I didn't have those "wonderful" speakers. Commodores are awesome.

[songsforeveryone]

I want 80's 8-Bit machines...

[videorookie]

Wow, this is basically the first computer I started out on back then. I was sooo impressed when we hooked up a 300 baud accoustic coupler modem to it and I got to see someone on the other end type in real time. Man, those were the days. Thanks for sharing.

[thomasford]

I have a few old computers for novelty sake, but trying to look at them as actual tools that someone back in the day would use, they seem kinda useless. You either had to go out and buy these simple little programs that didn't do too much or take all day programming one yourself, and even after you've either bought or written a program, it takes a long time to get to the program on the tape and load it, it just seems like anything could be done quicker with other tools available at the time.

[matkovicha]

Copy those tapes on a cassette player to archive their data.

[ScrewAttackChina]

the sound of that keyboard is very unique.. i'll always remember that sound... also will never forget the sound of the BELL. ?CHR$(7)

[videorookie]

Haha...I remember that one. Classic. ;)

[AFNYOAQIS]

can it do graphics or is it text only?

[wgoodf]

it has a graphics set - hearts, spades, clubs, diamond shapes and others. so no graphics as we thing of it now-a-days, but it did have a set of graphic characters that could be used.

[AFNYOAQIS]

Kind of like the VIC-20?

[blueblob4]

That was amazing! Was that yours all the way through or did you buy it used? It was incredible!

[shatminer]

absolutely beautiful

[MTSociety]

its in great shape

[stupidsoft111]

I wish I had one of those

[berseliusberselius]

I´ve had one. Now its gone. Such a nice thing. Got it from a friend who had it outside in a little house for dogs. Nice computer. I programmed it and saved my programs on a tape-recorder for the c-64. I miss it.

[dailylifetube]

I've got one of those. I love the Starwars design of it.

[atari26003]

These PCs are a great collectible to have :)

Thanks for the upload i love these things.

I own a Superpet