Commodore PET 2001

[LIBshark]

WoW... 7MB ... just wow.

[SuperGachet]

@LIBshark 7KB of RAM

[NeoSancomics]

@LIBshark 7 Kilobytes. 1024 KB to the MB.

[robertozube]

Was that an nvidia graphics card I spotted?

[FerroChrom]

The monitor looks like an Egyptian Pharaoh's head.

[amthomas0412]

WAKA-WAKA-WAKA-WAKA:)

[dannydsi3d]

those commodore PET computers have to stop opening up.

[coondogtheman1234]

LOAD "Vice City"

Press play on tape

Searching...

Found Vice City.

Does that fat gray wire coming from the tape player have the audio from the tape? If you connected that to an amp and then put in a music tape could you use it like a normal cassette player?

[doritostheking]

@coondogtheman1234 Yes.

[coondogtheman1234]

@doritostheking

cool. I'd like to find a vid on here where someone did just that.

[doritostheking]

@coondogtheman1234 It's actually just a normal portable tape deck. Commodore bought a few thousand of them, took the speaker out, and sawed a corner off so it'd fit. You can actually see where you'd put the battery in.

[coondogtheman1234]

@doritostheking

That is awesome. Do you have any video of this? I would like to see it.

[doritostheking]

@coondogtheman1234 No video, sorry. But you can google up some pictures easily enough. Turns out it was a Sanyo tape deck.

[coondogtheman1234]

@doritostheking

I'd like to see someone hack one apart and then wire it to a stereo and play music.

[PHOSPHOR2010]

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[john0804]

Thanks for stepping the PET through its paces. Sure brings back memories. I bought mine in '79 from a fellow air force airman for about $750. Trashed it back in the mid '90s. Always admired the apple computer, but it is amazing what software games PET developers could write using only BASIC and a limited special character set.

[111utoobmetoob111]

The very first computer I owned. I was 15 and slept about 3 hours a night.

[Macintoshplus1986]

LADE ?SYNTAX ERROR READY. LOAD "IT LOOKS GREAT" PRESS PLAY ON TAPE FOUND IT LOOKS GREAD LOADING READY. RUN IT LOOKS GREAT IT LOOKS GREAT IT LOOKS GREAT IT LOOKS GREAT IT LOOKS GREAT IT LOOKS GREAT IT LOOKS GREAT IT LOOKS GREAT BREAK IN 20 READY.

[siouxmoux3]

What hell commodore was thinking when they thought an calcator style layout for a keyboard was better then an nornal qwerty keyboard. At least they change their minds with later models of the pet that came with qwerty keyboards

[cobrachoppergirl]

Seriously, you got 750 euros for this old PET? That's $1000 US. I have one, and even older equipment... a pristine TRS-80 Model 1, and 2, 3, and 4, Heathkits, and just about every other type of antique.

[cy012201]

It should be the Commodore BET. I BET you $50 its slower than my i7.

[UberLifeTroll]

@cy012201 I bet you $50 people think your comment is pointless.

[wogfun]

damn this guy is wheeeezing

[CosteTR]

ahaha 3:54

[wozzupgamer]

2:08 OMG ITS A NOS CAN!

[KaciFoxProductions]

@wozzupgamer Defenetly is not a nos can. That is what you call a Capacitor.

[quaxk]

wow, what an amazing peace of hardware, can't help but notice the huge capacitor at the psu output, this thing needed juice :)

[MaracaTastic]

Fantastic! My dad bought one of the these in 1980. 8K memory! can you believe it?? Those were the days... Used to play "acrobat" and a realyl bad death star simulation on it

[carlcartman]

Wow. Everything moves so fast in that program. How did you keep up?

I remember buying a ton of fan copied programs for the Commodore 64 some years ago. There were a lot of PET programs, which ran just fine on the C= 64.

I kind of miss those days: the C= 64 was so easy to wite programs for that there were a ton of fan produced programs, almost all of them freeware. You could fit a lot of them on one 5 1/4" floppy. Great times...

[ForViewingOnly]

Hi, thanks for uploading. What a beautiful old machine. How much did she sell for on eBay?

[alker33]

@ForViewingOnly

it was about EUR 750,00 - it went to Italy.

[ForViewingOnly]

@alker33 That fetched a good price. Shipping must have cost the buyer a lot too - the PET must weigh 20Kg!

[pucksterz12]

Interesting looking relic. How much did these go for at that time? I would guess in the thousands.

[tiberianfiend]

Chiclet keyboard? Barf!

[FRURMELLL]

I ROFL'D when you inserted the cassette. XD

[thatguyontheright1]

I'd love to get my hands on a PET. I already have a VIC, and a couple C64s on the way. The PET just looks so Post Modern, like something out of Star Trek.

[LordGeorgeRodney]

@thatguyontheright1

this was in Wrath of Khan in Kirks home in San Francisco..

[stogi5959]

can you burn dvds on it? :))

[FCPWHAT]

I used the very same 8k PET back in the Mid 70's. Wow! I haven't seen a working one for years!

[aziliks]

wtf? pacman in cassete?

[songsforeveryone]

i want to get it very very long long ago...

[MrLastkill3r]

Wow, it's very nice "graphics" for PET!

[FlyingRayzorBlade]

Ooo look it plays GAMES :) shure is better than MW2.

[Gumpa2]

äääh i wasnt alive when these computers where new.

is the game on an audio casette?

[teknokrat1]

michael myers using a commodore?

[siggadoraj]

It amazes you how much technology has advanced? It hasn't so um ok nerd.

[legogenius]

long live the PET

[GTAGAMECounterShot]

Cool! German Pac Man Game.

[CUR50R]

tapedeck looks like those from 60ies

[ematech]

a robot !!!!! .-)

[Dms12444]

Yep, the ol' MOS 6502 running at an incredibly fast 1Mhz with a huge 8 kilobytes of RAM. All yours for $795 in 1977 (counting inflation $2,387.31 today). It amazes me how much technology has advanced to this day.

[doublepolk]

LOL it has a hood! I love these old computers

[remagoediv]

Type "wait 6502, 10" and "MICROSOFT!" will be printed on the display 10 times.

also try this really cool program

10 motor 1

20 motor 2

30 goto 10

[emilygrae]

I used a PET in school when I was in grade 8! I don't know how many versions of PacMan were out on it, but the one we played, you could BREAK out of the program, and then tell it to LIST the program, then CONTINUE the program, and it would go on, allowing you to make pacman run around the program listing... It was weird and very cool!

[robertozube]

Wow, we had these at school, weighed a ton. 8K of memory, incredible.

[mrceebees14]

I remember that thing, we used it in 5th grade in like 1983 ha.

[erikals2]

good ol' 10 and 20 minute tape loading times are back... i would much prefer an apple IIe but the commodore PET still brings back memories of reading those old computer books in high school

[cookie123456789012]

This Computer should have been seen in the film 2001 cos it looks so space stage!

[electroman210]

I learned to program on one of these in junior high. I've owned cars with less sheet metal than this! Great Video!

[cyberzonie]

Nice!

[skrinkaman]

I used one of these in High School. Got my first computer credit on this one.

[hahahatschii]

I envy you so much

[PerynDark]

haha, good ol' vintage sound of the power switch :D

[asgerms]

Great video. It captures the PET-experience very well. It was the first computer I used as a small kid, and it brings back alot of nice memories. Thanx!

[16mmDJ]

pardon my french, but that keyboard must be a bitch to type on

[Jakkinator45]

@16mmDJ i know a guy who can touch type on one NO KIDDING

[16mmDJ]

@Jakkinator45 WOAH! crazy skills!

[nopochoclos]

@16mmDJ Ergonomy in these days is not the first thing to do on a computer.

But this keyboard has no difference with mothern netbooks.. big fingers are a trouble here..

[jjovereats]

@16mmDJ Pardon mine, but I don't flippin' agree!

[creeper283]

@16mmDJ

U r absolutely right ...

[rainulous]

@16mmDJ oh yes. they are not fun.

[camronjeffron]

Yeah the pet..we got 30 of them in school in 1981 . Also still have some games for it.

[Digitalpalette]

I had one of those when I was a kid! Thanks for bringing back some memories, it thrills me that I am the first viewer of this vid.

[alker33]

well, this PET is for sale: ebay #290362537033 until 1st november 2009