A Blast From the Past - Commodore PET, Amiga, Apple Mac512K

I found these great old pieces of technology lying around my school, and couldn't help but be amazed and humbled. I was ecstatic when the old Commodore PET actually worked, and loaded Commodore BASIC 4.0! That particular model, the 4032, is from May of 1980! The Commodore Amiga, the one in the middle is the Amiga 500 from 1987, and is a marvelous piece of tech way before its time, and whose OS was better than either Windows or Apple System at the time, however it didn't gross as much or remain as popular due to not marketing itself as well as the others. Unfortunately, this is the only one that I was unable to test, as it had no power adaptor. The last one, the one on the right, is an old August 1984 Apple Macintosh 512K, all it needs to boot is the System floppy (system being the name of the OS), and a working floppy drive. Some truly marvelous pieces of technological history, still mostly operational.

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[SuperWeaponR]

What kind of adapters do you need for the A500?

[Krazee9]

@Orlor I know, I really wish we did have the adapter. And yes, it was the Mac causing all the racket, I think it was the floppy drive.

[amrit98ify]

I love these!! wish i had them..



[underneonloneliness2]

The older computers look better

[summer20105707]

You should ask if they'll let you keep them. They're not much use to the school anymore.

[phongzillaaa]

i have one of these in my garage

[Orlor]

Is that the Mac that's causing all that racket?

Too bad you didn't have the PA for the Amiga. The 500 was my very first computer. I wish I never got rid of it.

[gibs2b]

Your optiplex never had psu problem ? :-)

[surfitlive]

MY ABSOLUTE VERY FIRST COMPUTER experience was on a Commodore PET in school!!

(I tend to forget that!!) I cant even remember the grade I was in, but we did the basic programming and learned about the floppy disk. Ironically My first purchase was a C64, not realizing I worked on the PET in school before.

Choose the 64 over EXPENSIVE PCs & MACs which had no color or sound and cost MORE to get those features PLUS you had to buy an expensive monitor to use the PCs. C64 went striaght to TV!

[keiros1]

PET*

stupid iPod keyboard...