{"id":107,"date":"2010-12-27T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skooldays.com\/blog\/commodore-pet\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T08:46:38","slug":"commodore-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/commodore-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodore PET"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Commodore PET<\/span> was a huge computer which looked so space-aged that Star Trek in the 1960s would of been proud of it.\u00a0The\u00a0<strong>Commodore PET<\/strong>\u00a0stood for the letters\u00a0<em><strong>P<\/strong>ersonal\u00a0<strong>E<\/strong>lectronic\u00a0<strong>T<\/strong>ransactor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remarkably the Commodore PET still has a thriving on-line community. From it&#8217;s launch in 1977 of the first PET model called the 2001 made huge waves in the business world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1545\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1545\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1545\" title=\"Commodore_PET\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET.jpg\" alt=\"The Commodore PET \" width=\"700\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Commodore PET from 1977<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The monochrome screen and limited font package meant loads of imagination was needed for anything to takr place that was worth using it for.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Weren&#8217;t\u00a0a lot of them a green screen? I can&#8217;t remember\u00a0whether\u00a0they were just a green transfer added onto the screen to save your retina or whether it was truly a green screen on the PET.<\/p>\n<p>The Commodore PET could display certain characters so most of the games consisted of guiding an asterisk around a line maze with the capital M as a monster.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine who was really into programming it, showed me the only game that ever impressed me &#8211; Pacman. The Pacman version on it was actually very playable, though it looked particularly pixelly and poor compared to the arcade version at the time.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of my first brushes with a \u00a0new personal computer \u00a0and the PC market was literally about to explode.<\/p>\n<p>What memories did you have of the Commodore PET by \u00a0Commodore Business Machines?<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/commodore-pet\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Commodore PET\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET-377x300.jpg 377w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commodore_PET.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>The Commodore PET was a huge computer which looked so space-aged that Star Trek in the 1960s would of been proud of it.\u00a0The\u00a0Commodore PET\u00a0stood for the letters\u00a0Personal\u00a0Electronic\u00a0Transactor. 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