Re: Buck Rogers and the Commodore PET

From: William Levak <wlevak_at_SDF.ORG>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 01:40:53 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1904010136090.22067@sdf.lonestar.org>
The first PETs were delivered in the fall of 1977. The episode was aired 
in Feb. 1981, which means it was filmed in 1980. Therefore it was a 
maximum of 3 years old.

The early PET,s had a blue frame around the display. The one in the 
episode had a black frame. That would make it a later version.


On Sun, 31 Mar 2019, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 5:23 PM William Levak <wlevak@sdf.org> wrote:
>> For those in the US who watched MeTV network last night, they showed the
>> 1981 "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" episode "Mark of the Saurian"....
>
>> Buck is in sick bay and the computer terminal next to his bed is actually
>> an early Commodore Pet Computer, complete with calculator style keyboard
>> and cassette deck in the front panel.
>
>> The PET would have been only two years old at the time.
>
> 1981 was four years after 1977...
>
> -ethan
>
>

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