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 > > wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.orgReceived on 2019-04-01 04:00:03
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