RE: Buck Rogers and the Commodore PET

I still have my "first edition" PET that was released in Australia - has no
Commodore branding on it at all - it was marketed here (and released by)
Hanimex - who branded it as the Hanimex 2000.

Lance

-----Original Message-----
From: William Levak [mailto:wlevak@SDF.ORG] 
Sent: Monday, 1 April 2019 12:41 PM
To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
Subject: Re: Buck Rogers and the Commodore PET


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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