Re: Buck Rogers and the Commodore PET

Oh, yes....I had forgotten the label. Mine came with a rather silly looking one with a shiny finish, and I was able to buy a newer label from Commodore that had the matte black background, much classier looking.

Another difference....mine had a card edge connector for the expansion on the right side, but I believe that later ones went with a dual row pin header or something like that.

But I agree about the phosphor....mine was a white, or very light blue.....I think it looked a lot better than the later green phosphors......

I wish I had kept that PET. These days I have a later model with the business keyboard (that, and an SX-64 with a non-functioning disk drive).


Paul Schmidt
ocleide@earthlink.net


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>From: Mike Stein <mhs.stein@gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 1, 2019 2:26 PM
>To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
>Subject: Re: Buck Rogers and the Commodore PET
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Paul Schmidt" <ocleide@earthlink.net>
>To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
>Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 10:40 PM
>Subject: RE: Buck Rogers and the Commodore PET
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>> All this is to say that the bezel color is probably not a very reliable
>> indicator of PET age, at least in the sense that a black bezel does not
>> necessarily mean that it is NOT an early one.
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>Agreed. The phosphor colour might be a better indication; AFAIK the early ones had white  phosphor CRTs while the later ones were green.
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>But everything could be upgraded; there was an upgrade kit that replaced the upper case half with the new keyboard and the newer bezel and label, and even the green CRTs were available. On the other hand, especially in schools, old motherboards were often replaced with new ones.
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