PET Rabbit utility uploaded to zimmers.net

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never worked with the C-64 version of Rabbit, but I do have a 4K ROM
> Rabbit for my PET 2001-32N (3032)

I also have a tape-loadable version of the Rabbit, with a 2K payload that
gets installed at $7800 (there were different versions for 16K and 8K PETs,
but I never had those).

After years of trying to get replacement drive belts for my stack of C2N tape
drives, I have _finally_ gotten a working tape drive (off the free table at the
recent Vintage Computer Festival-Midwest) and have backed up my
Rabbit install tape and uploaded it to ftp.zimmers.net:/incoming/cbm/pet-cbm
*with* a readme.

> and I just found the original manual
> (though it's water-damaged and needs to be scanned).

I have not scanned the manual (yet) but I did upload with the binary
an ASCII copy of the manual which is accurate outside of any corrected
original typos.

> I personally have a shoebox-full of PET Rabbit tapes of stuff I wrote
> c. 1979-1981 and of backups of commercials stuff...

I was also able to recover a couple of those tapes, the Chimera
and Hooptedoodle game sets and Creative Computing's "Conversational
Games" (ELIZA and such).  Additionally, I have a set of museum demo
programs (for 16K PETs) from a late 1970s travelling exhibit on Energy
and Energy Conservation (two versions of Hangman, "Driving for $$$"
and an energy quiz).  I have not yet uploaded these.

I was pretty happy to have 98% success reading 30-35-year-old tapes.

Now I just need to find which machine or parts drawer the 2532 with
ROM Rabbit ended up in.

-ethan

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