Hi, I'm a long time commodore enthusiast. Congrats on getting that to work. I remember seeing these 8032's on page advertisements & articles in computer magazines, namely in commodore-specific mags. I actually still have those mags. This model was unique in that they had that "futuristic" sleek curves & lines of the case, unlike all the other commodore machines ever produced. Ira Velinksy is the case designer, as well as designing other commodore cases. I don't have an 8032 though, but I still have all my commodore 64 stuff throughout the ages. I too am also into electronics, since the early 1980's. Hopefully you find the other keycaps.
Early 80's I believe the Pet ended, I remember playing with these at a CIT Open Day as a 12 yr old in 1978. A truly interesting example of the Personal Computer and 100% a US product to combat the scourge that was Japanese Tech.... (China was still an Agricultural nation) Built a Basic language kit form ZX80 a few years later which was interesting and shortly after that another Kit form Dick Smith Cat 200 (Dishwashing job paid well) for my first foray into DOS because buggered if I was going to stick to Cassette player data storage lol Commodore Machines were probably the First Games Consoles as that was what most households used them for and tough as nutz withstanding the use and occasional abuse kids gave them. After DOS machines and emulator boards playing cross brand Basic and CMB games on DOS machines was a breeze and 5 inch double sides floppy disks gave a massive 1.2 meg of storage for viewing 8 bit Mono bewbs while playing solitaire :-) Love your work mate!
these zip tied video memory srams came from the seller with short legs. Don’t know if they were like that new or if are tested pulls. They work them selves out of the sockets if not zip tied. I am thinking about buying a set elsewhere.
Beautiful system. Congrats on the repair, that sounds like it was quite the battle!
Hi, I'm a long time commodore enthusiast. Congrats on getting that to work. I remember seeing these 8032's on page advertisements & articles in computer magazines, namely in commodore-specific mags. I actually still have those mags. This model was unique in that they had that "futuristic" sleek curves & lines of the case, unlike all the other commodore machines ever produced. Ira Velinksy is the case designer, as well as designing other commodore cases. I don't have an 8032 though, but I still have all my commodore 64 stuff throughout the ages. I too am also into electronics, since the early 1980's. Hopefully you find the other keycaps.
Early 80's I believe the Pet ended, I remember playing with these at a CIT Open Day as a 12 yr old in 1978. A truly interesting example of the Personal Computer and 100% a US product to combat the scourge that was Japanese Tech.... (China was still an Agricultural nation)
Built a Basic language kit form ZX80 a few years later which was interesting and shortly after that another Kit form Dick Smith Cat 200 (Dishwashing job paid well) for my first foray into DOS because buggered if I was going to stick to Cassette player data storage lol
Commodore Machines were probably the First Games Consoles as that was what most households used them for and tough as nutz withstanding the use and occasional abuse kids gave them.
After DOS machines and emulator boards playing cross brand Basic and CMB games on DOS machines was a breeze and 5 inch double sides floppy disks gave a massive 1.2 meg of storage for viewing 8 bit Mono bewbs while playing solitaire :-)
Love your work mate!
Wow another PET saved from the Pet Cemetrey
Those 4 ICs won't escape ever again... :D
these zip tied video memory srams came from the seller with short legs. Don’t know if they were like that new or if are tested pulls. They work them selves out of the sockets if not zip tied. I am thinking about buying a set elsewhere.