Commodore PET 2001 from 1977
Posted by druc@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 8 comments
Posted by druc@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 8 comments
Academic-Shoulder308@reddit
we had a commodore pet in our hs computer class 82-83
CompleteTruth@reddit
That computer right there is where I got my start as a programmer. They couldn’t pull me away from it in grade school and that passion turned into a 30 year career in software development. Thank you Commodore!
sarajevo81@reddit
The question is, was it moral to torture thousands of children with terrible 8-bit machines and BASIC, so 1 or 2 of them became a programmer? I started to doubt it recently.
CompleteTruth@reddit
I wouldn’t call it torture or immoral. It was 1980, we were lucky to have access to a computer in the classroom at all, and I absolutely loved it. Or did you forget a /s?
sarajevo81@reddit
Children liked to play computer games, yes, but those monstrosities were not used for that. And it is not about you, it's about other children who had to suffer.
Bits_Passats@reddit
The one with custom memory chips... I won't forget you!
Valen-Darker@reddit
Yes! The Electronic Computer Programming Institute (ECPI) in Kansas City had these in the lab. It's where I learned Basic in 1979. I coveted this until I bought my Commodore 64 two years later.
NullPointerJunkie@reddit
In high school I pulled one out a closet and did some BASIC coding to use it for a school display. Still worked 14 years later.