Speaking of Osbornes, I recently ran across an Osborne 4 (I didn't
even know they went that high), in a nice blue and white molded plastic
case. The keyboard (kinda small) flipped open on hinges to reveal a
9"display, and couple drives (I think there were two), and given the
portables of the time it was reatively light! Was able to attempt a
power-up but no display... Bummer at $15 It almost went for the VFC 2.0
sale booth.. :)
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Did some updating to the PET FAQ, some notes on how to program sound.
including a table of the notes you can produce, a listing of the
extremely small but useful tape2disk program, etc. Next probably will
be PET memory maps (all three ROMs, orogonal upgrade and 4.0); I have
been attempting this the lazy route of scanning them in, but the books I
have all use such small point sizes that the OCR program has problems
translating. I will try to use a copier to enlarge them someday soon.
I have cleared space on one of my desks (my brother is now a proud
owner of a complete Amiga 500 system, which of course, I will still have
access to) to set up a PET after a few years without easy access to
one. This PET (32k upgrade ROMs) needs some work as one program keeps
locking it up, I suspect it may be one of the 6520s... It also needs to
have the RAM checked (anyone know a source for 4116-4s?) Once I get
comfortable working with this one I'll switch and see about getting the
SuperPET running and also the original PET (which I really want to get
to, as I now have an EPROM programmer to read the ROMs with.)
Another recent arrival is a package from DigiKey of 10-12/24 edgeboard
connectors, for making a PET joystick adaptor, a mini-networking project
I've been thinking about, and I may try this 'PET composite Video
Adapter' I have plans for to see if it actually does not work as Enrico
has warned me...
The PET shares space with a VIC-20 (also recently set-up) and maybe if
I can squeeze it in, a Plus/4 too.. Then I would have a large portion
of the Commodore 8-bit models runnable (C128, C-64,
Plus/4, VIC-20, PET). Some of my plans would be to refine my disk
collections and work up some menus and utilites for each of the machines
(including some sort of standardized compression/archive utility).
I am anxiously awaiting the new year as many more families upgrade
their older systems to something more contemporary and take their older
ones to yard sales, flea markets, and thrift shops (or maybe call me to
take them off their hands.)... ;)
Larry Anderson
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