16K RAM was 300 bucks in 1977

From: Phil Clayton <handyman_at_sprintmail.com>
Date: Tue Oct 13 10:39:39 1998

Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
>
> Phil Clayton wrote:
>
>
> Keybounce was a periodic problem with my first system under Level II.
> It came back every time I turned the machine over and dumped out the
> month or two worth of cigarette ashes that had accumulated, lasted
> maybe a week until I'd dropped enough more inside.
> >
> > In 1980 I moved into a Commodore Pet with a single IEEE Floppy drive, this was like heaven, A
> > nice clear green 9 inch monochrome monitor, no more cassette tapes, 32K RAM, what more could a
> > person want.. Well OK, add a Printer another $700.00, and a 300 baud modem $200.00.. And at
> > about $2600.00 I had a dream machine.. Phil...
>
> Checked out a Pet with the original tiny rectangle keyboard before I
> went with the TRS-80. Yuck. Turned me off the Pet (and anything else
> with a 6502) to this very day (and the Atari 400 keyboard didn't help
> much either).

The Commodore Pet I purchased in 1980 had a full size keyboard with
numeric keypad. This model 2001 was much improved over the original Pet
with chicklet keyboard, however I wished I could today find one of the
old Pet's with chicklette keyboard, they are very rare these days.
The Radio Shack Model One was a great unit, I spent thousands of hours
on it befor I went to the Commodore Pet...
Phil...
Received on Tue Oct 13 1998 - 10:39:39 BST

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