Commodore PET Repair and Restore

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The sys command is for an addon rom called the "picchip"

Now I feel the need to crawl through my basement and find my remaining PET 4016 that I kept to make a program to control my model trains

WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT?!

Id have just gave it a wack with my hand, sorts most issues out 🤗👍🏆

Dude, the video was awesome!!!

Cool

Are the PET keycaps double shot? Or are they just black paint over white plastic?

Broken tech is one of my PET peeves

Poking a metal screwdriver into the vent holes of a CRT sounds like a terrible idea.

i have a question i was watching your videos for a long time and i wanted to now but were can you get a macintosh or a old pc for a good price because i would like to start my collection of old pc and what do you sugeste that i start with contacte me pls

what's the eprom for?

I love your channel, sir. Lots of memories. I was looking at the Pet when I decided on the then-new Apple II+ .... I keep hoping I'll find another one at a non-ebay price. I think I'm outta luck. :)

Ive got pacman for the commodore pet it uses ASCI code for the graphics

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I took a BASIC class in school in 7th grade back in 1983 and we used PETs. I remember always carrying several 5.25" floppies along with my books and folders in my backpack for that class (which seemed very cool and high tech at the time 😄). 👍

Is there an ic on those keyboards that would prevent the continuity?

I’ll bet they are more than just a few hundred dollars now.

That is a really cool looking computer.

When I was at university in the 1990s a friend found a fully functional PET 8032 in a skip/dumpster and gave it to me.

I sold it for quite a bit of cash in about 2020 because I just didn't have any space for it. Prices on ebay are crazy at the moment.

great troubleshooting fix. I love watching the process of figuring it out. nice and ez too.

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I had the same dim CRT problem when I booted up an old computer a while ago, my dad needed me for something and I forgot to turn off the machine. Two hours later I came back and realized that the monitor somehow got brighter, if a CRT is ever dim like that, it probably just needs time to get warmed up.

Great video. Can you explain how the Pet has Commodore Basic 4.0 v C64 Commodore Basic 2.0?

I realized that some old computer are always broken in the monitor or the keyboard.

i see that is 4016

my dead dog

I believe the chip you found was call Toolbox or such. It was an after market item which added functionality for programing. I can only remember one or two of the commands - there were about 10 as best as I can recall. My favorite was "renumber" This renumbered all of the lines of code by some amount. For example the command "renumber 10, 10" would start at line 10 and renumber all subsequent lines in 10 increments. It did not work on the "gosub" command, as I recall.(That is more or less how the renumber worked but I'm sure the command is not absolute correct) There was also a "trace" command and a "step" command and more I believe. It's been about 50 years (I am 90 years old now) since I've programed a Pet so my memory is a bit dim! Besides PC are much more fun to use.

This is the best thing I ever saw.

did you ever find out what that SYS Command did yet?

You could have kept going with the pencil, although the longevity seems kind of questionable.

I remember watching this a while back, dem memories.

I did a quick search on PAICS, and SYS 40960 runs a program on the ROM called PicChip that adds graphics commands to BASIC.

i wish i had your patience great job

It’s been 5 years now. How’s that keyboard repair holding up? Thanks. :)

Where did you even get a pet

The toolkit EPROM adds commands like Renumber.

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i believe that the pos systems at Montgomery ward stores were pet based

Commodore pet: the most 70s looking PC

another great cleaning weapon we have in Australia is called Sugar Soap its used on anything thats beenm used near smoking it will remove all organic type grime from any paited or plastic surface / anyway great video its great to see a real pet computer @ 56 bi still havnt seen a pet in person 🙂👍🍺

Windows password recovery question. "What was your first pet's name?" David: "PET 4016"

David has been doing these videos for so long that they are becoming vintage themselves.

I miss the videos like this one.

I'd be happy enough just to have a non working one of these to sit on my shelf, they do look great

ngl ive stayed up 26 hours straight bingeing 8 bit guy content

7 years later, how has the keyboard contact coating held up?