[torontocbm] Re: Idea for next TPUG Meeting
- From: "Ken Rath" <kenrath@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:33:21 -0400
I was lucky enough to "try out" the only PET we had at my school - I think it
was a 4032 if I remember correctly - when I was in Grade 7 and 8.
Near the end of Grade 9 I found out that the school I was transferring to was
getting a "whole lab" of PETs and there would be Grade 11 & 12 level computer
courses. They let me take them a year early so I ended up learning,
programming and of course playing on those PETs in Grade 10. I think there
were 10 or 12 PETs altogether - all 8032s - hooked to one 8050 (I think) drive
via the "muppet" network system. It was very cool see an early form of
"networked computers" at that time - at least it was until someone overwrote
your program disk because you forgot to take it out of the 8050 drive! :) lol
Ken Rath
----- Original Message -----
From: joseph palumbo
To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Idea for next TPUG Meeting
>I remember being in grade 6 and using a PET in my sisters' classroom.
Grade 6?!? I had to wait to grade 10 in my high school till the
teachers thought we students were finally mature enough to properly handle and
treat with respect such a powerful machine as the 4016 PET computer!. After
all, you couldn't touch the electronic typewriters until the second semester of
grade 9!
Joseph Palumbo
--- On Tue, 3/10/09, Rick Towns <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Rick Towns <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Idea for next TPUG Meeting
To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Received: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 11:31 PM
I second that! I remember being in grade 6 and using a PET in my
sisters'classroom. The teacher (Mr. West) taught me to type in:M 0000 FFFFand
I'd just watch all the numbers scroll by! LOL! Then he let me playMiner 49er!
:oPOn 10-Mar-09, at 7:19 PM, James Alexander wrote:> Hey Leif,> > What if some
of the PET guys did a PET/CBM thing for at least part of thenight. I don't
have any of this stuff but was first computer I used beforeI had my own and
wouldn't mind seeing it again. Keeping the P in TPUG is agood thing.> > Leif
Bloomquist wrote:>> Hi all,>> >> Just to mix things up a bit: Would there be
interest in an"Other>> 70s/80s Computers" night at the March TPUG meeting?
(March 19th)>> >> I've got some Tandy gear that's been sadly neglected, and
Iknow many>> others at TPUG have other retrocomputing interests but no venue
in>> which to showcase
them. I for one would be seeing some of your other>> systems.>> >> To keep it
somewhat on topic, we could always compare/contrast them>> with Commodore
machines from the same era.>> >> Comments, discussion?>> >> Regards,>> -Leif>>
>> > >
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