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On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:02:44 -0400, John VanSickle wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:43:47 -0700, Darren New wrote:
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>>> You can't even buy a hard drive that won't hold five Commodore Pet
>>> computers worth of memory for every *bit* of memory a Commodore Pet
>>> could address.
>>
>> I'm trying to remember - what was the addressable space fro the Pet?
>> There were so many models, but the address space was the same on all of
>> them IIRC.
>
> They were all limited to what the 6502 processor could handle, which was
> as has been said by others here. Early Pets had only 8K of RAM
> installed, but some machines were bulked out to 32K. To think that
> those things retailed for $1k in 1979 dollars...
Yep, but the 8K PETs were a luxury; the elementary school I went to had
2K PETs.
Jim
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