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10 Oct 2024 07:22:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tell me it isn't so!  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 27 Jul 2009 20:03:20
Message: <4a6e4048$1@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:56:03 -0500, David H. Burns wrote:

> The Commodore PET was one of those desk tops with a built in monitor. It
> had, I guess, a 16K ROM and 16K of RAM. (That's K) and
> programs we stored on a cassette tape.

The earliest PET computers had 2K of RAM in them, not sure what the ROM 
size was, but it wasn't big.

Those older models also had the "chicklet" keyboard - good for elementary 
students (which I was at the time), not so good for people with "grown 
up" hands.

Jim


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