Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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.

Wow! I actually took those numbers from my TRS 80 Model III. They did a 
lot with a little
memory in those days. The PET I had had a full-sized normal keyboard, 
IIRC (If I
remember correctly).
> 
> 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

David

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