Re: Past Blast - "Wonder Woman 1984" - Corp Guy Using PET

On 4/2/25 3:08 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 05:34:59 -0400, c186282 wrote:
 

PETs weren't terrible PCs ... 1Mhz 6502, not much diff from the Apple-II
performance-wise. Kinda always wanted one. I've got an A2, with
floppies, but don't dare turn it on lest old capacitors pop.

 Sprague Electric, which was a major manufacturer of tantalum capacitors,
had a number of PETs. They used the HP-IB (GPIB) for their peripherals
which made them very convenient for connecting to HP instrumentation at
about a quarter the cost of a HP computer.
 Besides, you could play 'snake' on them.

   Heh heh  :-)
   The A2 was a good model for the IBM-PC in having
   on-board plug-in cards. The competition stuck to
   external "serial" periphs.
   Also always wanted a good S-100 system ... but
   could not afford one way back then. THINK they
   hung on all the way to the 68k chips, but after
   that the bus was too slow. NOW I can't afford
   a working re-sell  :-)