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

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.