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Soon after that launch, Commodore realised they had a winner, and when they had depleted their small supply of surplus calculator keys they used for their launch machines (they were in the calculator business, but had lost out to Texas Instruments) they realised a better keyboard was needed, so they removed the built in tapedeck to make room for one, and released this improved version as the "Commodore Business Machine" or CBM in three types, one with 8K RAM, one with 16K RAM and one with 32K RAM, this last one was called the type 2032, where the 32 stood for the amount of 32K RAM | Soon after that launch, Commodore realised they had a winner, and when they had depleted their small supply of surplus calculator keys they used for their launch machines (they were in the calculator business, but had lost out to Texas Instruments) they realised a better keyboard was needed, so they removed the built in tapedeck to make room for one, and released this improved version as the "Commodore Business Machine" or CBM in three types, one with 8K RAM, one with 16K RAM and one with 32K RAM, this last one was called the type 2032, where the 32 stood for the amount of 32K RAM | ||
The 8K and 16K machines proved to be less popular, and really only were bought by people who tried to convert them to 32K machines themselves, a practice Commodore actively tried to make impossible by drilling large holes in the place on the board where the second 16K RAM bank was located! | The 8K and 16K machines proved to be less popular, and really only were bought by people who tried to convert them to 32K machines themselves, a practice Commodore actively tried to make impossible by drilling large holes in the place on the board where the second 16K RAM bank was located! See Picture below: | ||
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I have both the later 80-kolums machine (the 8032) and the original 40-kolums machine the CBM 2032, the first one works but not the latter one, which sucks as all the good software was written for the 40-kolums machine, so I'm trying to repair it. | I have both the later 80-kolums machine (the 8032) and the original 40-kolums machine the CBM 2032, the first one works but not the latter one, which sucks as all the good software was written for the 40-kolums machine, so I'm trying to repair it. | ||
Revision as of 00:23, 12 July 2017
| Project repair PET2001 (AKA CBM2032) | |
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| Een poging tot reparatie van een echte klassieker, de PET uit 1977 | |
| Status | In progress |
| Contact | Mahjongg |
| Last Update | 2017-07-12 |
The original PET (The "Blue PET" variant" with calculator keys, and a built in tapedeck) was one of the "Trinity", The three first commercial, microprocessor based, "home computers" which were almost simultaneously released in 1977. They started the microcomputer (personal computer) revolution, and the trinity was the PET 2001 from Commodore, the TRS-80 model 1 from Tandy corporation, and the Apple ][ from Apple computers.
Soon after that launch, Commodore realised they had a winner, and when they had depleted their small supply of surplus calculator keys they used for their launch machines (they were in the calculator business, but had lost out to Texas Instruments) they realised a better keyboard was needed, so they removed the built in tapedeck to make room for one, and released this improved version as the "Commodore Business Machine" or CBM in three types, one with 8K RAM, one with 16K RAM and one with 32K RAM, this last one was called the type 2032, where the 32 stood for the amount of 32K RAM The 8K and 16K machines proved to be less popular, and really only were bought by people who tried to convert them to 32K machines themselves, a practice Commodore actively tried to make impossible by drilling large holes in the place on the board where the second 16K RAM bank was located! See Picture below:
I have both the later 80-kolums machine (the 8032) and the original 40-kolums machine the CBM 2032, the first one works but not the latter one, which sucks as all the good software was written for the 40-kolums machine, so I'm trying to repair it.
repair at Revspace started 11 July 2017
The symptoms are that the system when turned on gives an inverted (all white) picture with only a black blinking cursor, and the picture is very unstable, as if there are large amounts of ripple in the power supply, and it also disappears unless you tap the enclosure. So I had already replaced the massive 23000 MFD (microfarad) 15V DC "Bulk Elco" with screw terminals tie-rapped to the bottom of the case, and a slightly smaller 4700uF 25V axial elco on the main board, but without any change, So probably one of the elco's in the monitor itself has gone bad, I have now removed the monitor (head part) from the PET, and removed another elco from its PCB, next time I will bring a replacement elco, and a new fuse (large size 3/4A 250V slow blow) which I blew due to me stupidly shorting the 18V AC lead leading the the monitor from a very bulky transformer.