PET Rocks! The Commodore PET Story

Little Car May 30, 2025
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This is a secondary channel to my main channel - Big Car (https://www.youtube.com/bigcar2) that focuses on car videos. This channel has videos on other topics that interest me, but also companion videos to the Big Car channel. I hope you find it interesting! If you need to contact me, e-mail is probably best as I don't check social media very often, but I don't do paid promotions or endorsements, so please don't ask.

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The PET was one of three personal computers that appeared in 1977. For Commodore it was something that had to succeed as their existing businesses were dying. The gamble paid off in spectacular fashion, and they went on to dominate the 1980s with some excellent computers. That foundation was built with the PET, their first fully integrated home computer and a machine that went on to have a much longer life than you might realise. Many thanks to Chuck Hutchins for allowing me to use parts of his PET video. Take a look at his videos: @HutchCA If you'd like to support what I do please consider supporting me below: PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/bigcartv Big Car merch: https://teespring.com/stores/bigcartv Link to my other channel - Big Car: https://https://www.youtube.com/bigcar2 Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6800 http://retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/mdt-650-mos-technology/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHF9lMseP8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP9y_7it3ZM http://home.total.net/~hrothgar/museum/PET2001/CBM2040.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc http://www.z80.eu/dos65.html https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/cp-m-for-the-6502-no-joke.10786/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CBM-II https://jeremyreimer.com/rockets-item.lsp?p=137 https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing19770910/page/n39/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_128

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