RE: VCF PET Alive! - April 24th to May 2nd

From: Bil Herd <bherd_at_idsbusiness.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:34:18 -0400
Message-ID: <CE5AE52176852E428A840534B7F40A88E09D688204@idsdc01.idsbusiness.com> 
For all I know I saw "a" wood Pet and not "the" wood Pet.  It was however, "the last" wood Pet in engineering. :(

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From: owner-cbm-hackers@musoftware.de [mailto:owner-cbm-hackers@musoftware.de] On Behalf Of Bill Degnan
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Subject: Re: VCF PET Alive! - April 24th to May 2nd

If I understand correctly, there were a few of the fake wooded PET 2001's
made, there may still be some around?
Bill

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> From: "Steve Gray" <sjgray@rogers.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 12:12 PM
> To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
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>
> I'm torn.. part of me is fascinated by stories like this and part of me
is sad to hear this stuff is lost forever... I feel lucky to be able to
preserve what little I can, like my enginering/developer prototype CBM-II
machine in my collection. I just picked up a prototype Magic Voice that was
sitting in a box neglected for years... there must be more of these things
around.

Steve



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> To: "cbm-hackers@musoftware.de" <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
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> Oh yeah, that was also the last time we saw the "gold" 1 Millionth
Vic-20.
> Damm thing got paint all over the place from where the spray paint was
flaking
> off.

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> RE: VCF PET Alive! - April 24th to May 2nd

It was a matter of how much
> stuff the lab technicians wanted to pack up, move, unpack and save.  I
> don't think any of us had a single thought about years down the road, we
were
> too engrossed in surviving the week. I would love to have some of the
chip plots
> that used to hang in my office or some of the original schematics that
laid
> around.

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> Re: VCF PET Alive! - April 24th to May 2nd

I always wonder what happens
> to things like this.. I would guess like a company would want to preserve
the
> "first" product of its kind by putting them in showcases at head office
or
> something. Seems a shame to loose or just throw out something like
> that....  me sad.

Steve



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> Sent: Mon, March 29, 2010 11:47:53 AM
> Subject: RE: VCF PET Alive! -
> April 24th to May 2nd
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> I last saw it in a pile of stuff headed
> for the trash when we moved from MOS/KOP
> to West Chester. I don't
> believe I ever saw it once we hit
> WC.

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> Re: VCF PET Alive! - April 24th to May 2nd

I wonder if anyone knows
> what
> happened to the original PET prototype that was made with a wood
> case and seen
> on the cover of Popular Science magazine?... could it
> still be alive?
> ;-)

Steve



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> -
> April 24th to May 2nd
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> I just forwarded to
>
> Chuck.

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> Re: VCF PET Alive! - April 24th to May 2nd

sounds like fun.
> I
> will
> have to come up with something.

Ever see this -
> TheChuck
> Peddle Pet
> href="> href=">
href="http://vintagecomputer.net/vcf4/commodore/pet-n-peddle.jpg"
target=_blank
> >http://vintagecomputer.net/vcf4/commodore/pet-n-peddle.jpg"
> target=_blank
> >> href="http://vintagecomputer.net/vcf4/commodore/pet-n-peddle.jpg"
target=_blank
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> >> href="http://vintagecomputer.net/vcf4/commodore/pet-n-peddle.jpg"
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Bill

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> Subject: Re: VCF PET Alive! - April 24th to May 2nd
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>
>
> Excellent
> idea! I'll be there! Maybe Jim M will supply some pix
> of
> my
SuperPET that's
> been visiting with him for the last
> year or
> so.

Jack


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> Sent: Mon, March 29, 2010 4:36:29 AM
> Subject: VCF PET Alive! -
>
> April
> 24th to May 2nd
>
> Hello,

A couple of users
> on
> the Vintage
> Computer Forum have decided to
> celebrate
> the
> Commodore PET by launching
> an event called PET
> Alive!
running
> from
> April 24th to May 2nd. It
> will
> include anything from just
> arranging your
PET to
> look nice,
> to
> running some software or
> even perform some
> hardware
>
> breakthroughs.

Read more on
> this
>
> link:
> href="> href=">
href="http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?t=19926"
> target=_blank
> >http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?t=19926"
>
> target=_blank
> >> href="http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?t=19926"

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> >> href="http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?t=19926"

> target=_blank
> >http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?t=19926

I
>
>
>
> suppose in order to participate you would need to be a member of
>
> that
forum,
> but
> probably several of us already are. At
> this
> point we don't know what
> the
outcome
> will
> be.

Best
> regards

-- Anders
>
> Carlsson



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