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Path: ns.cityscape.co.uk!tony
From: tony@ns.cityscape.co.uk (Tony Jewell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: PET 2001 ?
Date: 29 Sep 1995 10:58:13 GMT
Organization: CityScape Internet Sevices
Message-ID: <44gjg5$o56@news.cityscape.co.uk>
References: <44fbpd$km7@news.cityscape.co.uk>
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William R. Ward (hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU) wrote:
: Is this the *really* early PET with the internal tape drive and the
: impossible keyboard, or the slightly newer one with a "real" keyboard
: and external tape deck?
Indeed - it has a cream internal tape drive and the square 'chicklet'
keyboard.
: If the former, and it's in good working order, you've got a pretty
: rare find, those are hard to come by these days. It runs BASIC 2.0,
: which is the same BASIC as the C64, so *simple* programs should run on
: it. I think though that some of the early PET's used a form of ASCII
: where the upper case and lower case letters were reversed, so it might
: look funny if you run them.
I think you're right. Shifted keys produce graphics, unshifted produce
upper case. There appears to be no lower case characters.
Cheers !
Tony.
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