The Commodore SuperPET is an interesting machine and one that I've never seen. I picked up this user guide a while ago, but would love to actually see the actual computer. It features a 6502 and 6809 processor along with 96KBytes of RAM! It also comes with BASIC, PASCAL, FORTRAN and APL. - ThreadSky

kevedwardsretro.bsky.social • 36 days ago

The Commodore SuperPET is an interesting machine and one that I've never seen. I picked up this user guide a while ago, but would love to actually see the actual computer. It features a 6502 and 6809 processor along with 96KBytes of RAM! It also comes with BASIC, PASCAL, FORTRAN and APL.

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grallator.bsky.social•35 days ago

Fantastic sounding machine. Was the Fortran compiled? Also love the plastic page bounding - had several commodore user guides with these and they always fell apart.

kevedwardsretro.bsky.social•35 days ago

I really don't know. Would be great to try one of them out.

grallator.bsky.social•34 days ago

EBay, only £1.6k - collect from Birmingham! Bit pricey for me…

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205215469909?_skw=commodore+super+pet&itmmeta=01JSCTKB5K1EZZ0V285ZM0B1RS&hash=item2fc7cb9155:g:tlAAAOSw2gVh5G0m&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1cyIXIFCusTcHsaxQDWrvFHzir0FDcL9yR3%2FRbMZFCdo%2Bmg2tZk15rrR5j3GKd2iehn85mIcbAOMIx2A2TP5lxq0fOXucPgai2tjUbrQs69KGTqJArzKqZU24IOzWYAD8WwsxwRwaVxMhyJbhspXIz0soElrEDgzlbnTe5%2FyE7iB22dOg3wJ3%2BJTYmFtaTyuHZJxhKRSAV54B7vCV5diGUuxdRifV%2BM2GC8twGFtSCIFQywDlB7t3%2F5XV%2BfpRyjS50%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_iyzZrLZQ

kevedwardsretro.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yeah, crazy eBay prices. They are hard to find, though!

hast8.bsky.social•36 days ago

I didn't know that a Super PET existed. The normal PET was the first real Computer I used to learn Basic and 6502 machine language, typing programs as Hex A9 41 8D 00 40 60 = LDA 'A' STA $4000 RTS (Load Akku, Store Akku, Return from Subroutine) The first Assembler I used later, making life easier.😍

kevedwardsretro.bsky.social•36 days ago

You'll never forget those opcodes!

blacknext.bsky.social•35 days ago

$A9 (among many others) is seared into my brain.

keithmann.com•36 days ago

The "Waterloo" referred to in the docs, for those who may not know, is the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. The Pascal and FORTRAN, as well as the APL, are probably the Waterloo versions. I remember learning FORTRAN using WATFOR-77.

evilzenscientist.com•36 days ago

Looks like either/or for 6502/6809 which seems a tad limiting.

dpiponi.bsky.social•35 days ago

I was wondering how it did APL but I found a picture showing a keyboard legend for APL. Nice. My first computing job was APL...

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