Anyone Reconized this PET ?

[Patrick.B (TTR)]

I have someone asked me to get a pair of PET systems back to functionality, one is a 8032 Series easy enough to identify as seen in the picture, next to it is like a Pet2001 but with no cassette next to the keyboard, and as seen in the picture it like 1/2 the size of the 8032 model
Does anyone have an idea or seen this before, I am wondering if it is a prototype ? or just a rehoused pet2001?

There are switches on one side and a volume control on the other, and lastly a picture of the inside.

 

[krebizfan]

Supposedly, the prototype PET had a chiclet keyboard but no tape drive. I haven't found a picture of that to compare. I would be very surprised if that is one. However, I don't exactly find it plausible that someone would build a replacement PET case and choose to keep the chiclets.

 

[Hutch]

The Prototype was wooden with curved styling and a cassette drive. I've never seen that one before, it looks like someone's project.
The PCB is from a '79 2001-N and I see what looks like a VIC-20 8K RAM cartridge. The voltage regulators are removed and it looks like a custom power supply.

The Commodore PET 2001 wooden prototype

The Commodore PET prototype, 1977

blog.hutchins1.net

 

[Radix]

Pretty sure someone has put a 9" pet screen part on a Texas Silent 700 case as the lower part and made the keyboard cutout to fit the chiclet keyboard...

Personally not a fan of this type of thing - especially when people claim to have made a "new" or "original" machine - but each to their own!!

 

[daver2]

That is exactly what I first thought of!

The soldering and construction looks too poor to be professionally done by a company, so I think this is someone's hobby machine.

Still, it was someone's pride and joy at one time!

Dave

 

[Hugo Holden]

Those 28 pin ROMs plugged into 24 pin sockets are interesting and without an adapter as seen on the 710.

The power supply looks interesting, American components with what looks like TO-66 cased devices (both transistors & SCR's came in this package), and some high frequency ferrite POT core transformers.