ajgriff
Experienced Member
Hello and thank you for having me. About thirty years ago I used to buy the occasional VIC 20, C64 or Spectrum from car boot sales when such things were unpopular and cheap. They were largely for the amusement of my children and although I'm a lifelong electronics hobbyist I never had to do much with the computers in terms of repairs. At the time I also acquired a non-working PET 2001-8 with calculator style keyboard which typically just displayed the frozen random character (garbage) screen at switch-on. Life was hectic back then so I'm afraid the PET lay untouched until earlier this year when I decided to see if it could be revived. The original intention was simply to get it working and then pass it on to someone with a greater interest in vintage computing. However during the restoration process I got hooked! So I'm here to learn more and hopefully pass on a few tips to anyone else faced with a non-working early PET. I should say that my knowledge of logic circuits and low level programming is still basic to say the least.
Alan
Alan