nige the hippy
Veteran Member
Well done! After meeting you I reckon you're an appropriate new owner (make of that what you will!) (p.s. glad it's gone to someone I like, it's rather good)
- VCF South West - June 14 - 16, Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at University of Texas at Dallas
- VCF West - Aug 2 - 3, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
- VCF Midwest - Sept 7 - 8 2024, Schaumburg, IL
- VCF SoCal - Mid February 2025, Location TBD, Southern CA
- VCF East - April 2025, Infoage Museum, Wall NJ
-
Please review our updated Terms and Rules here
Orange PET - Ebay UK
- Thread starter Moonferret
- Start date
Moonferret
Experienced Member
Photos !!!!
Photos !!!!
Hi Folks!
Well, I managed to pick up the PET over the weekend. It can confirm it is indeed orange!!
Some photos...
The seller had owned the machine for a number of years after rescuing it from a skip at Keele university where it had been used to control a centrifuge in the physics lab. The company, MSE still exists and is still sells centrifuge's. I doubt they still support the PET though
There are two extra boards fitted to the machine. When connected they cause the system to boot into a control program. Looks like the two EPROMs on the first board start the system up and then pass control to the BASIC program stored in the EPROMs on the blue card. I'm assuming the centrifuge connected via the IEE448 port as that might explain the device not found error.
Photos !!!!
Hi Folks!
Well, I managed to pick up the PET over the weekend. It can confirm it is indeed orange!!
Some photos...
The seller had owned the machine for a number of years after rescuing it from a skip at Keele university where it had been used to control a centrifuge in the physics lab. The company, MSE still exists and is still sells centrifuge's. I doubt they still support the PET though
There are two extra boards fitted to the machine. When connected they cause the system to boot into a control program. Looks like the two EPROMs on the first board start the system up and then pass control to the BASIC program stored in the EPROMs on the blue card. I'm assuming the centrifuge connected via the IEE448 port as that might explain the device not found error.
donutty
Experienced Member
That must have been a pretty doozy centrifuge to need computer control. I thought all they did was spin?!