TV Spot: CBM Pet

OK, I think I'd better de-lurk at this point. My name's Philip. I was on the ClassicCmp list years ago (my e-mail address in those days was philip.belben at powertech.co.uk but that's long-since gone), but gave up because of the high traffic. Now I have e-mail at home, I've subscribed to the cctech list again. I have more old computers than I know what to do with, so I'm quite choosy about getting new ones, and I don't spend much time hacking the existing ones, but I'm determined they'll not be thrown away... Anyway, I grew up with Commodore PETs of various descriptions, so... Thanks for the pictures. I'd say it's an early 8032, before the SK version. (SK means "Separate Keyboard" if you're Commodore, "Silly Kasing" if you're anyone else.) Same large but angular monitor as the later ("Fat 40") 4032. I'm going by the screen shot. How fake is fake? It's probably fake in that they're not logged in to a mainframe using a PET - it must have been one of the worst micros possible for that! - but I'm pretty sure that screen shot is the PET character set in 80 column, wide line spacing mode. The characteristic slashed zeros are one clue, but the lower case g that is slightly raised to make room for the descender is the clincher. Philip.