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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:49:52 -0400
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: F&*#ing chicklet keyboards (was Re: Retro Atari 400
looking Keyboard)
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Some folks didn't even wait. Some paid over $100 for an external
"full-sized" keyboard. I bought a blue-bezel chiclet PET with the
internal cable from Skyles Electric Works for the external keyboard
(probably long since separated).
<snip>
Now (largely because issues of practicality are irrelevant), the price of a
1977/1978 chiclet-keyboard PET is several times that of a 1978 Graphic or
Business-keyboard PET.
-ethan
----- Reply -----
There was an upgrade kit available from Commodore, consisting of a
replacement upper case half with the new Graphic keyboard, a new black decal
and matching black monitor bezel, and an optional new external cassette deck
to replace the internal missing-the-corner unit.
I upgraded mine and also replaced the white screen with a green tube; glad
now I kept the original parts for the day I sell it...
m
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