On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:29:08AM +0100, John Honniball wrote:
John S wrote:
More eBay madness perhaps, these normally go for
?50:
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300234790958
Or is it some 'rare' model? No doubt we'll see
a flury or these now the market has picked up.
It looks just like the one I was trying to get running today.
Mine's a 32K DRAM model with the same 9-inch screen as the
eBay one. He doesn't give much information about it, though.
Not even the proper model number, or the memory size.
Visually (which is all we have to go on, obviously), it
resembles my first PET - badged 2001 with a graphic keyboard,
mine came with 32K (but was apparently available in 4K, 8K,
16K, and 32K with different types and numbers of DRAMs) and
BASIC 2.0. For the Europeans out there, its the same as a
3032. TTL video, not CTRC, so the board is radically different
from a 4032, at least in that portion (same I/O,
memory, ROM
sockets, memory layout, etc.)
I would say that it's probably not the most common model,
but they still made a bunch of them.
_I_ wouldn't pay $800 for one now (but I still have the one
I bought new for $1100 in 1979, so I don't have to buy one
now ;-)
-ethan
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