Commodore PET 4032 vintage computer restoration project before and after photos

This is the first ‘real’ computer I ever touched. It was maybe around 1981 or 82. Looking at the font style of the num pad really took me back, wow. We had a computer club in school which wasn’t much of a club. There must have been some kind of ‘central computer’ down in a library back room; we also had a teletype -type machine that was a dumb terminal that would talk to that ‘mainframe’ and and the only output interface was the printer (and a whole lot of paper!). Playing some kind of star wars RPG on that printer was a huge waste of paper!

All us club members played endless rounds of Space Invaders on that green-on-black PET screen. We all had a cassette tape with the game on it. And we were super geek cool.

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