Comments on: Commodore SuperPET http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/09/01/commodore-superpet/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:59:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Reg Beck http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/09/01/commodore-superpet/comment-page-1/#comment-152777 Reg Beck Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:56:11 +0000 http://mikenaberezny.com/?p=370#comment-152777 You are lucky to find one. I should have kept mine but had no room and needed a PC for a programming job I had so had to get rid of it. I bought mine and the dual floppy drive (and later the single high density floppy drive) soon after they came out. I wrote a script for my dot matrix printer that allowed it to print the APL character set. I came to the SuperPet via the Commodore 8K Pet and was already a BASIC programmer. I had taken a summer institute course in APL and also learned the 6809 Assembler and Pascal. A couple of years after I got the machine I became the APL column editor of the SuperPet user group's publication, "The SuperPet Gazette". It was an incredible machine and it wouldn't have bothered me at all if the evolution of computing machines had ended with the SuperPet! By the time the user group folded we had completely figured out how the SuperPet worked. Unfortunately, the editor of the user group moved on to an Amiga and soon after that followed the demise of the SuperPet. You are lucky to find one. I should have kept mine but had no room and needed a PC for a programming job I had so had to get rid of it. I bought mine and the dual floppy drive (and later the single high density floppy drive) soon after they came out. I wrote a script for my dot matrix printer that allowed it to print the APL character set. I came to the SuperPet via the Commodore 8K Pet and was already a BASIC programmer. I had taken a summer institute course in APL and also learned the 6809 Assembler and Pascal. A couple of years after I got the machine I became the APL column editor of the SuperPet user group’s publication, “The SuperPet Gazette”. It was an incredible machine and it wouldn’t have bothered me at all if the evolution of computing machines had ended with the SuperPet! By the time the user group folded we had completely figured out how the SuperPet worked. Unfortunately, the editor of the user group moved on to an Amiga and soon after that followed the demise of the SuperPet.

]]> By: Gary Ratliff Sr. http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/09/01/commodore-superpet/comment-page-1/#comment-148241 Gary Ratliff Sr. Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:06:28 +0000 http://mikenaberezny.com/?p=370#comment-148241 I was an Associate Editor of the SuperPET Gazette for several years. I recently downloaded the manuals for all the SuperPET languages in pdf format. I think this was from Dav's Old Computers. He has quite a collection of old computers and may be able to help with your restoration efforts. While working of the Gazette the editor sent me a disk with most of the software projects from its first two years of operation. This was in 1981 and once the IBM PC claimed to have invented computers and took over the market most of the users switched to either the Amiga or the to PC. I have long ago misplaced these disks. Good luck with your restoration and data gathering efforts. I still have a Kaypro 10 and a Zorba sustem which runs CP/M and has z80 chips. This ran the last time I took it out of storage. Regards, Gary PS. I am currently writing a series of artciles on computer languages: An Alphabet of Computer Languages. I have has articles in issues since the Dec. 2007 issue and till the change of editors to the one who seemed to abandon the magazine. I was an Associate Editor of the SuperPET Gazette for several years. I recently downloaded the manuals for all the SuperPET languages in pdf format. I think this was from Dav’s Old Computers. He has quite a collection of old computers and may be able to help with your restoration efforts.

While working of the Gazette the editor sent me a disk with most of the software projects from its first two years of operation. This was in 1981 and once the IBM PC claimed to have invented computers and took over the market most of the users switched to either the Amiga or the to PC. I have long ago misplaced these disks. Good luck with your restoration and data gathering efforts.

I still have a Kaypro 10 and a Zorba sustem which runs CP/M and has z80 chips. This ran the last time I took it out of storage.

Regards,

Gary

PS. I am currently writing a series of artciles on computer languages:
An Alphabet of Computer Languages. I have has articles in issues since the Dec. 2007 issue and till the change of editors to the one who seemed to abandon the magazine.

]]> By: Ian M http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/09/01/commodore-superpet/comment-page-1/#comment-137214 Ian M Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:56:41 +0000 http://mikenaberezny.com/?p=370#comment-137214 Hi Mike, I must say, that your restoration work is certainly interesting and worth following. I have been taking a look through your website, in search of some help with Commodore 64 / Commodore PET / Commodore 128. I will be coming into a stock of them (2x 128, 1x64, 1x PET 4032). I haven't used a Commodore system since I was a child, so I am a bit rusty with the systems, however I do want to get back into using them. I do actually have a plan on them, and I am wondering if I could bounce some ideas off of you. I will admit, I am not a basic programmer, so I am a bit lost with it. I am wondering what sort of Network functionality would be possible with a Commodore, I have done some digging and I can't really find anything about it, I am wondering if it would be possible to set up a serial network / bbs functionality? At least with the C128s? I am assuming Ethernet is out of the question, what about token ring? I apologize for not being fully informed with the issue. If you could contact me back at imacgillivary@gmail.com that would be greatly appreciated, Thanks! Hi Mike,

I must say, that your restoration work is certainly interesting and worth following.
I have been taking a look through your website, in search of some help with Commodore 64 / Commodore PET / Commodore 128. I will be coming into a stock of them (2x 128, 1×64, 1x PET 4032).

I haven’t used a Commodore system since I was a child, so I am a bit rusty with the systems, however I do want to get back into using them. I do actually have a plan on them, and I am wondering if I could bounce some ideas off of you.

I will admit, I am not a basic programmer, so I am a bit lost with it. I am wondering what sort of Network functionality would be possible with a Commodore, I have done some digging and I can’t really find anything about it, I am wondering if it would be possible to set up a serial network / bbs functionality? At least with the C128s?

I am assuming Ethernet is out of the question, what about token ring? I apologize for not being fully informed with the issue.

If you could contact me back at imacgillivary@gmail.com that would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!

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