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Commodore PET => Commodore PET => PET hardware => Topic started by: lbpd716 on January 09, 2011, 08:10 PM

Title: Oddball PET - Info request
Post by: lbpd716 on January 09, 2011, 08:10 PM
Looking for more information on this rebranded PET.

Machine functions and is branded "Compu*Tech"

http://www.losbanoslive.com/pet1.jpg
http://www.losbanoslive.com/pet2.jpg

if you are familiar with or have info please reply or email.

danny at missing.com
Title: Re: Oddball PET - Info request
Post by: lbpd716 on January 11, 2011, 10:37 AM
From the vintage-computer forums:

Compu*tech was a fly-by-night organization out of Queens NY in the mid 80's. They rebranded machines from both Commodore and Apple WITH PERMISSION to put them into "special" schools... and when I say "special", I mean as in how some Olympics can be... "special". C*T DOS was just CBM DOS burned to a EPROM with the names edited. (Joy of joys when the "DOS" was in a ROM on the DRIVE -- good luck replacing that if you have to)

That's all I really know about them -- they used to have ads in the back of BYTE hitting people up for donations.

Time to start searching old BYTE magazines - Still on the hunt for a "Teachers' PET"...
Title: Re: Oddball PET - Info request
Post by: RobertB on January 11, 2011, 05:40 PM
Quote from: lbpd716 on January 11, 2011, 10:37 AMC*T DOS was just CBM DOS burned to a EPROM with the names edited.
Thanks for that info.  I was about to ask what C*T DOS was.
QuoteStill on the hunt for a "Teachers' PET"...
It was my privilege to photograph FCUG member Stephen J.'s Teacher's PET when I was in Seattle, Washington last summer.  See the thread at

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