Another Amazing Video, about a Computer & Skills I never thought I would see again .. Wonderful Work,😀 Thorbjörn Jemander

Transputers were used in some high-end Rohde & Schwarz instruments back in the 1980s-early 1990s. They were used to offload signal processing tasks from the main CPU. I remember one 40GHz spectrum analyzer which had (I believe) four Transputers spread among several boards.

@fulkonto1222

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I had no idea, but I'm not surprised!

Commodore Pet 600 I love this design and having it on my desk was beautiful!

Wonderful memories of my youth in the tech stone ages of the 1980s.

I found this video through your 'youtube on pet' video. I think youtube didn't show me this before because it didn't understand that this video was about the 8296. I have a 8096 but in the initial design case. Since this was our first computer we used in our company, I have the CBM 8050 dual floppy drive and the 8032P printer that goes with it as well. I'm still restoring everything. The CBM 8096 devices normally come with the commodore 64K expansion board which is mounted on the pet board however mine has the Z-RAM from Madison Computer which adds 64K of RAM and a Z80 coprocessor to allow the PET to run the CP/M operating system. The Z-Ram board is mounted upside down under the opening part of tha case. I don't have additional keys other than numbers on the side just like yours in the traditional case as well.

@Mr_ToR

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wow clicky keys, that's really nice.

thanks for the detailed video, information about the "curvy" PETs is very scarce.

@fulkonto1222

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You are welcome!

The 8032-SK has GPIB connectors in the back.

What was so cool 😎

That's a nice font...

I guess at 1:25 you missed the big "Commodore 8296" on the badge on the back; I spent much of the time after that until 8:44 yelling at the screen. :-) 17:05 So Block Select 1 switches between blocks 2 and 4, and Block Select 2 switches between blocks 1 and 3? The naming of one of these things could be slightly improved, perhaps. Overall, nice video! The one thing I would suggest is that, given how little known this system is and how none of checking Wikipedia, other popular PET sites and search engines doesn't turn up what a "PET 600" is, it would be a good idea to put a note at the start of the description of every video you do about this to mention that the PET 600 is a PET 8296 and even perhaps linking back to this video. (Not understanding that the PET 600 is a PET 8296 caused me a lot of confusion in your "KZread on PET" video.)

8:33 lmao

I worked for a commodore dealer in the 1980s. When Commodore delivered our demo 8296 Iwas VERY disappointed in the speed and performance of the 'new' machine. I was hoping for a FAR faster 6502 and a better BASIC. Very disappointing. The Commodore 700/710/720 was a little better, but too little too late.

i dont even know what computers is lol