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Commodore PET 2001


Photographer: Tomislav Medak from Flickr / Editing: Bill Bertram (Pixel8), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Type: All-in-one personal computer

Presentation and Sale Period: Public demonstration and beginning of sales in January 1977

Processor: MOS 6502 (@1 MHz)

Memory: 4 or 8 KB

Storage Media: Datasette (cassette tape reader and writer)

Operating System: Commodore BASIC 1.0 (2.0 on later units; stored on ROM)

Notes: It was Commodore's first personal computer, and represented a commercial success.


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