It was given to me......by the Centre for Modern Languages at work. I guess they'd bought a 486 by then (this was 2004). I've got dozens of tapes with hundreds of bytes of language tutorial programs written in BASIC. This old PET is a bit faulty though, there's some corrosion on the logic board, and I think some of the massive 8KB of RAM may be faulty.
At the same time I scrounged a BBC B+ (64KB version) and a double-decker 5.25' floppy drive. I've had them for four years and I don't think I've even switched it on. I don't even know if it has a DFS or ADFS ROM installed, although it's likely given that the two were together.
/Retro blog
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At the same time I scrounged a BBC B+ (64KB version) and a double-decker 5.25' floppy drive. I've had them for four years and I don't think I've even switched it on. I don't even know if it has a DFS or ADFS ROM installed, although it's likely given that the two were together.
/Retro blog