A Merry 8-bit Christmas!

This is a recreation of one of the scenes from the Commodore 64 demo disk, for any Commodore PET.

Download at: https://www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#seasonsgreetings

We had these in school in 7th grade (82-83). I just did run/stop. Shift-clr/home. NEW 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10 LIST Li RUN run/stop. POKE 59468,14 and that is about all I remember.

The demo runs in an emulator in your browser - you can hit RESET and play with the PET =)

See the button "Prg Liberary" for some games and more…

Man I can’t imagine typing on that membrane keyboard. Glad I entered in the apple II/Commodore 64 gen.

No PETs had a membrane keyboard to my knowledge. The original 2001 did have an atrocious calculator-style chiclet keyboard though.

I think an Atari computer of the era had such a keyboard though.

The Atari 400, which was the lower end model. The 800 had a real keyboard.

Not to forget the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81, marketed in the US by Timex. Sinclair at least had the sense to assign each BASIC command to a single keystroke.

Those look more like cash register keyboards than membrane.