Re: earliest commercial game?

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Obsbedia2 (obsbedia2@aol.com) wrote:
: << As I remember, it originally came with a mind-blowing 4K of RAM ! >>

: ...and a built-in cassette player recorder in the keyboard.  I thought it
: looked like the top-of-the-line when it was pictured on the cover of Popular
: Science about twenty years ago.  It was being sold as being a great addition to
: the kitchen.  Just think of the recipes you could save on the computer!

--> I was given a Commodore SuperPET. The disk drive for it is for
    5.25" floppies (I was surprised, I figured it would be for 8")
    and the disk drive is almost as big as the superPET, itself and
    bigger than most 9-pin dot-matrix printers of a decade later.

    AFAICT, it only has 2K. of RAM - so I'm not sure about that 4K.
    observation for the lesser model. Also - there's no `built-in'
    cassette player-recorder in the keyboard that I can see. One
    can tell it was from a classroom full of computers, there's a
    hand-drawn number on one side and there's a switch mod on the
    other side for HEX/BIN - that's a classroom system, fer sure!

    One of these days, I'd like to fire it up and see if it works;
    but I have no connecting cables or even a boot disk; so I'll
    need to track them down. One of these days . . .
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