Commodore · 1977 and 1979
PET 2001/3008/8032
The business-oriented Commodore PET family.
- Released
- 2001 series: 1977; 3008 series: 1979
- CPU
- 6502 at 1 MHz
- RAM
- 8K, expandable to 32K
- ROM
- 20K — Microsoft BASIC and “TIM” monitor
- Display
- 40×25 black-and-white text
- Monitor
- Integral 9-inch display; 12-inch on the 8000 series
- Storage
- Cassette tape and 5.25-inch floppy disk
- Interfaces
- Parallel and IEEE-488 peripheral bus
The PET series was aimed at business use. The 2001 PET had an integral cassette deck, a reduced-size keyboard and an annoying flicker whenever the screen scrolled.
Most peripherals, including printers and disk drives—which were huge, nearly as big as the PET itself—were daisy-chained to the IEEE-488 bus. Hardware expansions included a high-resolution 320×200 black-and-white graphics board.