Ah - apologies. I took a known working plunger and used that to test every single key on the PCB. Not all the plungers work however.
Here's an incomplete list of PETs in films
http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=39
http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=178
https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-g...-in-tv-movies/
The IBM PC was released in 1981, so there was a bit of cross-over by 1984. I can remember installing the 50th IBM PC at (what was) Norwich Union - that was an event at that time.
Colin.
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I take it some of the keys are a bit 'dead', but do work if you press them harder?
Anyway, a good bit of troubleshoooting all round there, well done.
That postcode is an excellent signpost to the history of the machine, maybe someone who remembers having used it will eventually surface?
I happened to see Wonder Woman 2 (Wonder Woman 1984) the other night and there was a brief glimpse of a PET, didn't get which model, on an office desk - would they still have been in mainstream office use by then? I suppose the PC was still a little way into the future. |