Re: Non-working Commodore PET 3016
Quite pricey for the time, some of those. I remember thinking it was a black day when, after years of Spectrum titles costing about £5, Ultimate-Play The Game suddenly decided they could get away with charging £9.99. And that was several years later.
I notice you said you'd paid £25 for the PET originally, although you had to drive quite a long way to pick it up. I wonder if you've dared to add up the real cost of the repair? I suppose it's not too bad if you look on it as a kind of open-university course in computer repair with a working computer thrown in at the end.
Plus you now own a few useful tools, such as your scope, which is such a universally handy thing to have that it doesn't really count as part of the cost of the PET project.
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