Pets

1. [philipb]

   We had 1 in a school of over 1,200. Only the advanced math students were allowed to touch it so the likely hood of me getting a go were nil or less.

2. [Halloween Jack]

   It looks like that computer that the Enterprise crew brought down with them to the planet that looked exactly like Earth, but without clouds, and all the grownups got the blue-green herpes and the kids were all bonk-bonk on the head, bonk-bonk, bonk-bonk!

3. [Kevin Arthur]

   Is that a real book or a Photoshop job? If it’s a book I want it. (Google was no help finding it.)

4. [O_M]

   …We had a guy locally who would take PETs and upgrade them to C-64s. Required quite a bit of case modding, but at least you had a computer that *looked* like what we expected a computer to look like.

5. [CraziestGadgetsdotcom]

   i remember these from elementary school. the school only had 1. later on we got a bunch of apple 2′s and played oregon trail. but early on, this was it. 1 computer, 500 kids. didn’t realize commodore made it.

6. [dargaud]

   The first computer I ever used (besides TI programmable calculators) ! Was pretty popular in France because its name means ‘fart’.