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@MuseumCommodore Commodore PET 3032

Your childhood computer?

@davepl1968 Congrats, looks like Tower bridge behind you. One of our best in London.

We just celebrated our 31st anniversary! We've been happily married 28 years!

@davepl1968 The Commodore PET But used PDP 11/24(I think) and VAX 11/780 with Intergraph additions at work in 80’s.

Post a picture of the OLDEST computer you have: I'll go first! This is my DEC PDP-11/34 from 1976. It has 256K of RAM. It features two hard disks, 2 MB each, and a removable platter that stores 1 MB. For performance, it scores 240 Dhystones/second in raw integer performance. A 486DX33 scores 25,000 so that gives you a sense of how slow it is! But that was 15 year later, remember. Internally, there's a SCSI controller that allows me to boot from a ZULUScsi drive if needed, but I generally boot from the real drives. They're a bear to keep working. I've got it running 29BSD UNIX and RT-11, depending on where you boot from. It's got BASIC and ADVENTURE and the essentials like vi.

My collection of PET’s

@MuseumCommodore IIRC, I had a C compiler for the 64

We all used BASIC on our Commodore 64, but did you use any of these? LOGO, PASCAL, COMAL, FORTH, or C?

@Mattisamazing33 Ideal for a collie too😀

This is going to be so reliable

@BCTGB Happy to see the postie

We all know Border Collies are so intelligent, but also love to chill! So, here’s a weekend challenge: 🎾 Does your Border Collie love a challenge or snooze, or both? 📸 Post your dog’s best "This Is Me" photos, we’d love to see just how different they all are!

@SadButMadLad @davepl1968 Same here and I still have my paper tape from 1978. This tape loaded the program through a 300 baud acoustic coupler to an ICL computer.

@davepl1968 I actually started in school with punched/marked cards and paper tape.😊

You wouldn't survive 2 weeks where I'm from. When I was in college, we could only connect at 2400 baud, so I'd queue up a set of ZMODEM downloads and they'd run at a rate of about 1 megabyte per hour. Today, my fiber can transfer that same megabyte in 0.0008 seconds. Plus, it was in Saskatchewan, it was 40 below without the rather substantial windchill, the web hadn't been invented yet, and it was uphill both ways to the parking lot.

@DaveWallsworth Off to SFO soon, hoping it will be A380. After visiting USA on TriStar and DC-10 before hoping there will be improvements 😂

Time to let someone else do the flying tonight. Off for a short break and being reacquainted with my old friend The LEFtenant! Can’t wait to see the old boy again. It’s been too long since I’ve flown on an A380. I’m betting after tonight’s flight I’ll be wanting to move back to it. 😄 Had a lovely curry in @GordonRamsay restaurant Plane Food 😄✈️🍛

@ClarksonsFarm1 Inn for all Season, Burford. You can drink 🍻@HawksmoorTweets too🍻

Where’s the best Sunday roast? (Other than the Farmers dog pub) 😋

@MuseumCommodore Photo of me with Jim in background printed on Epsom MX-80, taken early 80’s when he visited IPUG and shows in UK.

The legendary Jim Butterfield unboxing a Commodore 64. Who was Jim Butterfield? Frank James "Jim" Butterfield was a pivotal figure in the early days of personal computing, born on October 27, 1936, in Ponoka, Alberta, Canada, and passing away on June 29, 2007, in Toronto, Ontario. He was particularly renowned for his advocacy of Commodore computers like the PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64. Butterfield's contributions were vast; he was a prolific writer on machine language programming, significantly influencing the capabilities of early microcomputers with his book "Machine Language Programming for the Commodore 64." His writings extended to numerous computer magazines such as COMPUTE!, COMPUTE!'s Gazette, and The Transactor. Beyond writing, Jim's educational impact included producing educational videos (like the one below), which helped demystify computing for the general public. He was also a key figure in community engagement, notably through his involvement with the Toronto PET Users Group, fostering one of the first influential user groups for Commodore enthusiasts. Jim Butterfield is a true Commodore legend!

@mrdoornbos Need to get mine repaired 😟

Thanksgiving day fun: This is the best-looking computer ever created, and I'm so happy to own one. Reply with photos of your favorite of all time

@ExGlosChief @Kesthecollie Worked well for Maisie too.

@Kesthecollie Oh Kes that isn’t good. Meg struggles a bit but her Librela makes a huge difference & helps her for a couple of months at a time 👍🤔

Today’s walkies will be short. As you can see I’m limping badly. This is due to arthritis and I’m already taking meds for it. Perhaps some rest will ease it. I’m 13 ½ so this is kind of thing is to be expected but my mind is still young…

How about this for a Christmas card?

Enjoying some English sparkling wine from @AlburyVineyard at the @RoyalAutomobile

@MuseumCommodore Yes and still do.

Did you own a Commodore PET 2001 computer?

@AlburyVineyard - Have you seen this

@GerryAndersonTV Great show with great theme tune, still watch today as I did in the 70’s😀

UFO was first broadcast in the UK #OTD in 1970!

@MuseumCommodore Of course, still have mine along with my original C64.

Did you use this with your Commodore 64?

@MuseumCommodore Along with punched cards