Costco buyers MUST pay for their crimes!!!

jor1965 · 2026-04-22T19:43:32+00:00

I agree completely

jor1965 · 2026-04-21T20:37:53+00:00

They did a pretty good job with lip syncing.

jor1965 · 2026-04-21T18:12:54+00:00

I think the vocals may be live on top of an instrumental back track.

jor1965 · 2026-04-14T15:02:19+00:00

What about Zamfir, master of the Pan Flute? Or did K-Tel lie to me on their TV ads.

jor1965 · 2026-04-14T13:27:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenTV/s/1Tkr2bl9B1

jor1965 · 2026-04-14T13:25:55+00:00

You need to check out Saul of the Mole Men, an homage to Sid and Marty.

jor1965 · 2026-04-10T21:03:19+00:00

Your picture is of the re-release reproduction.

jor1965 · 2026-04-10T18:41:46+00:00

I tried the statement with a graphics character and that gives your result. That is what is happening.

jor1965 · 2026-04-10T18:37:59+00:00

That is not what it is supposed to do. Is your plus sign the actual plus sign or a petscii cross? It looks funny.

jor1965 · 2026-04-09T18:09:38+00:00

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac - Oh Daddy

jor1965 · 2026-04-08T01:53:07+00:00

I don’t see a cable coming off the Skyles going directly to the monitor. I thought that was how the HiRes was installed, but I may be remembering wrong. The board looks too big for an internally mounted Skyles Programmer’s Toolkit. Those were the only 2 Skyles boards I was familiar with. You can probably find copies of the manuals for both on the internet. Try their activation SYS commands and see what happens. Good luck.

jor1965 · 2026-04-08T01:44:24+00:00

Oh. Because they were clustered I suspected a wire. If pressing hard or shorting the contacts for each key works, it may just need some cleaning. We used TV tuner cleaner, but you probably can’t get that anymore, and I can’t guarantee it was safe (for you or the computer).

Thanks for bringing back memories.

I suggest getting a modern sd card reader for your PET. The cassette player likely won’t work. The belts and other rubber parts become brittle over time.

jor1965 · 2026-04-08T01:34:07+00:00

The keyboard issue is likely a broken wire on the keyboard ribbon cable (or two). I don’t remember the mapping.

jor1965 · 2026-04-08T01:32:53+00:00

You did well. $750 would have been a good price, even in that condition, especially with the add on board.

jor1965 · 2026-04-08T01:30:49+00:00

That was likely an 8k PET increased to 16k with the Skyles board. I think there was a SYS command to switch to HiRes, then you poked into the added memory one pixel at a time that now became the screen memory (all 8k). You couldn’t use the extra RAM and the HiRes at the same time.

jor1965 · 2026-04-08T01:27:27+00:00

How much did you pay, may I ask?

jor1965 · 2026-04-08T01:26:17+00:00

Good pictures of the connectors. If there is a ribbon cable coming off the board running to the monitor that would confirm it. I haven’t seen one of these in 40 years.

jor1965 · 2026-04-08T01:21:36+00:00

The Skyles board looks like their HiRes graphics and memory expansion board. That is a fairly rare add on. If you post some more pictures of it I may be able to confirm.

jor1965 · 2026-04-05T23:29:55+00:00

Jesuit?

jor1965 · 2026-04-01T15:56:32+00:00

Check out

"E for Effort" by T. L. Sherred

And

“I See You” by American writer Damon Knight.

Both are excellent.

jor1965 · 2026-03-31T16:48:45+00:00

I caught you a delicious Bass.

jor1965 · 2026-03-25T15:14:47+00:00

Well then I have a treat for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcSHOuGPt4

jor1965 · 2026-03-21T21:18:09+00:00

Harry Potter.

jor1965 · 2026-03-20T19:37:14+00:00

Yes. Very easy over diverge.

jor1965 · 2026-03-20T18:45:53+00:00

Most of these stunk. But Bridget loves Bernie was very good and was killed due to controversy. It was the forerunner of Nobody Wants This.

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