The FPGA version of the computer sports a 640×400 resolution which is twice that of the original, so [Thomas] simply doubled the size of each of the PET’s pixels to fill in the extra space.

The personal computer industry began in 1977 ... Known as the "1977 Trinity," the Apple II, Radio Shack TRS-80 and Commodore PET each used a different processor and OS. Walking by store windows ...

Here at the Vintage Computer Festival, we’ve found oodles of odds and ends from the past. Some, however, have gotten a modern twist like [bitfixer’s] recent Commodore PET project upgrades.

The 1979 Atari 800 might have arrived a bit after the first personal computers, but its cutting-edge processor offered better graphics and sound than both the Apple II and Commodore PET.

that year marked a revolution personal computers with the arrival of three landmark machines: the Apple II, Commodore PET and Tandy TRS-80, which were offered pre-assembled with a monitor and ...