General Information

Serial #

SP000931

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

SYNTHETIC CASING & PARTS/ METAL CHASSIS & PARTS/ RUBBER FEET

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

49.0 cm

Width

43.8 cm

Height

42.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Computing Technology

Category

Digital computing devices

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Commodore

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1981+

Canada

AMERICAN MADE EQUIPMENT USED BY A SMALL CANADIAN COMPUTERSOFTWARE WRITING FIRM OPERATED BY THE GURNEYS. THEY USED THIS MACHINE TO DESIGN COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING PROGRAMMES UNDER CONTRACT TO THE ONTARIO DEPT. OF EDUCATION C. 1985. SUPERPET WAS DESIGNED IN PART BY DON GOWAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT.

Function

A PROGAMMABLE MACHINE THAT ACCEPTS, PROCESSES & DISPLAYS DATA. USED BY AN INDIVIDUAL FOR PERONAL OR BUSINESS PURPOSES. IT CONTAINS A MICROPROCESSOR, & HAS AN INTEGRAL KEYBOARD FOR DATA ENTRY & VIDEO SCREEN FOR OUTPUT. THIS EXAMPLE WAS USED BY A SMALL BUSINESS.

Technical

THE COMMODORE PET, INTRODUCED IN 1977, WAS THE FIRST PC DESIGNED FOR A MASS MARKET (REF.2). THE SUPER PET WAS ITS SUCCESSOR; IT CONTAINED A 16 BIT 1609 MICROPROCESSOR & USED 360 K FLOPPY DISKS. IT COMPETED DIRECTLY WITH THE ALTAIR. IT WAS THE FIRST COMPUTER TO PUT EDITOR & LANGUAGE TOGETHER BUT WAS MADE OBSOLETE IMMEDIATELY BY THE IBM PC (GURNEY).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

DECAL ON CPU BACK WITH MFR'S LOGO & READING 'Commodore/ MODEL NO./ 9000/ 117V 1.0A 60Hz/ SERIAL NO. SP000931/ MADE IN U.S.A.'/ WHITE LETTERING ON BLACK SYNTHETIC STRIP ON FRONT WITH MFR'S LOGO & READING 'commodore SuperPET Computer/ SP9000'/ WHITE LETTERING ON KEYS

Missing

N/A

Finish

TEXTURED BEIGE SYNTHETIC CASING/ TEXTURED BLACK SYNTHETIC PANEL ENCASING SCREEN/ BLACK ENAMEL PAINTED CHASSIS/ CHARCOAL KEYS/ BLACK FEET

Decoration

N/A