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Yes, people talked and joked about it. I had a couple of friends with PET's and they would not let you near them if you joked about it. I doubt it impacted sal
by ianmcgowan 2y ago
Yes, people talked and joked about it. I had a couple of friends with PET's and they would not let you near them if you joked about it. I doubt it impacted sales, but it was definitely part of the culture. Most 8-bit machines had some well-known locations that you could poke values to and make them crash in spectacular ways. My ZX-81 sure did ;-)
By the time the Apple IIe, Commodore-64 and IBM PC came out, they were just a lot better and/or cheaper and that's what really killed the PET..
- PaulHoule 2y agoI remember that time that a friend of mine had a BBS that used ZCPR3 http://kc85.info/index.php/magazines-mainmenu/morrow-owners-review-mainmenu-143/113-the-wonderful-world-of-zcpr3.html http://kc85.info/index.php/magazines-mainmenu/morrow-owners-... which would let you drop to the command line in a heavily tricked-out version of CP/M. He told me it was unbreakable and go ahead and try, so I started up BASIC and wrote something like 10 FOR I=0 TO 65535 20 PRINT I 30 POKE I,0 40 NEXT which got to 100 and something before the machine crashed and disconnected. He didn’t think that counted as “breaking” it but he did say he was amused that it reset the real time clock to zero.