My New PET! and I shall Call her GlaDOS!

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Well, it has been a busy week here at the lounge. After a few e-mails, phone calls and such, priorities have changed a bit. Last week, I was all set for a small shopping spree at Amigakit, and then I found out they were sold out of the IDE 97 board for the Amiga 1200. I got busy trying to get all the A4000 stuff together and ship it out, and as it turns out I had to ship it in 2 boxes- there was just that much stuff with all the books and such. After shipping, no profit was actually made over what I paid for it, but thats the breaks. I did increase most of my prices on the on-line store to compensate for the jump in Canada Post shipping Rates.
I was then trying to decide to get a Subway USB port for the 1200 instead (to hook up an external CD-Rom Drive) when I got an e-mail about my Kijiji Ad.
A local guy named Mike had a PET 8032 and a CBM 8050 Double Drive he wanted to give to a good home. He even dropped them off on Monday. He also had a Commodore 1701 monitor.

It had been about 20 years since I last played with a PET, so I opened her up and did a fast clean of the dust. She boots fine, but some of the keys are not working, so I will have to take apart the keyboard (and we all know how much I LOVE to do that). It seems my chore in life is to take apart and clean keyboards. The cable for the disk drive was missing, so I had to track one down. The Toronto Pet User Group has them listed on the "Items for sale" page, but so far I have not heard back from them. I even wonder if anyone is still around to check the e-mail there anymore. It would be fantastic to get this old system up and running fully.
When I opened it up, I found a ROM in the spare ROM slots labelled "WP-4" The guys on the forums suggest that this is a Word Pro 4 ROM, and I need it to run the Word Pro software. Yes, like the C128, the PET had between 2 and 4 extra ROM slots depending on the Model.
This Model (if you are wondering) is the 8032, which simply means it was a later 80 column model with 32 K of RAM, which also means it has a bigger screen than the original 40 column models. With more Ram and more screen room, it was a "Higher up Model". It also has the "Business" Keyboard with NO PETSCI symbols on it. I still want to get a Super Pet though, they had a 6502 processor and a 6809. Better pictures and internals to come later. Oh, how I forgot how I loved the boot sound on these things.