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Did the PET 2020 Printer Ever Get into Production?
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:31 pm
by administrator
FR: Duncan
I had - and still have - an offical 4-page A4 flyer for the UK 'chicklet' PET, as well as a more detailed 8-page A5 flyer (which also features the PET 2020 printer - I only ever saw one of these, at a Commodore demo; did it ever go into production?)
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:32 pm
by administrator
Hi Duncan;
As far as the 2020 goes, I have never seen one but have several flyers making reference to it. The funny thing is the pictures are show 2 obviously different products! I suspect they were little more than prototype based marketing hype.
http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/brochur ... 001_2a.jpg
http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/brochur ... us2020.jpg
http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/brochur ... t_2001.htm
http://www.commodore.ca/history/company ... ochure.htm
Bo Zimmerman's C= list shows no production information.
http://www.zimmers.net/commie/docs/cbm-products.txt
Has anyone ever seen a PET 2020 printer?
Did the PET 2020 Printer Ever Get into Production?
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:27 am
by minton5
I've seen and played with a 2020 printer; it was friction feed, using a continuous roll of paper - and the friction was insufficient, which meant that after a few inches (let alone pages!) alignment drifted off. It was included in a Commodore UK publicity session in late 1977 or early 1978, and I gathered from the Commodore people that they knew about the feed problem, and a revised version would be released 'real soon now'. As a PET owner, I really wanted a printer - but even I ruled out a 2020! - duncan
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:34 am
by administrator
I wonder then if it is was just a prototype, demo batch of 2020's because C= needed to show a printer to sell PET's. Did you ever see a 2020 in a store for sale?
What did you end up buying instead?
