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On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:06:32 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    PETs were a little before the C64. I used them a little. Not bad
>    units at all. If my place wasn't full of old junk electronics I'd go
>    looking for one.

The big selling point for Sprague Electric was they used the GPIB for 
peripherals and could be used to collect data from HP instrumentation. A 
HP computer was about 5 times more expensive.