I Built Commodores First Proper Home Computer for Charity 

Nicely done. Pleased you liked my kit.

That is a lovely looking piece of kit mate & a great video. Glad to have been of assistance with the keyboard ☺

Really neat looking machine, and great to have Commodores entry into the first 70s home micros. That version of Millipede looks really decent for text mode, I'm impressed with what it can do. Love the bleeps when it starts too. Well done bench lee (and Fuzzy Lee!), have a cuppa!

Great work Bench Lee and Host Lee! Ouch may need some aloe for the bench! :D

The 8-Bit Guy had a video where he modded a C64 case to fit the PET board and together with TexElec he made a replacement keyboard which uses Cherry switches. So there is a way to make a PET in the same form factor as the C64c. Not sure if there is enough time to prepare that for this auction but it is an option for those interested.

The advantage of the tiny holes is that it may matter less if you miss soldering a pin. But Mr Benchley doesnt make mistakes like that anymore. Also I think he probably has a point about the turned pin sockets for none turned pin components.

Its a really nice kit. I have looked at it a few times. I just dont have the space for an original PET

The version I have is slightly different: it's a single pcb with the keyboard built in. And that one has an extra column of keys with those keycaps you didn't use. Some of those are options that have probably moved to the dip switches, and the Reset/NMI buttons you have separately. The advantage of yours is that it can also be used as a direct drop in replacement for an original PET PCB, in the big steel chassis. But either way around, I think it's a brilliant little machine. 👍

You must’ve got the abridged manual. Maybe last of stock and missing the ring bound manual - it was very detailed.

Grate work Lee!

Awesome video lee! 👌. Hell! I'd pay money to your charity just to hear you say miniature donkey's 🐴 🤣🤣🤣

Maybe if it had the full 64K 65536 Bytes of RAM then maybe invaders would have loaded.

im old.. but was too young to know about PETs, i kinda find it hard to actualy assosiate amigas with other commodore computers. nice build though interesting to see these new or reproduction builds of old computers.

IS that a two colour silkscreen? Who does that? (heads off to PCBWAY and JLC)

How many Commodores are there?

Looks like a fun and easy build! PS I love the translucent donkey with purple PCB's inside ;).

I'm enjoying Bench Lee. He gets it in the neck there early doors, but he's done a decent job all in. Cracking work, Bench Lee!

-Thanks a lot. I like the look of this video. Nice lighting, and sharp images. Also very cool that the mini pet is working :)

Nice. I'm in the process of making a c64 and plan on using a minidisc player to load my programs.

Such a nice kit! Looks like a joy to build. and great video as well (as always :) )

The PET 2001 has been the computer that I made my first steps in BASIC and assembly language with.

The IC sockets provided in that kit are entirely wrong. Those IC sockets are meant for wire wrap projects.

Anybody smell pork ?

Excellent work 👍👌