The Best First Pet for a Kid? A Commodore PET!

Posted on March 1, 2012 by The Retroist

Today’s Photo of the Day was posted by Alice Tiara and shows who I think is a young child (maybe Alice?) playing on the greatest gift a young kid could get in the 1970s and 1980s, a Commodore PET. Since this is how many kids from that generation were introduced to computers, this should be have been the photo they used in the ad for the PET.

Retro Justin says:

March 1, 2012 at 7:05 pm

One word: jealous

Oh man, that was like the future there. The funky Pet was wacky looking.
Dar says:

March 2, 2012 at 1:06 pm

She (?) can rightfully claim to have been there when the home computer first came.

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