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Commodore Teacher's PET

The Teacher's PET was a PET 2001 with its own badge, made for a promotion to American schools around 1979 and 1980: a school that bought two PETs received a third free. The machine inside is the standard PET of the time; the badge and the...

Released

1979-1980

Processor

MOS 6502

Model

Teacher's PET

Status

Discontinued

The story

The Teacher's PET was a PET 2001 with its own badge, made for a promotion to American schools around 1979 and 1980: a school that bought two PETs received a third free. The machine inside is the standard PET of the time; the badge and the offer are what make it collectable. The promotion helped put the PET into classrooms across the United States, where it was many students' first computer.