Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer
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- andsoitis
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- Nov 7, 2026
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- commodore.ca
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Trending history
Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 8, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 45 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #19 of 30, reached on Nov 8, 12:54 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 12:54 UTC.
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Old man story time. This was the first computer we had in our home, I believe in the summer of 1978 or 1979. Mom was working on her Masters in education (high school mathematics) and also taking Fortran courses on Hofstra’s PDP-11. She took me (~6 years old) to the machine room once, and one of the bearded sysadmins…
The PET lives on in odd ways. I use the PET font, long since hoisted out of the ROMs by several people and via Unscii and Funscii, as the medium weight font for virtual terminals on my own Linux-based, NetBSD, and FreeBSD machines. It pairs up nicely with the BBC Micro graphics font as the bold weight, as the PET…
A friend in high school had one. We wrote little BASIC programs that would randomly roll up NPC's for Dungeons and Dragons—print them out on his small sheet-feed printer.
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Is Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 8, 12:54 UTC, after 1 day of trending.
What is the highest rank Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer reached?
#19 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 8, 12:54 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 8, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (45 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
61 points and 24 comments; submitted by andsoitis on Nov 7, 2026.