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Tony Sidaway produced this 1/2-scale copy of an image in an official Commodore brochure at the Commodore Canada website, http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/brochures/pet_2001/commodore_pet_2001.htm,

The original URL of the image is: http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/brochures/pet_2001/pet_2001_keyboard.jpg .

This image is copyright Commodore Business Machines, 1977, being a direct derivative of the image at the URL cited.

Fair use rationale for use of this non-free image in Commodore PET

This image documents an important feature of a historically important home computer which is no longer on sale in any form and can normally only be seen, if at all, only in a few museums and in the collections of specialists, and thus irreplaceable.

The design of the keyboard was considered a key selling point by Commodore, and the presence of graphics characters accessible through a shift key made it popular for producing computer games in the built-in Basic language--of which many early hobbyist examples were published as "type-in" listings, and later as magazine cover-mounted cassettes, in the computer magazines of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The design and shortcomings of the PET 2001 keyboard are discussed in some depth in the article.

The uploaded image is of lower resolution and inferior quality while still illustrating the subject adequately.

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