My Commodore VC-20 now has a PET-style keyboard

My late grandad Jim had a Commodore PET, which he delighted in showing me around when we’d come back to Australia to visit relatives in the 1990s. I’d consider the PET another of my grail retrocomputers, but I also acknowledge I’ll never have the space for such a large machine… even assuming I could afford one in working condition thesedays. But I’m a step closer to the real thing now, thanks to this machine! This is my beloved PAL VC-20, the uncommon version of the Commodore VIC-20 released in Germany. It came to me in a sorry state from a seller in the UK, but I was able to get it working again with some TLC, light soldering, and a replacement keyboard from an “Aldi” Commodore 64. I originally thought the beige keys against the egg-white case of the VC-20 would look a bit weird, but it grew on me the more I used it. Keen-eyed Commodore fans may have noticed I put the original VIC-20 orange function keys on there as well. But this was only meant to be temporary, because I eventually…