Commodore PET caught running Windows Phone 7 Series?
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted February 16th 2010 2:54PM
posted February 16th 2010 2:54PM
We're not sure what to think of this one, but it would be remiss of us not to pass it along to you. On one hand, pics like this can be faked pretty easily these days. Yet again, the tipster seemed pretty convincing: he used the term "datassette" like he knew what he was talking about. We'll let you be the judge, OK?
Update: We have received one further image, which seems a little more... plausible? Not really -- but you can scope it after the break nonetheless. Thanks, Lincoln!
Update: We have received one further image, which seems a little more... plausible? Not really -- but you can scope it after the break nonetheless. Thanks, Lincoln!
no.
@xKNGx
yes, IF it can multitask.
@xKNGx
Yes !!
they've also been seen running windows XP
http://i50.tinypic.com/nmgc1w.jpg
@xKNGx
Looks photoshopped.
@goff Better yet, can it do multitouch!
@xKNGx
I'll take two of 'em.
Fake... Nice feathering on the screen image!
@Puggs
How could this not be a fake - the original 1st revision PET was a GREEN screen monitor... How could a self respecting TECH blog not take this simple fact into account... apparently Engadget's FUD radar must be offline.
@Puggs I really, REALLY hope this post is just a joke. Here's the original picture, for the record.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET
Yes, that's right. This picture is a crappy shop of the main picture on the Wikipedia page for the Commodore PET.
Jokes. You do not get them.
@D W on the model shown, the screens were actually b&w. until now, apparently.
Only a photoshop master could perform such trickery, it must be true!
@jamiepgs
Hardly mastery. Mediocre at best
@newone
You know, it's funny enough when someone can't get the joke, but it's just too damn funny when someone can't get the joke of someone who does get the joke.
@tonicboy hahaha man, thanks for that, you just put words for what i tought.
@jamiepgs Agreed. But then, what happened to that arrow that was there on the top of the screen!? Screen resolution problems!?
Photoshop job = FAIL
@trainwrecka
no sense of humor = FAIL
@tonicboy
wouldn't it be "sense of humor = FAIL"?
I can tell from the pix... eh, nevermind.
It's real. I have it running on a PET emulator on my Amiga
@Ritchey
Ahh... Amiga... i'd love to go back to those days... how I adored that comp..
even a blind man could tell that's fake..
@mainvoid
"Red one!"
"How do you do that?!?"
"Ha!"
Porting WM7 wasn't the hard part - stuffing a color monitor into the PET was.
@eboltz LOL yea, dogs can only see black and white.
@eboltz
porting WM7 would be extremely hard because that has never been invented yet
now porting WP7S wouldn't be a problem
if your gonna try to crack a joke.at least know what you talking about;)
AHA THIS IS PROOF THAT MICROSLOTH CANNOT INNOVATE.
/s
OMG It's the troof... I saw it on the internets!
Uh, I distinctly see a memory card slot st lower-left.
I CALL PHEOTO-SHOOOOP!
So this thing had Tom Tom GPS too?
It's FAKE with a capital F.
http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/tomtom-logo.jpg
It is also badly shopped, I mean look at the inner shadow.
@Eternity: Yes fake, but the WP7S screen shot is from an HD2 caught in the wild running the new OS and the WM6 TomTom..
http://www.winmo.nl/windows-phone-7-series-draait-op-de-htc-hd2/
(in Dutch).
@Alan Strangis
I know that, but I'm having a hard time figuring out why I was down ranked... I called it out a fake too...
@Eternity
Because it was a (good) joke? Didn't have our morning cup of joe, have we now?
@Alan Strangis That's actually fake too. :)
Obviously a GUTTED out PET
with x86 hardware running some emulator.
or, just call it a day by doing a piss-poor photoshop job ...
um.....this is a joke right?
No, it is serial.
Good one, Joseph.
Pfsha, and you guys thought they threw backwards compatibility into the wind.
Is it April 1st already?
@DTJ: I WAS ABOUT TO TYPE THAT
@psycros BUT YOU WERE TOO BUSY LOOKING FOR THE BUTTON THAT MADE YOUR LETTERS ALL CAPS.
@ThreeDee912:
YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER
The screen wouldn't even display those colours.. nevermind anything else
Some people have wayyyyy too much time on their hands. Even if they faked it.
Obviously this is a joke.
That screen chop is just from an HD2 running Windows Phone 7
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/02/16/windows-phone-7-series-can-run-on-the-htc-hd2-htc-hd2-windows-mobile-7-upgrade-unofficially-confirmed/
@falcon2011 That HD2 pic is a terrible fake that we keep getting tipped on -- that's the joke!
@Nilay Patel
Thank you for the clarification. I had absolutely no idea why this was on the site. If it were April 1st I could understand, but since we're not there yet I needed a bit of help. Thanks.
@Nilay Patel : Ah, I get it now. That's freakin' hilarious!