Mike's PCjr Page

I'm looking to purchase confirmed/working DOS v2.1 and DOS v3.3 floppy sets. I have several boxes/sets but none seem to read on 3x PCjrs. I'm unsure if the PCjr floppy drive(s) are bad or if I just have lousy media. I have several PC-DOS v2.1 and v3.3 sets but none seem to work. I'm still waiting on...

I wanted to just say hello; although I've been on the board for perhaps 3 months now. I’m grateful to those that have helped me towards building a PCjr (or three). My first "real" computer was a IBM PCjr back in 1983. While I began with a TI 99/4a, I really got involved programming with th...

I can't comment on the Apple II requirement. But running a 5.25 inch floppy under Linux on a machine that old is generally not a problem. You can image and create standard diskettes with this setup. Copy protected diskettes will have read errors, as they should for the copy protection, so those can...

I haven't tried very hard to get floppies working on Linux (it seems to be somewhat difficult these days, although the last I tried was with a USB floppy, so maybe an ISA bus floppy would be better supported), but when you mentioned backing up Apple II floppies, I thought of this: http://www.kryofl...

I'm interested in a 5.25" 360K drive installed in my older AMD 2000XP / Asus A7NX-X system running Linux (Debian) to aid in archiving software for my new-to-me PCjr. A MAJOR plus would be if the 5.25 could also read double-sided Apple IIe/c floppies as well for the same purpose (but I'm pretty ...