Mike's PCjr Page

Hi Guys, So I grabbed the DOS 5 patch from Mikes website and after some playing around I managed to get a 360k disk patched and the system boots to the prompt, but there are some weird issues going on here: 1. The Keyboard won't work. When I hit any key all I get is a beep, no characters at all. The...

If we're thinking about ISA, how about one of these as an enclosure? http://www.arstech.com/cat-Enclosures-enclosures.html I'm not sure it's an exact fit for what we want, but something could be done with these. I have worked with one of those before. A USB to ISA thing. The case looks good, but al...

I am going to chime in here a bit late in the game and I read through the first 5 or 6 pages here so I may be a bit out of date. I think that a sidecar would be a good idea. One that has IDE and RAM in it at the minimum. Ethernet would probably be next in the list (as others have said). I would have...

Hi there everyone!

I got my hands on 2 PCjr systems with some interesting add-ons and I am having some fun playing with them.

Anyways, hopefully I can learn some more stuff from you guys and I try to tweak these machine.

Cheers for now

~Jarrod

Thanks, Mike. I did a search, and the only thing I found was a vague reference to eliminiating the power supply by jumpering the 5 VDC on the sidecar. Let me know if anything else turns up (I also found the Tecmar PDF, it says 5 V, but gives no other adapter spec's). Thanks again, John Did you work...