Mike's PCjr Page

I guess I only know of this.


I have picked up a few Jrs and XTs but have no desire to ever go back to the crts I threw out back in the early 2000..

alanh wrote:I ordered parts this weekend. I'll send out an email to the waiting list next weekend when I get them built-up.

I would like one but I'm afraid I have over spent my budget on pcjr, don't know if I can justify more.

I upgraded an IBM addon by upgrading the chips, they were soldered in and it took about three hours... No reason to rush, and make sure you have the right tools, good side cutters to rmove the original chips with out damaging the PCBoard.... If you decide to give it a go, let me know and I can offe...

I will need to try the 5volt hack, I got a jrCaptain with 1 of my PCjrs so of course I need to make it work. I was going to replace the 64k chips with 256k chips in mine but to my surprise when I opened it someone else already had. Still find it funny the jrCaptain manual tells you to use the cadet ...

I just got myself on to the forums and thought I would introduce myself. My 1st computer I had was a PCjr that my dad had bought and upgraded with a Racore addon adding the 2nd drive and 640k of ram. I have fond memories of that computer and recently came into possession of a basic 128k PCjr, well t...