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The Ultimate PCjr!

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 3:24 pm
by alanh
Lots of RAM, I/O, and Bungholio Marks!

https://www.retrotronics.org/images/ultimate_jr.jpg

Re: The Ultimate PCjr!

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:21 pm
by bagelswitch
Assuming one could gather a sufficient number of external power bricks still in working order to service the necessary power sidecars, would such an abomination actually function? The sidecar connectors must produce some voltage drop . . .

Re: The Ultimate PCjr!

Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 5:18 pm
by Brutman
It can't possibly work; it's hard to imagine that there would be any signal integrity left. You'd need "gateway/router" sidecars in between to relay the signals!

Re: The Ultimate PCjr!

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 9:04 pm
by benoitp
The longest PCJr I had reliably working had 4 128kb sidecars, 2 Power Supply sidecars, Parallel and Speech Synthesizer.
It was my main PCjr for a number of years. I don't know if I still have pictures of it somewhere ...