Mike's PCjr Page

I certainly never ran into a PC jr in Australia. I can't find any evidence of them having been marketed there. We bought our PC jx in 1985, and I believe we bought it right when it was available for pre-order by IBM employees. (Ours certainly came with a half-finished BIOS.) One interesting angle of...

As a final note on the keyboard, the jx did have the infrared option. We quickly tired of replacing the rather expensive AAA batteries and dealing with the questionable reception and range, and simply ran in corded operation. All in all, the jx was a capable machine. It felt faster than comparable j...

Software on the jx was not overwhelmingly unusual. Programs compatible with the TANDY 1000 or the PC jr generally were able to use the extra graphics and audio features. We played Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.13 (I believe). Getting a 3.5" copy of the software was difficult. My dad took it to w...

I don't remember a lot from the hardware, but here's what I do remember: - It had two cartridge ports, but we never owned any cartridges. - The graphics options and audio options were the same as the PC jr . - The documentation is littered with references to 48k and 64k options. While our jx had 512...

I'd like to talk a bit about the IBM PC jx . From what I understand, this odd beast was sold in Japan and Australia. The Australian version ran in 100% (American) English. My first computer growing up was a jx . Here's what I remember from it: - We got the computer in 1985. - We upgraded it to 512kB...