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by gerrybrophy
Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:54 pm
Forum: PCjr Hardware
Topic: IBM PCjr External 3.5 Inch Disk Drive not working
Replies: 1
Views: 2377

IBM PCjr External 3.5 Inch Disk Drive not working

I was wondering if anyone coudl figure out how to get the 3.5 inch drive to work. The conrtoller board was definatly modified already , although what technique I cannot say but many non original wires have been soldered. The data cable is split to the 5.25inch drive then continues with a separate po...
by gerrybrophy
Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:46 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello from canada
Replies: 4
Views: 6471

Re: Hello from canada

Liesure suit larry is well worth your time. Space quest is excellent and kinda similar humour, sq2 & sq3 also. finished all those games, well worth replaying I apparently have kings quest 16 colour version on (9) 3.5 " disks. I havn't tried it yet on the pcjr. I did tey it in vga years ago....
by gerrybrophy
Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:28 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello from canada
Replies: 4
Views: 6471

Re: Hello from canada

No I wasn't sure if it was dead. So I did try the g at the dos prompt. It kinda booted then crashed everytime with a half color paint & garbage screen. Then it occured to me that I was using dos 3.3 to boot and not the dos 2.1 that came with it. Tried it again this morning... and it works. Excel...
by gerrybrophy
Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:36 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello from canada
Replies: 4
Views: 6471

Hello from canada

Hi, I'm Gerry Brophy I just picked up a pcjr system the first week of jan 2013. Wanted one for a while, say... 30 years. So I got one now. It came with a good setup, the color monitor 2 joysticks microsoft booster that has been modded for 512k so I have 640k total mouse parrallel port sidecard power...