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by Percussionista
Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:56 am
Forum: PCjr General Discussion
Topic: Last version of DOS to support Jr?
Replies: 4
Views: 3800

Re: Last version of DOS to support Jr?

Aha! Well, I never got beyond floppies. I forget that many folks turned their Jr's into "real" computers. Pretty cool!
by Percussionista
Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:46 am
Forum: PCjr General Discussion
Topic: Last version of DOS to support Jr?
Replies: 4
Views: 3800

Re: Last version of DOS to support Jr?

I was able to run DOS 5 on mine, with 640k no problem, though no real reason to do so ;)
by Percussionista
Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:45 am
Forum: PCjr General Discussion
Topic: GEM or CP/M on a Jr?
Replies: 14
Views: 13332

Re: GEM or CP/M on a Jr?

Back in the day, and that was the '80's, I was able to run GEM back then and if I remember correctly, with that 128k ram disc in the bottom of memory, run the machine at full speed with enough room to run GEM Publisher in the remaining 512k. I did newsletters for the S.F. PCJr Users Group in that co...
by Percussionista
Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:25 am
Forum: PCjr Software
Topic: Old PCJr floppies - toss?
Replies: 3
Views: 3149

Old PCJr floppies - toss?

Hi... We're cleaning up the house too. I still have the tricked-out PCJr boxed up but also a box full of 5.25in floppies from the PCJr era. It's been a long time since I had the Jr out, and at that time every floppy I tried was unreadable. I presume that the floppies themselves can't even be re-used...