Mike's PCjr Page

Hello All, Speech Attachment: Lucky find in an eBay auction for a listed lot including "PC Jr Power Expansion Unit, Parallel Attachment, Keyboards x2". Noticed in the auction a single picture of a sidecar with the headphone jack and was ecstatic. First time I'm seeing an entirely plastic s...

Hello Brutman and thanks for the response. > there were serial variants too. Mine is missing pins 1 and 7 which appears to match what I'm seeing with the 9 pin variant of InPort. I bought this long ago for cheap not realizing how difficult it would be to find the sidecar. Thanks for the info regardi...

Hello All, Did search before asking and didn't run across... Looking to see if there is a way to have more than one serial port. I'd like to be able to keep a mouse connected vs switching peripherals around. Of course if anyone happened to have a mouse sidecar they'd be willing to part with, that wo...

Hello all,
Apologies for responding in an old thread, but it seemed the best place for this.
Is there a download location available of the DOS 5.0 image for use with the jrIDE that I could then dd to a CF Card?

Regards,

Hello all and Thanks for the replies. > KenG Ah. Okay. Admittedly I didn't try to install DOS 5.0 on the PCjr itself. Time to figure out how to get DOS 5.0 on floppies. > Hargle I thought so to, yet was getting this on the same CF that DOS 3.2 successfully booted on. So the only change here was DOS ...

Hello all, I feel I'm missing something when attempting to patch DOS 5.0 for use with the jrIDE. I'm able to install DOS 3.2 onto a CF Card within VirtualBox (VB) and able get it to successfully run on the PCjr. I'm able to install DOS 5.0 onto the same CF Card (verifying the card isn't the problem)...