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- Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:54 pm
- Forum: PCjr General Discussion
- Topic: My resurrected PCjr
- Replies: 10
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My resurrected PCjr
I've finished a first stage repairing and pimping up my first working PCjr. After replacing the original drive with a 3.5" one (the PCjr is lighter than ever now!) and the 8088 with a NEC V20, here's my setup: http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3749/pcjr01.th.jpg Running a Cartridge BASIC 256 col...
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:50 pm
- Forum: PCjr Hardware
- Topic: XT-IDE on PCjr
- Replies: 615
- Views: 417248
Re: XT-IDE on PCjr
Alright then, PM sent. Thanks!
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:04 am
- Forum: PCjr Hardware
- Topic: XT-IDE on PCjr
- Replies: 615
- Views: 417248
Re: XT-IDE on PCjr
I've been peeking some information of this thread (my excuses, too long to fully read it!
) and I'm not sure if alanh still has jr-IDE kits available. I suposse that mailing him is the way to go, isn't it?.
- Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:35 am
- Forum: PCjr Hardware
- Topic: Replacing the 5.25 drive [story of an unexpected success]
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3066
Re: Replacing the 5.25 drive [story of an unexpected success
It works perfectly with a 3.5" DD drive, but the HD drives sometimes have this problem That's the good part. All of my 3.5 drives are (initially, withoud modding) HD ones and worked fine with the PCjr and both disk controllers. Seems that they're consistently compatible, at least the models I'...
- Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:37 am
- Forum: PCjr Hardware
- Topic: Replacing the 5.25 drive [story of an unexpected success]
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3066
Replacing the 5.25 drive [story of an unexpected success]
As I've already told in my introductory message, I'm still working on getting a fully operational PCjr. After repairing a motherboard and meanwhile I'm looking for a missing power card replacement, the only problem that remained was how to feed the PCjr with disks and check if the drive and controll...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:28 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hi!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5806
Hi!
My name is Jose and I live in Spain. Yep, it's true, you must be wonder, are there PCjr in Spain?, not too much for sure; but as recently I've promoted a PCjr from its non working status I must consider myself a new member of the club :D In fact I own three machines, two PCjr and a JX. All of them h...