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Okay... so I've got this combination working now, albeit slowly. I changed the ASPIPPM1.SYS line to use SPEED=1 and FILE=NIBBLE.ILM and now it's working with the ASPIDISK.SYS driver... the zip disk shows up as drive C:. I'll have to tinker with it a bit more to see if I can get byte access to work, ...

And by compatible... I mean once you do the Tandy mod. I've done the mod but it still doesn't look right. Tetris does, but not Bubble Bobble.

Mine wasn't socketed when I checked it. Nevertheless I put a socket in and it's running a V20.

jmetal88 wrote:I don't think I ever got it working with just the SYS files. I always had to run GUEST.EXE. Now I have my jrIDE, though, so I haven't actually used my ZIP drive in a long time.

Did you just run guest, or did you have to load the aspippm1.sys driver as well?

I know this is an old thread, but I'm attempting to get this working on my own system. I've used the palmzip demo driver successfully on my own system which has an NEC V20 and the standard parallel port sidecar that I've done the bidirectional mod on. After reading this thread I tried to get the ASP...

I personally use a CGA/Composite combination monitor. It's nice if you can swing one of those, since some older DOS games will output 16 colors on composite using the color artifact trick, otherwise it will appear as black and white on the CGA output. 7 Cities of Gold springs to mind. I do have a PC...

There's a lot of 5 sidecars on eBay right now that includes a jrCadet, jrCaptain, and a Speech Module on eBay right now:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Vtg-IBM-PCjr- ... 5d56014235

Well, I did the guts transplant on my keyboards last night and it was successful. Thanks for the tip, jmetal!

You can take the PCB out of your working 'pro' keyboard and put it inside the 'chiclet' keyboard. I did that, but in reverse since I prefer the full-sized key caps. After seeing posts like this, though, it's making me wonder if I should swap them back and try getting used to the 'chiclet' keyboard ...

Thanks for the pdf... I didn't have that one yet. Yeah, I think in retrospect that IBM's biggest mistake with the original keyboard was not putting the key labels on the keycaps themselves. I think if they had done that people might have been more receptive to it. As it is, if you're not an expert t...