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The connector that can't be found has 2 female 'holes' and just pops off once the small bolts are removed, at least that is the way on the printer sidecar. This plugs into the other 'pins' connector that a source of them has been found.This means that a new sidecar could be made by using the 'pins' ...

Waston does his/her thing starting tonight on Jeopardy. See if IBM spent all that money in development
to win on a game show, wisely.

We are glad to have you to figure out all that complex stuff. There are probably alot of other options available in that program that add to the complexity, PM (private message), gallery (for saving pictures), etc. Thanks for your efforts in keeping this forum going. By the way do you you ever hear ...

It took the TXT file OK, but when I selected it I thought it would open in NOTEPAD but it went right to the SAVE/CANCEL screen for downloading it. With JPG files they will open in the JPG viewer so it can be seen without downloading. I don't know what the difference is, but it looks like your "...

Mike, yesterday I tried appending a TXT file and also a ASM file and it said something like "TXT (also ASM) files are not supported on this forum". The only thing it allowed was JPG files and it told me if they were too big (>100K). The TXT file was only like 8-9 K so it wasn't the size it...

Mike, what file extensions are turned on for uploading/appending to this forum?

Matt, that was a good refresher discussion on the why INTERLEAVE is inportant and how it works. I thought YOU were working on USB for your "do-everything-card". Mike B. should be able to help. If he can do all that "networking jazz", USB should be a "walk-in-the-park" f...

Here are some cards and a short description of them that I made for the JR. I have to just copy the description here as it won't let me upload a TXT file. You wanted to know more about the cable I used to extend the I/O channel and what the cards I made, did. The cable is s 'stock' cable (56 pins vs...

Here are some pictures of my 2 system with hardfiles

Hi Matt, The XT diskcard BIOS change was never an official IBM product in development. It was done by Joel on his own time and was made available internally on the PcJr forum. He was an Engineer/Programer that I think worked in the Diagnostic Program area. In those days hundreds of people were devel...