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by pinesbrook
Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:04 am
Forum: PCjr Hardware
Topic: Hooking up PCjr floppy drive to Windows XP machine
Replies: 10
Views: 4184

Re: Hooking up PCjr floppy drive to Windows XP machine

Thanks Trixter, I will try that.
by pinesbrook
Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:20 am
Forum: PCjr Hardware
Topic: Hooking up PCjr floppy drive to Windows XP machine
Replies: 10
Views: 4184

Re: Hooking up PCjr floppy drive to Windows XP machine

Unfortunately it seems my amateur meddling inside the PCjr may have caused an issue that wasn't there before. Now, my monitor (the standard PCjr one) only shows a scrolling scrambled image on booting up. It's far worse/beyond the control of the vertical/horizontal hold dials on the back of the monit...
by pinesbrook
Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:32 am
Forum: PCjr Hardware
Topic: Hooking up PCjr floppy drive to Windows XP machine
Replies: 10
Views: 4184

Re: Hooking up PCjr floppy drive to Windows XP machine

Thanks so much for these helpful replies. I'm in the NYC area, on Long Island but very close to Queens. Hargle, the floppies I'm most interested in have files of endless BASIC programs I wrote when I was a kid, which would not be of great use to you :). But I do have a few other (I imagine, fairly c...
by pinesbrook
Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:44 pm
Forum: PCjr Hardware
Topic: Hooking up PCjr floppy drive to Windows XP machine
Replies: 10
Views: 4184

Hooking up PCjr floppy drive to Windows XP machine

Hello, I'm hoping to find help, and sincere apologies if I've missed this information elsewhere. I am looking to back up all my old PCjr 360k floppies onto a modern machine. I have a running PCjr, pretty stock. I also have a running Windows XP machine, which seems to have a motherboard slot for a fl...