Mike's PCjr Page

Thanks for the post but unless I am missing something All I see is brand new products on the Texelec website, where are thier vintage items on the page?

I should have given the link to their eBay store, as that’s where they have the vintage stuff. Most of the old computer items are from CR. They don’t have a chiclet keyboard listed, but I don’t think they’ve listed everything they have on hand. If you ask and they don’t have one, at least they’ll think of picking one up on their next CR visit.

Here’s a quick update on the state of things at Computer Reset.

We sold the last of the PCjr kits (described above) on 23 January 2022. Volunteers officially declared them out of stock last summer, but I’ve been able to cobble together a few from parts since then. Each became more time consuming as I had to do ever more cleanup and repairs. I finally got around to piecing together and repairing the last one (no two parts came with each other originally!) in time for LGR’s follow-up visit to CR.

The guy who bought it had all the volunteers, LGR, and The 8-Bit Guy sign it. He’s already posted a video about his trip. I just hope his PCjr and monitor make it back to Sweden intact.



LGR is working on a follow-up video, one of our frequent shoppers says he’s working on a video, and one of the volunteers recently posted an official video on the state of CR:



Since November, CR has switched to a fixed price model: pay $150 at the door and haul away as much as you can within your 2.5 hour time slot. Some people have been taking good advantage and hauling away large loads, but literal tons of stuff remain. The current plan is to end the sales around April, so time is running out. See my original post for information about joining the liquidation Facebook group and signing up to go to the sales.

Here’s my rough estimate of what remains of the PCjr inventory:

Dozens or more:

• used, not-working monitors (generally in good cosmetic condition)
• used and NOS motherboards
• NIB long-board power supplies
• NIB fans
• NOS floppy controllers
• NIB FRU keyboard cords
• NIB internal modems
• NIB adapters for IBM color display
• NIB parallel port sidecars
• NOS FRU revised keyboards (that will need capacitor C4 replaced)
• NIB Comma Cat educational software
• NOS unpopulated PCBs for Integrity clock cartridges
• NOS plastic frames for the rear ports

Beginning to run out (two dozen or fewer remain AFAIK):

• used and NOS power bricks
• used, non-functional 128 KB memory sidecars
• used cluster attachments
• used power expansion sidecars
• NOS Integrity cartridge shells (no ROM PCBs remain)
• used diskette drives (that need to be refurbished/repaired)
• used and NOS Hands-on BASIC books

Sold out at the moment, AFAIK:

• system units
• joysticks
• chiclet keyboards
• Tecmar Jr Captain sidecars
• Racore/Quadram Drive 2 units
• NIB monitors
• NIB diskette drive kits
• NIB power expansion sidecars
• connectors for TV
• adapter cables for cassette
• speech attachments
• NIB cluster attachments
• guides to operation
• NIB Rocky’s Boots and other educational titles
• functional 128 KB memory sidecars
• 64 KB cards
• technical reference manuals
• hardware maintenance and service manuals
• PC-DOS 2.1
• Cartridge BASIC
• ColorPaint
• King’s Quest for PCjr
• Lotus 123 for PCjr (w/cartridges)
• Zyll
• cartridge games
• Electric Desk for PCjr
• Andrew Tobias’ Managing Your Money (with cartridge)
• other third-party, rare, or exotic PCjr items

Resellers have been gathering up a lot of PCjr accessories. Some of their stock is already listed on eBay, and more is sure to follow.