Just Snagged a PCjr - Eastern PA
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 2:57 pm
Hi there!
Just picked up this beauty:
This is the "upgraded" model with the floppy drive and 128k memory. I also have some side cars, one that adds a parallel port and the other is an additional 128k. I am very pleased that it came with a matching PCjr monitor and the "professional" or non-chiclet keyboard. I will probably cobble together a keyboard cable as I don't feel like toying around with the IR and batteries.
It also came with a cool mouse from VisiCorp called the Visi On M2. It is optical (this blows my mind, see separate thread in the PCjr General Discussion section)!!! Has a 25-pin cable and then a ridiculously over-engineered adapter (solid metal parts and whatnot) that lets it connect to the PCjr. I also got a matched set of joysticks and a few of the manuals.
The whole system is in great shape. Found it on Craigslist of all places, never expected that!!! I search local Craigslist like it's my job looking for old computer stuff. This time it paid off in a big way!
I'm a big-time computer nerd and really into the retro stuff. PCjr has been a bit of an obsession of mine since I started reading about the history. Never knew about it when it was new. I was (and am) mostly a Commodore guy, which might explain part of why I never knew this thing existed. The more I studied it, the more I knew I needed to find one.
Happy to be here, big thanks to Mike for posting all kinds of information about this system and hosting this forum!
-Todd
Just picked up this beauty:
This is the "upgraded" model with the floppy drive and 128k memory. I also have some side cars, one that adds a parallel port and the other is an additional 128k. I am very pleased that it came with a matching PCjr monitor and the "professional" or non-chiclet keyboard. I will probably cobble together a keyboard cable as I don't feel like toying around with the IR and batteries.
It also came with a cool mouse from VisiCorp called the Visi On M2. It is optical (this blows my mind, see separate thread in the PCjr General Discussion section)!!! Has a 25-pin cable and then a ridiculously over-engineered adapter (solid metal parts and whatnot) that lets it connect to the PCjr. I also got a matched set of joysticks and a few of the manuals.
The whole system is in great shape. Found it on Craigslist of all places, never expected that!!! I search local Craigslist like it's my job looking for old computer stuff. This time it paid off in a big way!
I'm a big-time computer nerd and really into the retro stuff. PCjr has been a bit of an obsession of mine since I started reading about the history. Never knew about it when it was new. I was (and am) mostly a Commodore guy, which might explain part of why I never knew this thing existed. The more I studied it, the more I knew I needed to find one.
Happy to be here, big thanks to Mike for posting all kinds of information about this system and hosting this forum!
-Todd
