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- Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:56 pm
- Forum: Other Items of Interest
- Topic: PC Enterprises jr-ROM Clock
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PC Enterprises jr-ROM Clock
This is a picture of the PC Enterprises jr-ROM Clock module / chip. it was intended to add a clock and calendar to the functionality of the PCJR which it sorely lacked. You need to take out the First ROM chip then unit installs in that socket, closest to the front of the Jr Case. You would plug the ...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:10 pm
- Forum: Other Items of Interest
- Topic: IBM Buttons
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2615
IBM Buttons
These are buttons from my collection, do you have any ? Post them !
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:05 pm
- Forum: Cartridges
- Topic: PC Enterprises Configuration Plus Cart
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PC Enterprises Configuration Plus Cart
This is the PCE Configuration Plus CART. This originally sold for $29.95 Attached is a PCE catalog from the day, and it has many items of interest included PG 48 this cart ! :P Kinda wish we had PCE around today ! OR at least access to the design as open source ! anyone know an ex employee ? :lol: P...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:24 pm
- Forum: Other Items of Interest
- Topic: HOT SHOT II Board 1986
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4140
HOT SHOT II Board 1986
I found this hiding in side one of my purchased ebay item, it had been laying around for a year before I got around to it and it had a nice surprise inside ! Plug in under the disk drive, remove the CPU and plug in the board..... A Very Clean Design ! KUDOS ! Fun Facts- see below HOTSHOT II 640K ( I...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 11:27 am
- Forum: Power Supply
- Topic: PS Adjusting your 5V
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2422
PS Adjusting your 5V
Finding more items I did in the day... Here is a mod to allow you to adjust your 5V power supply on the POWER Card.. CAUTION: this is not usually required but if you do attempt, be sure you are comfortable with your skill level... Again...sorry for the clarity they are a few years old.. :shock: :sho...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:47 am
- Forum: Parallel Side Car
- Topic: Parallel Port LPT2 / LPT3 Modification
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Parallel Port LPT2 / LPT3 Modification
Want to have TWO parallel ports on your JR ? OR THREE ? I did these mods along while back.... So this is the original write up as it appeared back then... I found some original pictures I did, so excuse the quality ! :roll: MODIFICATION TO CHANGE THE STANDARD IBM PCJR LPT1 SIDE CAR TO PORT LPT2 Char...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:25 am
- Forum: Parallel Side Car
- Topic: Parallel Port Side Car items
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15068
Parallel Port Side Car items
Here are some details on the Parallel port side car ! This unit provides a parallel port that the PC JR did not supply on the main unit. This allowed users to interface to the readily available impact printers, such as MicroLine, Okidata and others.. Soon after they were introduced the Jr folks foun...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:12 am
- Forum: Floppy Controller and Drives
- Topic: Floppy Controller board
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3214
Floppy Controller board
The original Floppy controller board supports the 5.25 drive supplied with the standard IBM PC JR. Over the years there have been may very creative folks offering solutions to enhance the JR with more add on drive ability. Look to the Hardware Custom Designs by Users forum for these items. TIDBIT: I...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:50 am
- Forum: Power Supply
- Topic: PCJR Internal PS Items
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2459
PCJR Internal PS Items
Here are a couple picture of the PCJR power supply that was part of the original JR back in the day.. The smaller card was a 33 Watt unit while the later version, a larger board with more power touted a 45 Watt supply. There are a few issues with these today, mostly the electrolytic caps tend to dry...
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:09 am
- Forum: Other Items of Interest
- Topic: Retrobrite Technique
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4728
Re: Retrobrite Technique
I tried the Fabuloso as promised and it did not seem to help the yellowing..... but did clean it :) hahaha I would be VERY interested in the retrobright experiment, Before and After pics would be super... I have never played with C-64, but was always drawn to them, as they seem like a really nice si...
- Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:30 pm
- Forum: DOS
- Topic: DOS 5 Install
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3235
DOS 5 Install
Installing DOS 5.x You will need to PATCH your DOS Boot disk by using the following instructions... You will need to use DEBUG and be familiar with that utility, but it is pretty easy. DOS 5 is a little bigger then using earlier dos versions, I think most folks prefer 3.x etc... I found it works goo...
- Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:28 am
- Forum: Other Items of Interest
- Topic: Retrobrite Technique
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4728
Re: Retrobrite Technique
Fabuloso is a cleaner degreaser, but i found it brings back the plastic back to original color,
I can test it and let you know.
I can test it and let you know.
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 3:13 am
- Forum: Gallery 📸
- Topic: MY working system
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9098
Re: MY working system
Actually it can be found, but usually not new...
I kicked myself I only got two of them $20 each when they were available
Amazon did have some months back
chuck
I kicked myself I only got two of them $20 each when they were available
Amazon did have some months back
chuck
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:30 pm
- Forum: Game Software 🕹️
- Topic: DIGGER
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8288
DIGGER
I have been looking for an old DOS game DIGGER !
It was one of my favorites back in the day, seem to be elusive...
I remember it was a responsive game but cant remember If I played it on my 8088 or 80286...
either way still looking, if anyone has seen it somewhere let me know...
It was one of my favorites back in the day, seem to be elusive...
I remember it was a responsive game but cant remember If I played it on my 8088 or 80286...
either way still looking, if anyone has seen it somewhere let me know...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:34 pm
- Forum: PASCAL
- Topic: Turbo Pascal 7 installed
- Replies: 3
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- Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:40 am
- Forum: Gallery 📸
- Topic: MY working system
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9098
MY working system
This is my work system. I have the 3Flop board, PCSprint, TandyMod, Mouse(driver mouser704) Zip-100(uses Palmzip), PCJR2PS2 keyboard dongle, Joystick (duh) USB HtC drive , Two 5.25 Drives, Two 3.5 Drives. the front buttons are R-reset on the PCSprint board, T-TandyMod enable/disable, S-PCSprint Spee...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:44 am
- Forum: Gallery 📸
- Topic: Pics Color System
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3712
Pics Color System
My Color System still working on this
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:40 am
- Forum: Welcome ✋
- Topic: How to Post / Link pictures
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4611
How to Post / Link pictures
Click the ATTACHMENT TAB or To link a picture, this is the preferred method as it takes less disk space on this system. Select the (picture frame) above when in the Edit mode : NOTE I left off the frames! Then between the img --- /img frames place your link using this format... img https://www.sourc...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 4:33 am
- Forum: PASCAL
- Topic: Turbo Pascal 7 installed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3770
Turbo Pascal 7 installed
Recently installed Turbo Pascal 7, works great with the PCSprint board , the extra speed is to compile is nice. I have noticed that during compile it hits the JRIDE hard drive alot, which surprised me as I thought it would compile in memory' but then I realized I was using include files that had to ...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:59 am
- Forum: Other Items of Interest
- Topic: Retrobrite Technique
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4728
Re: Retrobrite Technique
Fabuloso cleaner :) Boy youd think I own stock in this stuff, but it is great on plastics... I really like the 8-Bit guy, he goes the extra mile to restore for sure,, I certainly dont have his patience for cleaning but admire his tenacity and out of the box cleaning ideas... I have been watching Adr...