IBM PCjr

These are always nice to have the plastics....

Thanks for sharing..... just did a flashback to my Jr screen glowing in the early AM hours....

I think the C64 cassette would work, If memory serves me I used a Radio Shack back in the day...
I think ebay has plenty of NOS cassette decks that will work.

I never saw a Jr Cassette deck...

There are Many books on Jr programs Check Ebay, most any 'basic' type book will work , you may have to tweak the basic program to fit the Jr, but usually not a problem. Also If you really want to experience the 'early Jr' get the Cassette recorder, and cable to save and load your programs, this is a...

the Little jr soon gets all the good upgrades... Kings Quest is a favorite, I am still trying to get thru the game...

Lots of folks will help your journey...

Read Alot of stuff ... there have been som really nice add-ons to the jr

So nice to see a 'STOCK' Jr saved from the dumpster !!!
Especially like that the PCJr monitor is part of the package....

so many great games and software packages yet to be enjoyed...

Great job...

Chuck

Wow, reallyi formative, but not surprizing back then as everyone was rushing designes to the market..
thanks
chuck

Nicely done....... Is there an issue with noise, maybe let us know what the issue is! I have not heard of this, but it is not hard to believe the boards are noisy.... did it cause issues or gremlins that have been documented by the users ? even tho the Jr case does have a inside coating to capture t...

Yes the good old Cassette recorder........ I think the radio shack recorder was a favorite back then.. TIDBIT: I read and article, back in the day long ago.... they talked about how the design to save 1's and 0's was (if memory serves me ) was 1200hz and 2400hz.... the gripe was that while the syste...

Hi Chuck, At some point I will probably upgrade my Quadram with the information you sent. I went back at the Quadram power supply and I could see the first band on the burnt resistor and it was orange. I measured the bad resistor and it measured 359 ohms so I thought maybe it only marginally change...

Was going thru my JR items came across a box that looked taped from the factory.. so grabbed my knife gently broke the sealed tape slid out the hard foam package lifted had to break the tape again on the foam top/bottom. Lifted the top foam and to my amazement in side was a NEW PCJR sealed in the ba...

Ahhhh this is like the Rapport units.....
good pics thanks

I've never seen the BackPack Floppy can you post a picture ?

I bought a new 5153 with my New Eagle PC in '85... From what I remember it had a little better resolution than the Jr monitor, but heck back then COLOR computing was phenomenal... so I was not that critical... I will get aroundto unvboxing someday, when time permits and will do a side by side compar...

Yes I believe so, from what I remember, (foggy) it is a closed network with unique software for each JR to run.....

never seen one running but would be fun to watch two Jrs on an original network

It is for the Real Time Clock they have as a feature...
obviously you use it upgrade the Jr date/timestamp at boot up in the Autoexec.

I have one of these......also it was something I had on my original system I bought in 1985...
with the mouse.... WOW so cool PCPAINT... Jr...

Chuck

the jr cases have a conductive coating, if you use an ohm meter you cantest this... Not sure why this would matter, but more so I am thinking the side case is keeping the JRIDE connector from properly seating and without the case it can plug in more deeply... can you see if this is a possible issue,...

I have a test unit with JRIde , LPT side card, regular power brick, TandyMod and PCsprint. and Serial Card.

All works well booting from a Standard mechancial Hard drive, but had issues with a DOM...

Another thought, when I was using my DOM, it crashed 3 times and had to reformat and load files... Not sure why, but since I put a regular hard drive on, no problems, may be a speed timing issue, just a guess.. if you have a hard drive, that may be the answer. Note I was doing alot of Turbo Pascal a...