Hello Aaron, welcome to the list.. I dealt with a PC jr a few years ago,
and iirr, it didn't boot itself, you had to insert a dos (gawd help me
If you turn on a PCjr without a disk in place (or without a controller
card at all...) it will go into ROM (cassette) BASIC.
what version) floppy to get it to boot. No clue
as to whether that's the
Certainly a 'stock' PC-DOS 3.3 floppy will work. That's what I boot mine
off. It needs to be a 360K disk (of course).
The drive in my PCjr has an interesting failure mode in that it must be
missing some sort of Track 0 stop. Basically, certain types of disk errors
will send the head off into never-never land until it is manually reset.
Am I correct in assuming I can swap in a regular 360K drive, caveat the
lack of original IBM logo?
<<<John>>>