23 Jun
1997
23 Jun
'97
6:39 a.m.
A place in my location called surplus exchange, has about a dozen pcJR's on
a skid. I didn't find any power supplies, but by the looks of the place,
they could be anywhere. Let me know what to look for when I go back and
I'll see if I can't rescue some more. (assuming the old lady lets me). I
know the PC JR I bought, has a Parallell port on the outside, which I
learned only today is a "Side-car". I have dozens of composite mono and
color monitors from my apple// and Zenith collections. I also managed to
scrounge out of this pile, [one] keyboard with cable, and [one] joystick
and about 5 or 6 cartridges. The other PCjr,s seemed to be alone. Let me
know what to look for on the CPU's and I can go through all of them one by
one. If anyone else want's one, let me know and we can see what we can do.
Last trip there I got a TI99/4a, atari 800, 1050 drive, 410 drive, Tandy
COCO 1,. Commodore 1741 drive, Commodore mps 803 printer (I think) it works
good. And an apple//+ for parts. I paid 35 for everything. I noticed this
pallete of Jr's but I sure as heck didn't see any monitors, keyboards or
power, except the one keyboard I did find elsewhere in the building.
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From: jpero(a)mail.cgo.wave.ca
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: IBM PCjr
Date: Monday, June 23, 1997 9:28 AM
Welp, that rules out rigging one, thats beyond my
techincal ability to
fabricate. Anyone have an Extra for sale or trade?
They're underrated but you
can just get one to keep orginals but I
could supply you a adapter for your own use with a PC power supply
box. This way, you can simply plug in and go?
I do not know where to get these black transformer bricks. The
PCjr around here is rare as hen's teeth in my hometown. :)
Considering that, I was lucky to find it in standard configuration of
parallel port side car and the box but no cartidges! :(
I also overheard that someone was trying to use TV with PCjr, you
missed something really needed: demodulator box or find a computer
compsite monitor which works better especially in 80 column mode.
Commorde color monitors is good picks for this.
Jason D.