16 Dec
2002
16 Dec
'02
9:55 p.m.
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 22:28, chris wrote:
Didn't the IBM PCjr have two aux sockets on the
front for game cartridges
and I thought there was a printer interface that could use those sockets,
and a floppy drive interface as well (could be wrong).
The only front-facing "ports" on the jr were the cartridge slots (if you
count those). There were cartridges that could provide connections to
other devices, but these were not very common. Besides the hole for the
infra-red port on the front of the jr, the face is portless.
The parallel port was added via a sidecar which would have placed the
DB-25 on the rear of the machine. There were *many* was to add floppies
to the jr, but the cartridge ports were not one of them.
Jeff
And of course Mac's up to the Mac Plus have the keyboard port in the
front, as well as I have seen some old PC clones like that (but I suspect
that isn't exactly what you are looking for).
-chris
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