New subject: New aquisitions: PCjr (minus power supply) and Amstrad PC 6400

17 Oct 2001

The IBM PS/1 models 2011 and 2121 both use the same monitor with power supply 
inside. I get several emails from people that buy the CPU but didnt get the 
display with it.  PCjr power supplies show up every once in a while around 
here, especially at hamfests. In fact, I bought a jr a few months back with a 
second story floppy drive that connects to the main unit. I'd like to hook up 
my PCjr hard drive to it also. 

In a message dated 10/17/2001 11:43:23 AM Central Daylight Time, 
lgwalker(a)mts.net writes:

<<  The 1640 reminds me of the IBM 2011 with the power supply in the monitor 
 unit. There was an informative thread a while back on the mail list in the 
 spring of 1999 regarding the 1640. I have one but alas no K-B. I did win one 
 on e-bay but was never able to get a reply from the seller. 
  I also have a PCjr and like you don't have the PSU. They come up on e-pay
 occasionally but either I haven't had the money at that time or else the 
seller
 wouldn't ship to Canada. I have managed to acquire some manuals for it, 
 including the IBM one, however, as well as some cartridges but they are 
 buried somewhere among my stuff which is still in disarray due to my move 
 this summer. When I run across them I'll let you know.

  Lawrence 
...
  Went to a new thrift store this week.  Ended up with
way more stuff
 than I expected to.  The big items were a complete Amstrad PC 6400
 (8-bit PC clone, dual half-height floppies, 3 ISA slots, proprietary
 monitor that powers the base through a monster DIN connector, 
 proprietary keyboard with 9-pin joystick connector) and a nearly complete
 PCjr w/128K and parallel port sidecars (got non-chicklet keyboard w/cable
 and CPU, but no PSU).  How much should a PCjr PSU  run me? What cartridges
 were there for it?  The company I used to write kids games for (Software
 Productions - makers of "Alphabet Beasts and Company, Micro Mother Goose,
 Micro Habitats, etc.) did support it, but I was the C-64 dude, not the
 PeeCee dude.  (ob digression: when the company closed, we _did_ hold the
 door open with the PCjr - it really was a doorstop ;-)

 The scary part is that the Amstrad was about triple the cost of the Peanut
 (~$6 (after markdown from $11) vs ~$2).  I guess size does matter.  

 So far in my digging, I've found that the Amstrad PC 6400 is the
 American name for the Amstrad PC 1640, and I found a good Amstrad
 resource at http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/index.htm
 Any other good tips?

 -ethan
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