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First post, by renejr902

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Hi! i want to buy this untested ibm jr monitor 4863. The only test that have been made was plugged the power in it and power on. The person dont have a ibm pc jr to test it. I want to buy this monitor to use it as a cga monitor wjth my ibm 5150 with the ibm jr to cga adapter, or i will make the adapter myself i found the correct pinout and connection to solder.

Thanks for answer.

If possible and you have a working ibm jr monitor, try to turn it on without connecting it to computer to see if it does the same thing than my picture. Thanks a lot.

Reply 1 of 5, by renejr902

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Finally i bougth the screen. I have the pinout of the ibm monitor and a db9 cga monitor i will make the adapter myself and let you know if the monitor works. I paid 100$ca canadian money, it still a good deal, in 3 years i didnt find a cga monitor for sellinf in Canada and the better deal was 300$ or more from USA. In the ibm pcjr maintenance manual it said the screen is all white when power on with no pc connection to it, to me the picture looks like that. We will see soon.

Reply 2 of 5, by renejr902

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When i local pick-up the ibm pcjr monitor the seller sold me some part and a ibm 5153 the original cga monitor for my ibm 5150, but the monitor was not tested. i paid 70$ and it works perfect, i'm so happy.

i have the original hdd, all original part, except the original xt ibm keyboard, only missing piece, but my current xt keyboard works great

Reply 3 of 5, by BitWrangler

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Awesome 👍

Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.

Reply 4 of 5, by Joakim

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That's a fair price! It is a very cool combo. Maybe not that ergonomic but I don't think you will run spread sheets on it. :-p

Reply 5 of 5, by renejr902

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i will only game on the ibm 😉 at 7 years old i played a lot of dos games from that era with my original 5150 and ibm cga monitor, i'm back in these day with this ibm combo 😀

I will try later this week the pcjr monitor with a adapter on my ibm 5150 and let you know the result with picture 😀