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First post, by mbbrutman

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System specifications:

  • NEC V20 CPU running at 4.77Mhz
  • 736KB RAM (64KB on the motherboard, 64KB on an internal card, and the rest on the jrIDE sidecar)
  • QumeTrak 142 5.25 double density floppy drive
  • Bootable IDE interface (jrIDE sidecar)
  • 20GB Maxtor IDE hard drive (up to 8GB usable)
  • IBM PC 5150 keyboard connected via a Racore keyboard adapter
  • Two joysticks
  • Parallel port sidecar modified to be bi-directional
  • Xircom PE3-10BT Ethernet adapter on the parallel port
  • Additional power via a power sidecar
  • Dallas 1216E real-time clock
  • OS: Dual boot to either IBM PC DOS 3.3 or IBM PC DOS 5.02
  • On the screen: mTCP IRCjr IRC client connected to slashnet.org

Additional peripherals (not attached at the moment):

  • Iomega Zip 100 drive w/ PalmZip drivers
  • Second bi-directional parallel port sidecar
  • Speech adapter sidecar
  • Microsolutions Backpack 3.5" floppy drive
  • Bridge-888 parallel port SCSI adapter
  • IBM 2x SCSI CD-ROM
  • 500MB Fujitsu SCSI hard drive
  • Western Digital 8003 Ethernet card via an ISA bus adapter
  • Microsoft serial mouse

Reply 5 of 7, by mbbrutman

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carlostex wrote:

Awesome! Most amazing PCjr i have ever seen.

Actually, they get much better. A PCjr with an expansion chassis is pretty cool. With a 2nd and 3rd expansion chassis or a string of 8 sidecars they get borderline ridiculous. 😊

Reply 7 of 7, by Jolaes76

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Another "reference" build, I think, like the V'ger XT, MIDI General etc.
Yes, it should get a name 😀

"Ita in vita ut in lusu alae pessima iactura arte corrigenda est."

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