mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) (08/15/90)
Hello net folks. A friend of mine recently obtained a old IBM PCJr and has asked me to assist him in finding software for it. Does anyone know of a FTP site,newsgroup, or other source of PC Jr software? Thanks. Mike
wmf@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Fischer) (08/17/90)
In article <1990Aug15.040807.9731@caen.engin.umich.edu> mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes: >Hello net folks. A friend of mine recently obtained a old IBM PCJr >and has asked me to assist him in finding software for it. Does anyone >know of a FTP site,newsgroup, or other source of PC Jr software? > Try alt.sys.boat.anchors -- | Bill Fischer | INTERNET : wmf@chinet.chi.il.us | | US Agent for Omega Electronics | COMPUSERVE: 76257,1226 | | "Olympic Timekeepers Since 1936" | MCIMAIL : 3110885 | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-< The opinions expressed here are my own >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi) (08/17/90)
In article <1990Aug16.205629.1094@chinet.chi.il.us> wmf@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Fischer) writes: >In article <1990Aug15.040807.9731@caen.engin.umich.edu> mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes: >>Hello net folks. A friend of mine recently obtained a old IBM PCJr >>and has asked me to assist him in finding software for it. Does anyone > >Try alt.sys.boat.anchors Come off it! Let's not make the PC Jr to be any worse than it is. First of all, I discovered that the PC Jr can run any current version of DOS including 4.00. If you are lucky, and have more than 128k of RAM (640k expansion box) then things are not so bad (otherwise they are quite bad). Either way, the JR will NOT run QuickBasic, TurboBasic, Windows, et.al. The JR will run : MathCad (student edition) Lotus 123 v. 1.x Pfs : Write and the following PD-software PC-DIAL JR. - TELECOMMUNICATIONS PC-FILE III JR. - DATABASE PC-CALC JR - SPREADSHEET PC-WRITE (older versions) - TEXT EDIT / WORD PROCESSING and I believe PD-software like PC-OUTLINE CHASM will also run (requires <128k) Most of this is available from PC-SIG. tim
minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,L08,x640,7776519) (08/18/90)
In article <8977@ur-cc.UUCP> ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi) writes: >In article <1990Aug16.205629.1094@chinet.chi.il.us> wmf@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Fischer) writes: >>In article <1990Aug15.040807.9731@caen.engin.umich.edu> mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes: >>>Hello net folks. A friend of mine recently obtained a old IBM PCJr >>>and has asked me to assist him in finding software for it. Does anyone >> >>Try alt.sys.boat.anchors > >Come off it! Let's not make the PC Jr to be any worse than it is. >Either way, the JR will NOT run QuickBasic, TurboBasic, Windows, et.al. >The JR will run : I might add that the first C programs I wrote were on a PC Jr, running Turbo C 1.5. I went to a really stupid high school - they bought TIs when they were $200, and they bought a bunch of IBM PC Jrs when they were cheap too. Needless to say, they were practically useless computers (alt.sys.boat.anchors being appropriate), but the Jrs were mildly usable. They ran Turbo Pascal 3.0 just dandy like. Its an old language, but its usable. Someone managed to hack together a copy of TC 1.5 small enough to run on a PC Jr. It fit on two 360k disks, and probably included a bare minimum of header files, only the small libraries, and not much else. We were using the integrated environment, for what its worth. I think I even managed to run the compiler on a 128k Jr once, but I definitely wouldn't swear to it. Anyway, if you take an old version of Turbo C, and use the command line compiler (which is better anyway, IMHO), it should run ok on a 640k Jr. Now then, I will not relate stories of how Fast the compiler went, other than to say that compiling hello.c on a 2 floppy system took over 90 seconds. I soon convinced my school to purchase an AT, and life was happy..
medin@cod.NOSC.MIL (Ted Medin) (08/21/90)
In article <8977@ur-cc.UUCP> ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi) writes: >In article <1990Aug16.205629.1094@chinet.chi.il.us> wmf@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Fischer) writes: >>In article <1990Aug15.040807.9731@caen.engin.umich.edu> mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes: >>Try alt.sys.boat.anchors >First of all, I discovered that the PC Jr can run any current version of DOS > including 4.00. Interesting i doubt this. I had a pcjr with 640k & hard disk. When i tried to run 3.3 it would work for a while and then lock up. Tried the install twice over 6 mos and still no bannana. Back to 3.1 and worked like a champ. The jr was not that bad of a machine i had mine for several yrs. And yes its supprising how much software it would run. I used microsoft c without any problems even the debuger. 73, ted n6trf