Altos and JX questions

From: Adam Jenkins <adam_at_merlin.net.au>
Date: Fri Mar 13 08:28:12 1998

>The infamous Japanese PCjr? The JX was the last straw for the jr community.
>When we heard about it we though IBM was fixing to revive the jr--little
>did we know. Is there any chance you could post a couple snapshots of the
>JX somewhere? I'd love to have a look at one so I can cry in my beer.

I opened one of them up to check her out, and have a shot of the system
with the cover off. As soonas I get the film proceesed I'll put them up.
 An ugly beast though - I like them, but they are an ugly dark gray.

>IIRC, the JX could boot PC-DOS 2.10. If it's inwards are anything like the
>PCjr, it's a 128K box, so unless it has been expanded, you're probably
>stuck with DOS 2.10 or 3.x.

It seems they were 512k as standard, but there was no seperate video ram
so 64k of that was taken.

thanks heaps,

Adam.
Received on Fri Mar 13 1998 - 08:28:12 GMT