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From: Will Emerson <wpe101_at_banet.net>
Date: Thu Oct 1 20:26:53 1998

Hello Aaron, welcome to the list.. I dealt with a PC jr a few years ago,
and iirr, it didn't boot itself, you had to insert a dos (gawd help me
what version) floppy to get it to boot. No clue as to whether that's the
problem, but I'd suggest you try it. No guarantees, but, if you do need
one, I've got a steel box at work with a bunch of old floppies in it,
and I'll be happy to check it, and see if I still have a boot floppy
in there.. Oh, also, fwiw, the PC jr I played with, the floppy drive
was kind of "iffy" as to functioning properly, hopefully a
characteristic
local to the machine I was dealing with..

                                               Will


Aaron_J_Hayden_at_student.ferris.edu wrote:
>
> Howdy all,
>
> My name is Aaron Hayden and I have recently joined the list. Currently in
> my collection I have a C64, a PC Jr., a Hero robot and my trusty 486-66. I
> enjoy using the older systems and in some cases I think they're a bit more
> user friendly (at least for me). I was looking for some info on my PC Jr.
> and found the list. I'm sure I'll gain some knowledge and hopefully give
> some too. Which brings me to my first question... I was just recently
> given the PC Jr. however it seems it doesn't work. I have only plugged it
> in a couple times but haven't looked at it much more than that. I also do
> not have any documentation on it so I'm flying blind. When I turn it on the
> screen turns all grey. Anybody have this problem before? It has been
> sitting for a while but worked fine until it was boxed up. It came w/ two
> power supplies so maybe their both bad? Any ideas? thanks in advance.
>
> Aaron
Received on Thu Oct 01 1998 - 20:26:53 BST