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From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Thu Oct 1 20:36:57 1998

I believe the DOS version was PC-DOS 2.11. From reading previous posts on
this list, and other places, the floppy drive in the PCjr was fairly
flimsy, so if may be a "standard" problem.
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         -Jason
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> From: Will Emerson <wpe101_at_banet.net>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: New to the list
> Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 9:26 PM
>
> 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
Received on Thu Oct 01 1998 - 20:36:57 BST