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From: John Ruschmeyer <jruschme_at_exit109.com>
Date: Sat Oct 3 08:52:15 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
>
> If you turn on a PCjr without a disk in place (or without a controller
> card at all...) it will go into ROM (cassette) BASIC.
>
> > what version) floppy to get it to boot. No clue as to whether that's the
>
> Certainly a 'stock' PC-DOS 3.3 floppy will work. That's what I boot mine
> off. It needs to be a 360K disk (of course).

The drive in my PCjr has an interesting failure mode in that it must be
missing some sort of Track 0 stop. Basically, certain types of disk errors
will send the head off into never-never land until it is manually reset.

Am I correct in assuming I can swap in a regular 360K drive, caveat the
lack of original IBM logo?

<<<John>>>
Received on Sat Oct 03 1998 - 08:52:15 BST