Inexplicably, all three PCjr machines work.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Inexplicably, all three PCjr machines work. And, not only that, the disk drives work, sound works, and the first piece of packaged software I tried (a lovely and weird little thing called Electric Poet), all Just Worked. My best 4:3 monitor seems to be dying, though, so it's not all perfect in the retro room.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

This software (intended for children!) is harder to use than vi. I would have hated this.This is the Quick Reference card. I'm 90% certain it would be easier to make something in BASIC than to use this program to do something similar. I certainly used BASIC on the C64 when I was a kid to make similar stuff, anyway, and as an adult who's used computers for four decades, I cannot make anything good happen with it.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

I guess I gotta get some way to get more software onto one of these. Looks like it's either jrIDE or a Gotek with HxC firmware...but, since these don't have memory expansion already, it's probably worth going with a more expensive jrIDE for the 1MB memory.

And, since the disk drives actually work, I kinda hate to swap them for a Gotek. I have Racore expansion boxes for a second disk drive slot, but they're all incomplete, missing parts I can't even identify or find references for.