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From: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: IBM PCJr
Message-ID: <8977@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 90 06:08:05 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.040807.9731@caen.engin.umich.edu> <1990Aug16.205629.1094@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
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In article <1990Aug16.205629.1094@chinet.chi.il.us> wmf@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Fischer) writes:
>In article <1990Aug15.040807.9731@caen.engin.umich.edu> mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes:
>>Hello net folks.  A friend of mine recently obtained a old IBM PCJr
>>and has asked me to assist him in finding software for it.  Does anyone
>
>Try alt.sys.boat.anchors

Come off it! Let's not make the PC Jr to be any worse than it is.

First of all, I discovered that the PC Jr can run any current version of DOS
 including 4.00.

If you are lucky, and have more than 128k of RAM (640k expansion box) then
things are not so bad (otherwise they are quite bad).

Either way, the JR will NOT run QuickBasic, TurboBasic, Windows, et.al.
The JR will run :

MathCad (student edition)
Lotus 123 v. 1.x
Pfs : Write

and the following PD-software 

PC-DIAL JR. - TELECOMMUNICATIONS
PC-FILE III JR. - DATABASE
PC-CALC JR - SPREADSHEET
PC-WRITE (older versions) - TEXT EDIT / WORD PROCESSING

and I believe PD-software like

PC-OUTLINE
CHASM

will also run (requires <128k)

Most of this is available from PC-SIG.

tim