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From: minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,L08,x640,7776519)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: IBM PCJr
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Date: 17 Aug 90 22:46:27 GMT
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In article <8977@ur-cc.UUCP> ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi) writes:
>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.

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

I might add that the first C programs I wrote were on a PC Jr, running
Turbo C 1.5. I went to a really stupid high school - they bought TIs
when they were $200, and they bought a bunch of IBM PC Jrs when they
were cheap too.  Needless to say, they were practically useless computers
(alt.sys.boat.anchors being appropriate), but the Jrs were mildly usable.

They ran Turbo Pascal 3.0 just dandy like. Its an old language, but its usable.

Someone managed to hack together a copy of TC 1.5 small enough to run on a
PC Jr. It fit on two 360k disks, and probably included a bare minimum of
header files, only the small libraries, and not much else. We were using the
integrated environment, for what its worth. I think I even managed to run
the compiler on a 128k Jr once, but I definitely wouldn't swear to it.

Anyway, if you take an old version of Turbo C, and use the command line
compiler (which is better anyway, IMHO), it should run ok on a 640k Jr. Now
then, I will not relate stories of how Fast the compiler went, other than to
say that compiling hello.c on a 2 floppy system took over 90 seconds. I soon
convinced my school to purchase an AT, and life was happy..