This one should also be an easy guess, but I’m posting it because I think it’s cute and quaint, and I haven’t found any decent high-res photos of this mainboard alone on the web.
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I saw the 6845, 8255 and the RCA jacks, and more (c) IBM parts than one would expect on non-IBM product, and I’m pretty sure IBM wasn’t in the business of making consumer video light organs like Atari was.
It’s got to be. The cartridge ports on the front pretty much nail it also.
My first guess too as soon as I saw an 8088 with a layout that looks nothing like an XT/AT machine.
I’m thinking it’s the second generation one with the revised keyboard because I don’t see an IR receiver for the original chiclet keyboard, unless that’s what the 4×2 header top center is for.
It is the Tandy – Radio Shack variant of the PC Junior. I’ll think of the name in a few minutes. – the Tandy 1000? I remember it had a strange graphic mode similar to the PCjr (I was doing game ports back then)
I remember my dad bringing home an IBM PCjr from Big Blue one year. He even had the memory expanded (via some hacked up method by someone in the office I think). We played the hell out of that machine. Kings Quest (pirated so we didn’t know for months that there was a Save button), turtle draw I think. Basic cartridge. I even have some of the manuals around.
omg, is that an IBM PCjr?
I saw the 6845, 8255 and the RCA jacks, and more (c) IBM parts than one would expect on non-IBM product, and I’m pretty sure IBM wasn’t in the business of making consumer video light organs like Atari was.
It’s got to be. The cartridge ports on the front pretty much nail it also.
My first guess too as soon as I saw an 8088 with a layout that looks nothing like an XT/AT machine.
I’m thinking it’s the second generation one with the revised keyboard because I don’t see an IR receiver for the original chiclet keyboard, unless that’s what the 4×2 header top center is for.
I said PCjr to myself when I first looked at it. The IBM XE1503723 is what did it for me.
Hmm, 8088 processor, ROM chips with IBM copyrights, some weird/proprietary connectors, including one on the side? IBM PCjr, confirmed by http://www.brutman.com/PCjr/pcjr_pictures_2.html#Motherboard
It is the Tandy – Radio Shack variant of the PC Junior. I’ll think of the name in a few minutes. – the Tandy 1000? I remember it had a strange graphic mode similar to the PCjr (I was doing game ports back then)
I remember my dad bringing home an IBM PCjr from Big Blue one year. He even had the memory expanded (via some hacked up method by someone in the office I think). We played the hell out of that machine. Kings Quest (pirated so we didn’t know for months that there was a Save button), turtle draw I think. Basic cartridge. I even have some of the manuals around.