{"id":254,"date":"2022-09-02T03:52:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T03:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/?p=254"},"modified":"2023-01-17T20:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:24:03","slug":"the-pcjr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/02\/the-pcjr\/","title":{"rendered":"The PCJr"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-254 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/02\/the-pcjr\/304843660_10158465531190047_2746158936189087120_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/304843660_10158465531190047_2746158936189087120_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/02\/the-pcjr\/304904866_10158465531320047_6115129430058338039_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/304904866_10158465531320047_6115129430058338039_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/02\/the-pcjr\/287184586_10158465531410047_8990686218585817420_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/287184586_10158465531410047_8990686218585817420_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/02\/the-pcjr\/305032296_10158465531485047_3117042777587568071_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/305032296_10158465531485047_3117042777587568071_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/02\/the-pcjr\/305042812_10158465531535047_1441408677366224504_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/305042812_10158465531535047_1441408677366224504_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A slight diversion this evening&#8230;..the powerhouse that is the PCJr.<\/p>\n<p>The PCJr was an eventual failure in the market, with around 400,000 total produced.  Interestingly enough Tandy even made a PCJr semi-clone called the Tandy 1000.<\/p>\n<p>The power supply was bad, but I had a spare so I was able to get that working.  At first the keyboard wasn&#8217;t working, which is a somewhat common problem with these PCJrs.  There is a capacitor in the keyboard that eventually starts shorting, so a replacement fixed that.<\/p>\n<p>I have a cartridge that goes in the cartridge port that maps an SD card as a hard drive, which makes it much easier to move things around.<\/p>\n<p>Once I get it formatted, I&#8217;ll get Kings Quest running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slight diversion this evening&#8230;..the powerhouse that is the PCJr. The PCJr was an eventual failure in the market, with around 400,000 total produced. Interestingly enough Tandy even made a PCJr semi-clone called the Tandy 1000. The power supply was bad, but I had a spare so I was able to get that working. At first the keyboard wasn&#8217;t working, which is a somewhat common problem with these PCJrs. There is a capacitor in the keyboard that eventually starts shorting,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/02\/the-pcjr\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}