29 Sep
2005
29 Sep
'05
7:44 a.m.
the eccentricity of some of these early machines is
what makes them so interesting. At least a Peanut
could run some PC software, alot actually! Not so on
the Tandy 2000...or TI PC...or NEC APC/III...or Victor
9000...or DEC Rainbow...
Ok ok, some of them had "compatibility options". My
NEC APC III has that. Haven't played with it much. I
reckon it'll be just shy of dissappointing.
I reckon most people don't collect this stuph becuase
they can't find anything better to work on LOL LOL.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 9/28/2005 at 9:40 PM William Donzelli wrote:
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> > I have to admit, even though I'm not
a PC fan
by any means, I found
the PCjr
> > fascinating. It didn't deserve the fate it got
(though it *did*
deserve a
> > better price point than it was saddled with).
>
> I have several, as I've always found them
fascinating:
Okay, I don't get it. What's so special about a
plastic box with a wimpy power supply (what was it,
32 watts?) that can't even do DMA, for the love of
Mike? A friend who should've known better bought
one and upgraded it, bit by bit, to include a hard
disk and, I believe, an external ISA card cage. He
spent more on getting that poor thing to some sort
of usefulness than he would have had he purchased a
regular PC/XT (much less a clone). Even so, he kept
running into the "Sorry, this doesn't work on a PC
Jr." situation.
I think it's pretty clear that IBM intended the PC
Jr. as a teaser to eventually get you to upgrade to
a standard XT. Did IBM dealers offer trade-in
deals?
Cheers,
Chuck