28 Sep
2005
28 Sep
'05
7:05 p.m.
On 9/28/2005 at 9:40 PM William Donzelli wrote:
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
> 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: