Comments on: PCjr 25 years later

By: Casanovaf

Casanovaf — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:53:52 +0000

I always wondered later about the whole thing freezing up when the disk was working! Still, I loved my PCjr!

By: anon

anon — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:59:26 +0000

y are they not sleeping in the barn like normal negroes?

By: Davin Peterson

Davin Peterson — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:46:07 +0000

It’s also the 25th birthday of Microsoft Windows

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:01:14 +0000

mark, the word you’re looking for is “do”

By: wes

wes — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:12:23 +0000

mine is in my parents garage somewhere, maybe one of these days I’ll, in the name of nostalgia, fix the broken power supply.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:50:42 +0000

Hey kids, before you go off to school, lets use the new PCJnr to download…umm, …upload…ahh, …surf…err, …send…damnit!!

By: AlmightyOrb

AlmightyOrb — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:27:50 +0000

We had these at my elementary school. We used to rush through our work and fight over who got the Jumpman disk(ette, 5.25″) first.

By: M H

M H — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:20:01 +0000

In the last few years Apple seems to have been paying homage to the PCjr by reintroducing the chicklet keyboard. Others seem to be doing similar keyboards (no dished tops, no click, etc.). Just about like the PCjr. So much for progress.
(On the other hand IBM built some great PC keyboards, I am using one to type this.)

By: Crashmaxx

Crashmaxx — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:00:20 +0000

am i the only one that noticed they have a black family in the ad for their cheapest computer?

seems a little inappropriate.

By: srw

srw — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:51:26 +0000

mewse: of course it was on the kitchen table. we all know what a home computer is good for, right?!?

(For those younger people among us, the correct answer is “you can keep your recipes on it”)

By: mewse

mewse — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:05:06 +0000

what a bizarre marketing photo. the machine is in their kitchen, and they are using it on the kitchen island? they’re all dressed in their work clothes? the monitor isn’t sitting on the machine, which is probably to show off the plain grey box.

it’s kinda obvious that it was from the age that the public were just getting familiar with microcomputers. no marketing department today would try to show this as typical usage.

By: Polymath

Polymath — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:33:49 +0000

whats really sad is that I have been in government buildings that were still using these things. Back in August I had to pick up a few birth certificates and there were two of these things in the corner, hell my certificates were printed on tractor fed paper! course… so was my high school diploma. they at least had the courtasy to tear the holes of the sides.

By: bundy

bundy — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:01:41 +0000

25 years on and my pc still grinds to a halt when it encounters a hard to read dvd. So much for progress.

By: colonel

colonel — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:50:32 +0000

tastes like kfc!

By: Kaos

Kaos — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:19:12 +0000

I remember the days. In elementary school, the teachers used apple 2′s to grade scantron test. Moved into High school, they had all the apples in the closet and Ibm pcjr and Pc’s on the desk. I knew how to program from the magazine from those periods. Everyone knew the jr’s were more of a graphics toy that anything else.