While reading all about how Microsoft wants to give away a "crippled" version of Windows 7 to Netbook buyers and then try to upsell them, I kept harking back to the early 1980s, my earliest days in ...

International Business Machines Corp. announced more price cuts sweeping across its personal computer line Friday, ranging from 22 to 28 percent. The price cuts affect the PCjr home computer model and ...

The IBM PCjr was a computer only the marketing geniuses of a multi-billion dollar corporation could love. On the face of it, it seemed like a great idea – a machine for the home market, meant to ...

Few products in the history of marketing came into being with more fanfare that the IBM PCjr home computer. Introduced in November 1983, the Peanut, as it was known throughout the industry, was hailed ...

The IBM PCjr was laid to rest after being slain by the Commodore 64 and Apple IIe. Known for its dual cartridge ports and undersized overlay keyboard, the PCjr helped pioneer home computing and show ...

International Business Machines Corp. announced late Tuesday that the IBM PCjr computer is dead, just 14 months after it began shipping it. IBM will halt production on the low-end model, designed ...

Faced with lagging demand for its least expensive personal computer, International Business Machines Corp. has decided to end production of the PCjr. IBM said Tuesday that it will end production of ...

More than 860 cases, including 358 unmarried mothers and delinquent girls, are under the supervision of the St. Louis County Child Welfare Board, according to its annual report. A guidebook on the ...

Personal computers have never seemed more promising than in the early 1980s, when they began to enter American homes in large numbers and the whole idea of using a computer for entertainment, ...

I have an IBM PCjr that worked when it went into the attic. The attic was cleaned out and now this is going too.If anyone lives anywhere near Elkins Park PA (near Philadelphia) and wants a PCjr its ...