IBM PC hacking

[Chris 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:
> 
> >> > 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
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