Most of us think of keyboards — even vintage ones — as being fairly standardized and interchangeable, but that isn’t the case for the IBM PCjr. Its keyboard was quite unlike most others of its time, ...

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 ...

It's not every day that you stumble on a website powered by hardware that pre-dates the dial-up modem era of the internet, but that's exactly what's happening over at Brutmans Lab. It's a site ...

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 ...

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 ...

In brief: In the world of web hosting, uptime is everything. Although this example won't set any records for how long it has been running since its last reboot, it is impressive nevertheless given its ...

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 ...

Can IBM get it right the second time around? With the announcement of its new PS1 line of home computers-standard MS-DOS PCs bearing the vaunted IBM label, but priced for the mass market-Big Blue is ...

The IBM PCjr was intended to appeal to those who delighted in video games. This flight simulation software for the IBM PC and PCjr, developed by Microsoft, includes a 5 1/4"diskette and manual.