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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It may be midwinter in Perth, but people still go to the beach there, which led to the surprising discovery earlier this week of what appears to be a large hunk of space debris. Local authorities ...

Are people buying the HP Touchpad en masse to make a profit of it? Seems that way. HP Hewlett-Packard plans to exit the smartphone business, a year after it paid about $1.2 billion to acquire Palm and ...

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 ...