RE: 19 March 1985: Happy Death Day, IBM PCJr.

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

IIRC, the announcement of the PS/2 and MicroChannel was April 2 or
thereabouts in 1987, so we're coming up on that ignominious anniversary as
well, which also was the official birth of the OS/2 relationship with
Microsoft. Talk about "did not bode well for IBM"

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 9:38 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] 19 March 1985: Happy Death Day, IBM PCJr.

Via The History Channel Online and Wikipedia.

[snip]

On this day in 1985, IBM pulled the plug on its floundering home computer,
the PCjr. First introduced in November of 1983, the PCjr had been created to
fuel IBM's efforts to rule the consumer computer market. In its initial
press packet for the PCjr, IBM touted the computer as a "compact, low-cost"
machine for "personal productivity applications, learning and
entertainment."

However, the hype and putatively puny price couldn't induce people to buy
the machine: after sixteen months on the market, consumers had snapped up
but 240,000 units. The failure of the PCjr did not bode well for IBM: during
the ensuing years, the company struggled to make the transition from its
traditional realm of business computing to the burgeoning home user market.

[snip]

http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/03/19-march-1985-happy-death-day-ibm-pc.ht
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- ferg


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