We’ve mentioned previously the challenges that come with maintaining vintage computers which in some cases are pushing 40 years old. Components, even high quality ones, eventually fail and need to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a time when Apple actively taunted and brashed its way to the top of the personal computer marketplace, dominant mainframe computer manufacturer IBM decided to dip its big blue toes into the ...

Microsoft Build is Microsoft’s most interesting event because it focuses on the people that build stuff, mostly code, but often, as is the case this year, hardware. Last week, Microsoft held its ...

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 ...