30 years ago, the IBM PCjr was released.
I remember using one at The Bay downtown Winnipeg store (Computerland) when they first came out in the Spring (April 1984). And later on that year, a student friend at Kelvin High School used to talk about his family having one.
It flopped in the market because it was under-powered and cost more than other home computers of the time (Apple II, Commodore 64, and TRS-80 CoCo.
Still, I love the design, and long for those days when there were no Rif-Raf on Graham Ave. downtown and television programming, especially on CBC, had taken on a new edgy sophistication.
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