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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

I’m not sure I can listen to things, I mean really listen, without doodling. It’s been like that as long as I can remember; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Retro-tech YouTube is an awesome place to lose months and months of time—it's a place where awesome creators like The 8-Bit Guy and Techmoan ply their wares, tempting viewers with in-depth discussions ...

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.