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Baby Jenn starts her first computer in 1985:
@dolari its a bit before my time but its surprising the pcjr didnt really tale off, but the clones of it did p well
@Mondobizarrro - Marketing. Basically IBM pushed the PCjr as a Home IBM PC, and it failed as that completely. It was great for home use, but by pushing the IBM PC part of it, they really made it seem it could run regular PC software, which it kinda did, but not well. Plus all the internals were proprietary.
When the Tandy systems came out, they basically pushed it as it's own thing and not an IBM clone, so the Tandy systems took off, despite basically being PCjrs.
@dolari ah ok, that makes sense.
@dolari speaking of ibm stuff my pc uses an old ibm model m as its keyboard. It was made in august of 1987, which is surprising it still works
@Mondobizarrro - Those old keyboards were made to last. BIG OLD CLICKY KEYS.
@dolari i mean the keyboard also weighs quite a lot. You could probably use it as a weapon and it would still work fine
Seriously, that makes my heart go: "Awwwwwwwwwww."