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My first computer: The sad little IBM PCjr

by Jason Calacanis on December 31, 2009 at 03:00 PM

When I was getting ready to head to high school in 1983 I begged my father to get me a computer. I really wanted an IBM PC, but on the middle class living we made do with IBM's newest model: the IBM PCjr It was a cute little computer with a "chiclet" keyboard, 128K of RAM and two cartridge slots. Nope, it didn't have a hard drive and the floppy drive was 180k. It took a couple of minutes to ...
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