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Newsgroups: net.general,net.rumor
Subject: IBM-PCjr Rumors Confirmed
Message-ID: <133@houxl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 11:10:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 24 11:10:23 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Oct-83 07:55:11 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Recently I talked to some friends in the Gartner Group
(a market research company in Stamford, Ct) about the
status of IBM's PCjr.

Apparently, IBM has been sampling the PCjr for months.
It is not based on Intel's 80188 CPU... it IS based on
Intel's 8088 CPU (as previously speculated). IBM is
patiently waiting for the Christmas buying season for
the most beneficial time to offer the new PCjr for sale.

It has been reported that IBM can ONLY produce about
100K PCjr.s before the end of the year. Therefore, an
early announcement would result in shortages before the
Holidays. Also, Apple is expected to make a PC announcement
January, 1984. Ideally, IBM would like to "de-fuse"
Apple's announcement by announcing the PCjr "on the heels"
of the Apple announcement.

Bottom line... IBM is expected to make the FORMAL PCjr
announcement the end of the first or second week in November.

If anyone has more info on IBM's Token Ring Architecture
LAN for their PC line please post them &/or send mail to
me at houxl!msg... Thanks!