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From: revatt@aluxz.UUCP (EVATT)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: End of the PCjr
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 08:48:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 08:48:45 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA
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I heard last night that IBM is discontinuing the PCjr as of April.
The reason given was poor profit margins or low sales or something
like that.  Sales had increased dramaticallly during their promotion
during the Christmas season I thought.  Perhaps IBM did too good a
job of crippling the jr to avoid cutting into PC sales and could not
recover from all the negative initial publicity is spite of the upgrades
they provided.

Does anyone know the details about the demise of the jr?
If so, please fill us in.

Robert Evatt
AT&T Bell Labs, Allentown, PA