Incredibly, at least one PCjr actually worked right off.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Incredibly, at least one PCjr actually worked right off. I bought a bunch of PCjr stuff from someone ages ago, three computers and a bunch of random other junk from the big Computer Reset sale. I'm cleaning out my junk room and just reached the PCjr pile, or one of them.

First keyboard didn't work, and the computer made a frantic arrhythmic beeping until I swapped in another...this one a chiclet.

Everything's coming up Milhouse.

#retrocomputing

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Chiclet!

Even my contact cleaner is vintage.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Funny thing from the Computer Reset sale, I had PCjr keyboards but no cables (it's a weird custom thing, RJ11 sort of plug on the keyboard side, square thing on the computer side). So I asked if they had any cables left (I only got to Dallas at the very end of the sales and all the really good stuff was long gone) and the volunteers all looked at each other and laughed. They still had thousands of them, just boxes and boxes. It was apparently a running joke how many there were.