Uh, is this thing on?

It was thus said that the Great Bill Whitson once stated: But both keyboards for the PCjr (the original chicklet one, and the replacement keyboard) are infra-red (although I never did use the infra-red port, instead opting for the keyboard connection cable. Ends up being cheaper as I didn't have to buy AA batteries). It was perhaps the only two keyboards made by IBM that didn't have a nice feel to them [1]. The Tandy 6000 is one heavy machine. The unit contains a built in monitor (10" I think - it's at home, I'm at work), one 8" drive, and a half-hight MFM harddrive in an akward enclosure. And the design of the case is that of a madman[2]. Both Tandy 6000s I have broke in the exact same place when I opened them for cleaning [4]. I fixed one, and have yet to get around to fixing the one I dropped. I don't know ... it's not a bad machine. -spc (Tired of using cheap PC crap ... ) [1] I'm very picky about my keyboards, and actually prefer IBM keyboards to any other kind. The best is the IBM AT keyboard, which has a nice layout, heavy construction and can be used to bludgeon a person (or a bad computer). The orginal IBM PC keyboard has the same feel, but the layout makes it all but unusuable. PS/2 keyboards don't quite have the same feel, but they're still better than 99% of all PC keyboards out there. Plus you can remove the keycaps and swap them around on unsuspecting people [3]. [2] The same madman must have designed the uVAX 2000 case, because in that one, you have to remove the motherboard to get to the harddrive. [3] Which I did to my officemate when I worked at IBM. [4] The monitor is attached to the top part of the case, with some analog circuitry along the side of the case. Attached to this is a connector to a small ribbon cable leading from the computer itself. In both machines, this connector came off with part of the board it was attached to still inside. Easily fixed with two DB25 connectors and some solder.