IBM PC hacking

On 9/28/2005 at 9:40 PM William Donzelli wrote: Okay, I don't get it. What's so special about a plastic box with a wimpy power supply (what was it, 32 watts?) that can't even do DMA, for the love of Mike? A friend who should've known better bought one and upgraded it, bit by bit, to include a hard disk and, I believe, an external ISA card cage. He spent more on getting that poor thing to some sort of usefulness than he would have had he purchased a regular PC/XT (much less a clone). Even so, he kept running into the "Sorry, this doesn't work on a PC Jr." situation. I think it's pretty clear that IBM intended the PC Jr. as a teaser to eventually get you to upgrade to a standard XT. Did IBM dealers offer trade-in deals? Cheers, Chuck