{"id":706,"date":"2010-11-01T18:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T23:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2010-11-01T18:30:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T23:30:57","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-now-its-a-tough-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/706\/retro-scan-of-the-week-now-its-a-tough-choice","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Now It&#8217;s a Tough Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/tough_choice_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/tough_choice_small.jpg\" alt=\"Popular Computing October 1984 Cover - IBM PCjr vs. Apple IIc - Now it's a tough choice.\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Shades of Tasha Yar<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you were shopping for a home PC in 1984, you were bound to face this decision: should I get an Apple IIc or the flashy new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_PCjr\" target=\"_blank\">IBM PCjr<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>From late 1983 to early 1984, the press hyped the PCjr to absurd proportions, which set IBM&#8217;s consumer machine up for a mighty fall not too long after its introduction (IBM withdrew it from the market within a year of its release).  The Apple IIc, on the other hand, was one of Apple&#8217;s more successful products of the era.  Apple won the battle, but IBM won the war with the PC line overall.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;or did they?)<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Personal Computing, October 1984, front cover ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  It&#8217;s 1984, and you can only buy one computer: an IBM PCjr or an Apple IIc.  Which one will you choose and why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shades of Tasha Yar If you were shopping for a home PC in 1984, you were bound to face this decision: should I get an Apple IIc or the flashy new IBM PCjr? From late 1983 to early 1984, the press hyped the PCjr to absurd proportions, which set IBM&#8217;s consumer machine up for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}