IBM PCjr w/640k of RAM...ran everything a PC would (Score 1)

They get a bad rap, mostly because of the lousy keyboard that came with the early models...but they fixed the keyboard (real keys instead of chicklets...and still wireless!) and it was a great machine. I had the sidecars on mine for parallel port, but also added a Tecmar jrCaptain with an extra 512k of RAM bringing it up to 640k, which was more than my dad's office machines! It ran Lotus 1-2-3 fine, and anything else I could throw at it. Plus, it had 16 color graphics before EGA was even available (and when it finally was, an EGA card cost as much as an entire PCjr!)...great games, too. The only problem was lack of expansion space, not that many of us could afford harddrives anyway (5 1/4", full height 10MB in my Compaq Plus! 8 pounds of harddrive). But you were fine as long as you didn't mind swapping diskettes all the time... Great machine, very under-rated...