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IBM's attempt at competing with the original Apple II, the IBM Personal Computer, was a success. For a followup, it decided to enter the already-crowded 8-bit home computer market and compete against the Commodore Sixty Four and the Atari 8-Bit Computers with the IBM PCjr, which it released to much fanfare in 1983. The PCjr was deliberately made to be simple to put together, simple to use, and [...] [tvtropes.org]