Having owned all three of these; I grew up in an IBM house hold but later on I had two different Tandy 1000 series PCs (EX and the bastardized TX which had an 8

Having owned all three of these; I grew up in an IBM house hold but later on I had two different Tandy 1000 series PCs (EX and the bastardized TX which had an 80286 on a XT board). We had a PC from early days complete with the large hard bound manuals, single sided diskettes, and text only. Now the regardless of processor the PCjr was seriously impacted in that that the keyboard interrupt was not there but actually had to be handled by the processor. See https://www.brutman.com/PCjr/pcjr_keyboard_handling.html https://www.brutman.com/PCjr/pcjr_keyboard_handling.html for a good description of what this incurred. (now for the rambling part) The Tandy was great for their 16 color hack and better sound which made games so much more enjoyable. (star flight being my favorite game ever and it used two 360k diskettes for a persistent environment) fwiw, even before dedicated graphics we had cool games. Even Wizardry which I had on my Apple was available for the PC and I played it with the ASCII character set being used to create the halls in 3D (think plus sign, bars, and minus signs). All the text based games many reminisce about are from this era