Greetings from Australia

[longski96]

Recently I have had a bout of nostalgia and started researching the IBM PCjr, which was my first PC.

I grew up using one of these as a child, in Australia. As you can imagine, I was surprised to learn that apparently they were never released here! As my Dad worked at IBM at the time, I have a couple of ideas.

A rare and/or unofficial release
Some mod applied by IBM/3rd party hardware engineers to get them to work in Australia
Less likely - I have no recollection of a 240v > 120v converter or transformer being used. I moved this PC around a number of times and it plugged directly into the mains.

Either way due to a lack of and/or no units here, I've started buying parts/units from the US/Candana. Almost there apart from a blown power supply and cracked front monitor during transit.

[Kablamabam]

I heard there is another version of the PCjr called the PCjx. From what I understand it's basically the same hardware in a black formfactor. I was also led to believe that this was the model available in Japan, Austrailia and New Zealand. I've seen pictures but never one in person. Have you ever seen or heard or such a machine?

Good luck on getting what you need. Would love to read about any progress and see pictures too .