Editing IBM PCjr (section)

===Discontinuation===
By January 1985, IBM had sold an estimated 240,000-275,000 PCjrs, 200,000 of which were sold in the fourth quarter of 1984. When the discounts ended, however, sales decreased abruptly{{r|kennedy19850514}}<ref name="pollack19850320">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/20/business/ibm-drops-pcjr-production.html | title=I.B.M. Drops PCjr Production | access-date=February 25, 2011 | author=Pollack, Andrew | date=March 20, 1985 | work=The New York Times}}</ref>{{r|time19850401}} and inventories began to stack up again.{{r|ap19850321}} By this time, three PCjr-specific magazines had ended their publications{{r|bartimo19841210}} with significant losses.<ref name="tuller19861116">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/16/business/abc-s-axe-wielding-publisher-robert-g-burton-championing-print-in-a-tv-world.html?pagewanted=all |title=ABC'S AXE-WIELDING PUBLISHER: ROBERT G. BURTON; Championing Print in a TV World |last=Tuller |first=David |date=November 16, 1986 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> IBM was unable to meet the demand for its new [[PC AT]] business microcomputer, but the home-computer market was in decline{{r|sanger19850118}}{{r|time19850401}} and the company was likely unable to make a sufficient profit when selling the PCjr at a discount.{{r|pollack19850120}}{{r|pollack19850320}}{{r|ap19850321}}{{r|time19850401}}

IBM discontinued the PCjr on March 19, 1985, stating that "The home market didn't expand to the degree I.B.M. and many observers thought it would". The surprise decision{{r|pollack19850320}}<ref name="time19850401">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,964850,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625185216/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C964850%2C00.html |archive-date=June 25, 2009 |title=Kicking Junior Out of the Family |access-date=February 23, 2011 |author1=Castro, Janice |author2=Bob Buderi |author3=Thomas McCarroll |date=April 1, 1985 |magazine=Time |url-status=dead }}</ref> by IBM's CEO [[John Akers]]{{r|sanger19850707}} astounded software developers, some of which only made PCjr products.{{r|kennedy19850514}} Rumored to have 100,000 to 400,000 unsold PCjrs{{r|kennedy19850514}}<ref name="steele19850709">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SprPDrQRvM8C&pg=PA34 | title=COMDEX: Nothing New Under the Georgia Sun | work=PC Magazine | date=July 9, 1985 | access-date=October 28, 2013 | author=Steele, William | pages=34}}</ref>{{r|mintzer19860114}} despite not having ordered new microprocessors from Intel since summer 1984,<ref name="iw19850415">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zC4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13 | title=Death of the PCjr: Insiders Foresaw It | work=InfoWorld | date=April 15, 1985 | access-date=February 4, 2015 | pages=13 | editor=McCarthy, Michael}}</ref> the company offered large discounts to its employees<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/19/business/ibm-offers-a-pcjr-deal.html | title=I.B.M. Offers a PCjr Deal | access-date=February 25, 2011 | date=September 19, 1985 | work=The New York Times}}</ref> and consumers. Inventory remained through Christmas 1985, and IBM used discounts as well as radio and full-page print ads to try to sell off remaining stocks.<ref name="mintzer19860114">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hoPbDSDNLTQC&pg=PA75 | title=News in Brief | work=PC | date=January 14, 1986 | access-date=January 21, 2015 | pages=38 | editor=Mintzer, Jane}}</ref>