The IBM PCjr could turn up in the UK with a new keyboard.

Since the launch of the PCjr there has been widespread criticism of the keyboard that IBM supplies. The keys themselves are rubber-domed, and the layout lacks the PC's ten function keys.

Pressure is building on IBM in the US to rectify these shortcomings, and some industry analysts are predicting that an improved keyboard will be ready in the near future. One magazine editor reports that his review machine asked whether the keyboard being used had the standard 62 keys or 83.