Guess what i found in my stack of Floppies

[PlatinumGold]

I found an original copy of OS/2 Warp. i actually paid for it, hardly used it tho.

 

[iwearnosox]

Stale :cookie;

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I found an original copy of OS/2 Warp. i actually paid for it, hardly used it tho.

It musta been the ads w/ the European women that convinced you to buy it. The only problem is that you would NEVER want to date them. 😛

 

[PlatinumGold]

actually, OS/2 Warp was a GREAT OS, too bad it had no support.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I found an original copy of OS/2 Warp. i actually paid for it, hardly used it tho.

I had an original copy still SEALED of Windows 3.0 a couple of years ago, but i lost it in the move 🙁

But at least i still have my original sealed Pentium 100 (retail box).

 

[mikebb]

I actually am running OS/2 version 4, on both a desktop PC and on my laptop via MS Virtual PC. We use it for some of our legacy systems at work (nobody's writing viruses for OS/2 so it's actually a good platform to use.) We're slowly moving away from it though, since it's getting harder and harder to support.

 

[PlatinumGold]

OS/2 is very very similar to Windows NT 4.0 right?

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: Hardcore

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I found an original copy of OS/2 Warp. i actually paid for it, hardly used it tho.

I had an original copy still SEALED of Windows 3.0 a couple of years ago, but i lost it in the mail 🙁

But at least i still have my original sealed Pentium 100 (retail box).

What exactly do you mean by you had a sealed copy of windows, but you lost it in the mail? As in you had it sitting around and decided "man I'm not really getting my money's worth out of this OS...Lets put it in the mail and let it score some frequent flier miles"?

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: DaiShan

Originally posted by: Hardcore

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I found an original copy of OS/2 Warp. i actually paid for it, hardly used it tho.

I had an original copy still SEALED of Windows 3.0 a couple of years ago, but i lost it in the mail 🙁

But at least i still have my original sealed Pentium 100 (retail box).

What exactly do you mean by you had a sealed copy of windows, but you lost it in the mail? As in you had it sitting around and decided "man I'm not really getting my money's worth out of this OS...Lets put it in the mail and let it score some frequent flier miles"?

LOL i meant MOVE.

 

[PoPPeR]

i remember when I paid some guy $5 at computer camp to make me a copy of the original Worms. I didn't know what zip files were, or how to use pkunzip at the time, and ended up throwing it away

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
I found an original copy of OS/2 Warp. i actually paid for it, hardly used it tho.

I have copies of the windows 3.1 floppies...i've been looking around, i want to get all of the original floppies leading up to 3.1, 😛

(i actually still run one machine with win 3.1, hehe)

 

[xcript]

I still have a sealed box containing Visual Basic 2.0 on 5.25" floppies.

Requirements are: Windows 3.0+, 1MB of available memory, and a mouse. :Q

 

[PlatinumGold]

hmmm, wonder if OS/2 Warp will run on Virtual PC.

 

[Praetor]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
hmmm, wonder if OS/2 Warp will run on Virtual PC.

Originally posted by: mikebb
I actually am running OS/2 version 4, on both a desktop PC and on my laptop via MS Virtual PC. We use it for some of our legacy systems at work (nobody's writing viruses for OS/2 so it's actually a good platform to use.) We're slowly moving away from it though, since it's getting harder and harder to support.

hmmmmm... If memory serves, I've managed to get Warp to run in VMWare, just for giggles.

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: Praetor

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
hmmm, wonder if OS/2 Warp will run on Virtual PC.

Originally posted by: mikebb
I actually am running OS/2 version 4, on both a desktop PC and on my laptop via MS Virtual PC. We use it for some of our legacy systems at work (nobody's writing viruses for OS/2 so it's actually a good platform to use.) We're slowly moving away from it though, since it's getting harder and harder to support.

hmmmmm... If memory serves, I've managed to get Warp to run in VMWare, just for giggles.

No way!

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
OS/2 is very very similar to Windows NT 4.0 right?

OS/2 was years ahead of Windows NT. NT arguably wasn't really mature until Windows 2000 was released (NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 at the earliest).

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
OS/2 is very very similar to Windows NT 4.0 right?

OS/2 was years ahead of Windows NT. NT arguably wasn't really mature until Windows 2000 was released (NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 at the earliest).

OS/2 and NT was developed together initially, or that's the way i always heard it, but IBM wanted to use it as a Desktop OS and MS wanted to use it as a Server OS.

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
OS/2 is very very similar to Windows NT 4.0 right?

OS/2 was years ahead of Windows NT. NT arguably wasn't really mature until Windows 2000 was released (NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 at the earliest).

OS/2 and NT was developed together initially, or that's the way i always heard it, but IBM wanted to use it as a Desktop OS and MS wanted to use it as a Server OS.

When IBM and MS were partners, OS/2 was to be the high-end workstation OS whereas Windows was the consumer desktop OS. They collaborated, but the two projects were mostly independent.

In typical MS fashion, their developers started moving Windows more towards OS/2 and the two companies eventually divorced in the early 1990s.

My point is that it always takes MS three releases to make a "good" product, and arguably NT didn't catch up to OS/2 for years. Of course, by then it was irrelevant anyhow due to the blowout success of Win95. IBM had rights to Windows 3.x but no rights to Win32. As such, OS/2 would thereafter be an incompatible niche operating system. IIRC, OS/2 2.x sold pretty well for its day. It would have sold better if MS hadn't strongarmed OEMs.

 

[IgorFL]

Originally posted by: PoPPeR
i remember when I paid some guy $5 at computer camp to make me a copy of the original Worms. I didn't know what zip files were, or how to use pkunzip at the time, and ended up throwing it away

hehe What the heck did they teach you at computer camp, if they didn't cover zip files? 😉

 

[PoPPeR]

Originally posted by: IgorFL

Originally posted by: PoPPeR
i remember when I paid some guy $5 at computer camp to make me a copy of the original Worms. I didn't know what zip files were, or how to use pkunzip at the time, and ended up throwing it away

hehe What the heck did they teach you at computer camp, if they didn't cover zip files? 😉

honestly I don't know. It was in Santa Clara, California, and all I remember is playing basketball all day and thinking Doom tournaments were the coolest thing I'd ever witnessed. I think they taught us some visual basic.

 

[creedog]

Funny you bring up os2. Found out today a new customer will be transitioning to our web product. They are running mozilla as their browser on their os2 machines, not sure how well it will work. Wonder what version of mozilla they are running?