Yeah, I had a similar experience. But I was laughing at the OS/2 proponent because (a) my Mac had 8MB of RAM and unlike his OS/2 machine I could print to the network printers.
IBMs big mistake was thinking that Microsoft didn't have the marketing clout to sink OS/2 in the first year.
As you've made this a pissing competition again, my big mistake was assuming I could use an IPhone for longer than an hour in cold weather. Fortunately I had a proper phone with me as well
(My background - I worked for 25 years at IBM; 16 in the IBM PC Co pretty much from its start up to the Lenovo selloff, and most of those as a PC Technical Product Manager. I spent several months in the Boca Raton labs, where OS/2 was developed, co-authoring the "Red Book" ready for the launch).
IMHO IBM's big mistake was linking OS/2 with PS/2, which was announced the same day. Salesman were always driven by hardware numbers and they saw OS/2 as a tool to drive PS/2 sales. But customers didn't really want to switch OS's, or to Micro Channel - they certainly didn't want both at the same time. But the Sales position (in spite of us techies arguing otherwise) was that one really needed the other.
MS were pretty neutral for the first year or so of OS/2's life.
Actually, they were neutral until about 1990 - when they launched Windows as the system to use for low end machines - and even then they were pushing OS/2 for higher end machines (I went to the London launch).
They were surprised how well it went, and that's when they started pulling back from OS/2.
It's an interesting point - which battery technologies still work in the cold.
The initial PS/2 range had:
Model 50 - 286 Model 60 - 286 Model 70 - 386 Model P70 - 386 Model 80 - 386
Then: Model 55 - 386 Model 90 - 486 Model 95 - 486
And eventually: Model 25 - 8086 Model 30 - 8086
There were a few other odd ones.
They all do, just not as well.
Reminds me (and to get vaguely back to the main remit of the NG) that I still have a copy of OS/2 on floppies up in the bedroom/office/scrap heap of computing dreams.
I always intended make a cabinet for it with the traditional "In Case of Emergency Break Glass" sign on the front, but never got round to it.
Who knows, one day I might try and load it onto some really, really old kit.
Cheers
Dave R
And which screens.
The problem I normally run into is that a tool might do what I want - but it's invariably bundled with 97 other things that I don't want, too.
It's better with an animation.
I still wish I'd kept mine; I offloaded it when I moved overseas. I think it had an unexpanded motherboard - i.e. 64K of memory - but I did have a couple of memory expansion cards for it. I did also have the luxury of floppy drives... I've actually never seen or heard of a 5150 that made use of the tape port, but I presume someone was that insane!
cheers
Jules
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