Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:26:41PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/06/08 20:48, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > I remember my 386. It was an IBM PS/2 model 70-A21. It came with the
> > then-unherd of 120MB hard drive, MCA bus, and I put 4 MB ram into it,
> > running OS/2, IBM Fortran compiler (the reason I bought a computer in
> > the first place), WordPerfect 4.?, and AutoCad 11.
>
> Warp 3 was a wonderful OS. Presentation Manager was *really* slick,
> and formatting floppies while downloading a file at 14.4KBps was
> something that Win 3.1 could only dream of, and Win93 could only
> barely accomplish when the moon was full and the stars in proper
> alignment.
I never had Warp 3. I started with version 1.1 on the 386 and kept up
with the service packs. I convinced IBM to give me 2.? when I had to
get the 486. BTW, those IBM floppies from ~1990 still work.
OS/2 was my first OS. I had to learn Dos and Lotus-1-2-3 for school (on
their computer), but did everything at home on both computers on OS/2.
The 486 came with win 3.1. I only used it for a game that needed it
(Harpoon!) while the DOS games ran OK under OS/2 (but better under dos).
Once I had a Zip drive, I just installed Win onto the Zip drive (it
didn't know it could do it) and booted dos with a floppy.
It was certainly a bit of a switch to go from OS/2 to Potato (via a
short stint with RH 4-something).
>
> DOS-based BBSs still mandated you have one PC per modem, but OS/2
> was capable enough to run 6 or 8 modems at full speed.
I only had a 2400 modem but eventually move up to a 28.8.
Doug.
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