20 Feb
2004
20 Feb
'04
9:13 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Girnius" <thedm(a)sunflower.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: OS/2 Warp question - MPTS?
Laptops were never well supported for OS/2 even the
IBM thinkpads, if you
can get a 3com nic they still have OS2 drivers on their downloads. PCMCIA
was a fledgeling technology when warp 3.0 was out, if you really wanna
play
with it, try it on a desktop with an old 3com nic and
it will work great,
laptop..hmm not sure it would work easily even if you found the right
driver,.... unless of course it was a thinkpad with a 3com pcmcia card.
If you really get bored, got to IBM's knowledge base in the thinkpad
section
and search for OS2, it's amazing that a company
that makes both products
makes them work so bad together.
Hope this helps, and if nothing else, you have fun, that is why we do all
this crazy stuff :)
Yup, that's why we do it. This all started when I tried to find a DOS
browser for a bit of speed but none of them could ID my video card on my
donated laptop. OS/2 always interested me, and I think I will load it on one
of my IBM desktops just to get it online.
Does anyone remember the demo OS/2 CD that IBM sent out? It had a lot of
video on it plus some version of OS/2. The thing I remember most is that all
the videos looked very similar to a cheap porno flick. The main character,
the guy, had this very dramatic Van Dyke beard/moustache and the woman whose
house he was visiting to set up OS/2 was, to say the least, a fine figure of
a woman. I remember thinking that there was no way this product would ever
work if this was the kind of promotion they were giving it. I should put one
of the segments up on my site for fun.
Thanks again everyone.
BM