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Actually, that is incorrect.
There are a LOT of people who still collect the older workstation
PS/2's. Some places have entire sites dedicated to just that. A lot
of chatter on the ibm.ps/2 google groups is around workstations and
not servers for ps/2. There is also an entire google group that is
active that discusses the various uses of OS/2 and some bullshit
knockoff known as e-comstation (often referred to by IBM'ers as e-con
- as in conning you out of your money).
comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware 'main one for hardware'(don't use the
comp.sys.ibm.ps2 as it is often just a bulletin board for spam and
there are no real posts on it most of the time).
comp.os.os2 (piles of sub groups under it, personally, I use .misc).
As it stands, I use an IBM ps/2 8570 and an 8557SLC (thank you fellow
classiccmp'er) on my TR network now and they can talk to the outside
world over a transparent bridge/switch to the Ethernet side that goes
to my broadband router. Yes, lots of classic and working perfectly
well stuff involved there. I even know a fellow who at 1 point, had 5
or 6 ps/2 workstations arrayed in Linux as a BeoWulf cluster (I don't
even think I spelled that right, then again I don't use a cluster myself).
-John Boffemmyer IV
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