Hello All,
I a new subscriber from just a few days ago, and I have spent more hours
than I care to admit to going through all of the emails in the online
archives.
In past lives, I spent a lot of time with OS/2, and even though I don't
spend as much time as I used to with it, OS/2 comments still catch my
attention.
Anyway, to get to the point, I caught this thread (bottom) from 2008
which generated a bunch of comments.
The thread was briefly revived in early 2009.
If there was ever a final fall out from the thread, I somehow missed it.
Was there a version of OS/2 for CPU's other than X86 or PPC?
What was ultimately found to be on the tape?
Thank you,
Jerry
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Yes, you read that correctly.
I have in my possession a TK-50 tape for the PDP-11 system which
contains none other than
OS/2 operating system.
Many people have claimed this never existed. But I have the tape!
I had done a directory dump of it and can supply it.
One other person who's checked the directory listing has said it is
authentic.
I'm not sure what to do with it, and I believe IBM made OS/2 open
source, so technically it should be "free"
of it's chains
maybe someone can turn it into something useful, or just run it and have
the most unique PDP on the planet, I don't know... whatever :)
anyhow, it's a really weird bit of computing history, and I'd hate for
it to be lost. it should be in a museum :)