I was installing Model 60's and 80's at executive desks, model 55SX's at
secretaries desks and doing a lot of Model 80's as Novell servers -
these were in American Express, Chase and others. I remember we setup
an IBM SP-1 in Moody's connected to a Sanyo-Eicon storage array (pre-EMC
days) IBM's were DEFINITELY huge in financial banking circles.
The real key was always well documenting the MCA card placements and
ALWAYS keeping all of the driver disks in an envelope inside of the
cover of the machines so that any kind of work that had to happen - you
always had the drivers files for the hardware installed.
I saw OS/2 Program Manager (I think v1.1) for the first time in a
special setup where we doing for American Express along with Compaq on
its latest Proliant Servers, a 3rd party company had 2 of them in a
custom metal case and they were running as a multi-processor system
(essentially 2 separate systems running as one) with OS/2 on it. I
remember also I think it was Groliers Encyclopedia was the first time we
hooked up a CD-ROM to a server and what a HUGE disapoint when the app
ran and it was just nothing be text, no images, and such - we all had
this perception that the CD-ROM was going to bring so much multimedia
instantly to the PC - a little too wishful thinking too early on ;-)
I had always thought OS/2 was a far superior and far more stable OS
compared for Win 95 and WinNT 3 But still loved Netware far more :-)
Curt
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Feb 1, 2007, at 6:41 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
And, just to beat the beehive a little with the
definition of flop -
note how many people and webpages refer to the IBM PS/2 line as a
flop. For a flop, they sure made a bundle of dough from them...
In reference to my response to OS/2 having been "stillborn"...PS/2s
were also HUGE in the banking industry. Absolutely huge.
-Dave
--Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL