New OS from IBM
Nov 17, 2022 18:50:15 #
Nov 17, 2022 20:06:59 #
Nov 17, 2022 20:32:22 #
TriX wrote:
Building on the worldwide success of OS2… (note the date)
Is this a real document? I am going to do some checking. Result: Sounds like it died in 2001 and never made it to compete with MS Windows 11, Apple Mac or i(device) virtual reality.
Nov 17, 2022 21:09:24 #
lamiaceae wrote:
Is this a real document? I am going to do some checking. Result: Sounds like it died in 2001 and never made it to compete with MS Windows 11, Apple Mac or i(device) virtual reality.
This joke was making the rounds in IT in the 80s. For all their great contributions, IBM picked the losing technology a number of times. Like Beta, it was often superior technology, but the market thought otherwise: OS2 vs Windows, Token Ring vs Ethernet, SSA vs FibreChannel… I was there in ‘64, trained on the System 360 - their shiny new real computer (as opposed to a “business machine”).
Nov 17, 2022 21:11:09 #
TriX wrote:
Sort of like OS2…
Never used it.
That I know of.
Nov 17, 2022 21:21:02 #
Longshadow wrote:
Never used it.
That I know of.
That I know of.
My neighbor, who was an IBM mid level SW development manager, brought me his company issued laptop which was running OS2 and asked me to put a Microsoft OS on it 🙀.
Nov 17, 2022 21:22:39 #
TriX wrote:
My neighbor, who was an IBM mid level SW development manager, brought me his company issued laptop which was running OS2 and asked me to put a Microsoft OS on it 🙀.
Ahhhhh.. Hmmmm.....
Yea, I went from DOS to Windows.
Nov 17, 2022 21:45:02 #
TriX wrote:
This joke was making the rounds in IT in the 80s. For all their great contributions, IBM picked the losing technology a number of times. Like Beta, it was often superior technology, but the market thought otherwise: OS2 vs Windows, Token Ring vs Ethernet, SSA vs FibreChannel… I was there in ‘64, trained on the System 360 - their shiny new real computer (as opposed to a “business machine”).
Wow, '64. I was only ten years old then. I have heard of System 360 for some reason connected to Main frame and or Mini Systems before the days of MicroComuting. I did learn a little FORTRAN, BASIC, and COBAL during the Seventies in college. I was a biology major so they were just extra fun classes. The first PC I owned was a Gateway i486 DX4-66 or something like that with DOS 6.21 and Windows 3.11. A joke compared to my current Win 10 Dell tower.
Nov 17, 2022 22:10:41 #
lamiaceae wrote:
Wow, '64. I was only ten years old then. I have heard of System 360 for some reason connected to Main frame and or Mini Systems before the days of MicroComuting. I did learn a little FORTRAN, BASIC, and COBAL during the Seventies in college. I was a biology major so they were just extra fun classes. The first PC I owned was a Gateway i486 DX4-66 or something like that with DOS 6.21 and Windows 3.11. A joke compared to my current Win 10 Dell tower.
An IBM OS/360 is I what I learned FORTRAN on.....
//FWCLG1972.......
I feel old.....
My first of about 14 languages.
I still use 3.5 of them.
Nov 18, 2022 08:13:40 #
Nov 18, 2022 08:29:15 #
What surprises me is the date. I would have expected a notice like this to come out on April 1, 1985.
Nov 18, 2022 08:41:24 #
ddgm wrote:
I think I still have a set of OS2 3 1/2" floppies.
Yup! Only 35 diskettes.
Nov 18, 2022 08:52:27 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Yup! Only 35 diskettes.
Were those disks 720s probably?
Nov 18, 2022 09:01:47 #
Longshadow wrote:
Were those disks 720s probably?
Were those disks 720s probably?
Nope they are 1.44MB. See the 2 holes? One hole is for write protect the other to indicate that it's 1.44MB.
Picture is the 720KB. It's formatted for the Mac so it's 800KB but it can be reformatted for the PC and it's 720KB.
The 720KB as in this picture is DD (Double Density) the 1.44 is HD (High Density).
Obviously Double is not High.
Nov 18, 2022 09:13:13 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Nope they are 1.44MB. See the 2 holes? One hole is for write protect the other to indicate that it's 1.44MB.
Picture is the 720KB. It's formatted for the Mac so it's 800KB but it can be reformatted for the PC and it's 720KB.
The 720KB as in this picture is DD (Double Density) the 1.44 is HD (High Density).
Obviously Double is not High.
Picture is the 720KB. It's formatted for the Mac so it's 800KB but it can be reformatted for the PC and it's 720KB.
The 720KB as in this picture is DD (Double Density) the 1.44 is HD (High Density).
Obviously Double is not High.
Thanks! I forgot about the second hole!
(Been a while....
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