OS/2 1.0

[Aoresteen]

Hi all!  I just found this site!  I started using computers in 1981 with a (drum roll!) ZX81 1k (then I got a 16k RAM pack, wow!).

I need to get copies of OS/2 ver 1.0.  I have 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.x, 3.x Warp, and 4.x Warp.

If anyone has a copy for sale or will make disk copies please let me know.   Thanks!

PS I'm currently deployed to Iraq and will be building my OS/2 box in Oct when I return.

Tony

[RedWolf]

Hi all!  I just found this site!  I started using computers in 1981 with a (drum roll!) ZX81 1k (then I got a 16k RAM pack, wow!).

I need to get copies of OS/2 ver 1.0.  I have 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.x, 3.x Warp, and 4.x Warp.

If anyone has a copy for sale or will make disk copies please let me know.   Thanks!

PS I'm currently deployed to Iraq and will be building my OS/2 box in Oct when I return.

Tony

Welcome to the forum, Aorsteen!

I have OS/2 v1.0, 2.0, 2.10, 3.0, the warps, and OS/2 Warp Server v4.52.  I'd be happy to email you OS/2 v1.0.  The archive I have of it has four disk images and totals 4.5 MB.  Just send me an email (the link is on the right bar of the main VC&G site), and I'll reply with the files.

Benj

[Aoresteen]

Thanks Benj!

A couple of days ago I recived a copy from another source.  I appreciate the offer. 

Will OS/2 1.0 install on a 386/486/Pentium system?  I recall somewhere that it would install only on a 286 machine.  Anyone load it up on an old Pentium system?

[sirpaul484]

I'm pretty sure that if it can run on a 286, it SHOULD run on a 386/486, possibly also a Pentium class machine.  Then again, I'm not absolutely sure, and it might have a few issues.

[RedWolf]

This page has some interesting anecdotes about running OS/2 1.0 on a Pentium III machine:

http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/history/os210/index.html

It says there that OS/2 1.0 only supports 32MB hard drive partitions, which might give you trouble when working with bigger disks.  It was recommended to run on an IBM AT, which used a 80286.

Good luck!  Let us know how it goes.

[Aoresteen]

Thanks RedWolf!

Good article.  I was working at Continental Bank in Chicago from 1985 to 1993 and we became a big OS/2 shop.  I remember seeing OS/2 1/0 loaded and running for the first time.  I was using a Mac Plus (we had only four Macs in the Bank - I had the first) at the time and I laughed.  When I asked "What OS/2 applications are there?" I got blank stares. Duh there were none.  A lot like using BeOS today - what apps are there?

Glad you mentioned the 32MB limit.  I knew about it but forgot.  When I partition up my harddrive I will make two 32mb partitions - one for OS/2 1.0 and one for DOS 3.1.

Thanks!

Tony

[RedWolf]

That's a cool story.  I would have laughed at OS/2 back then too.  Just out of curiosity, what has got you interested in OS/2 now?  Did anything in particular trigger your recent interest?

[Aoresteen]

I still write code for DOS.  I use Basic PDS 7.1 -  It's Microsoft compiled BASIC.  Very powerfull.  One technique I developed was to put everything in memory to avoid disk I/O lag time.  Sometimes I need lots more RAM than 640K but I don't want to deal with extended/expanded memory cludges.

PDS 7.1 will compile a protected mode executeable that runs under 0S/2.  So when all the bugs are killed and the code is ready to go under DOS, I expand the array statements and then compile to OS/2.  I then boot into OS/2 and run the app.  Runs fast!!!!!!!  I did this a lot in 1991-1993 - the only good use I had for OS/2.  It's memory management was always very good.

I have some old analysis programs that I want to run so I need to set up an OS/2 environment to run some text based apps that I have.