{"id":40,"date":"2005-12-07T23:19:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T04:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2006-04-08T21:54:12","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T02:54:12","slug":"an-os2-christmas-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/40\/an-os2-christmas-miracle","title":{"rendered":"An OS\/2 Christmas Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up groggy and cranky this morning, thinking about all the trouble I had setting up Windows 95 on one of my machines last night.  The main problem with Windows 95 is that <em>it&#8217;s just not cool<\/em>.  No matter how you slice it, it reeks of squareness.  &#8220;What I really need,&#8221; I thought, &#8220;is a totally cool way to run my computer.&#8221;  But after some hard thinking I realized that such a computing product doesn&#8217;t exist.  I sat down for breakfast, resigned to the fact that I would be stuck with Windows 95 forever.  I didn&#8217;t get five minutes into a bagel when the doorbell rung.  It was David, my friendly neighborhood postman with a package for me.  &#8220;What ever could be inside?&#8221; I wondered, as I tore into the box with excited impatience.  I pushed aside the layers of bubble wrap to reveal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/os2cool\/os2_warp3_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/os2cool\/os2_warp3_small.jpg\" alt=\"OS\/2 Warp 3 Box Cover\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh boy.&#8221; I thought with disappointment, &#8220;Another archaic copy of OS\/2 for my collection. Whee.&#8221;  I was about to set the box down on a shelf and forget about it when my eyes meandered over to the upper left corner of the box cover.  &#8220;Whoa!  What&#8217;s this&#8230;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/os2cool\/os2_cool_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/os2cool\/os2_cool_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Totally Cool Way to Run Your Computer\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holy mother of goat cheese!&#8221; I screamed, nearly dropping the box from my hands.  It was as if IBM had been looking into the future and <em>totally<\/em> reading my mind all those years ago when they released OS\/2 Warp, the apparent mother of all operating systems.  I flipped the box over onto its back to read more: &#8220;The new 32-bit, multitasking, multimedia, Internet-accessed, crash-protected, Windows friendly, totally cool way to run your computer.&#8221;  Now <em>that<\/em> was what I needed to hear.  No more Windows 95 crap for me.  I rushed to install the system on my machine and experienced the pure operational bliss that is OS\/2 Warp Version 3.  It was a Christmas Miracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up groggy and cranky this morning, thinking about all the trouble I had setting up Windows 95 on one of my machines last night. The main problem with Windows 95 is that it&#8217;s just not cool. No matter how you slice it, it reeks of squareness. &#8220;What I really need,&#8221; I thought, &#8220;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-collecting","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-recent-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}