Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: Thin Client Pc To Run
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Thu Jan 15, 2026 08:15

Subject: Re: Thin Client Pc To Run Dos
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Subject: Re: Thin Client Pc To Run Dos
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-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 PF> It was an IBM PS/2 model 80, 13" CRT and a Model M keyboard running OS/2.
 PF> Connected to it was an IBM 4019laser printer. IBM "pointing device", a
 PF> heavy 2-button mechanical mouse.

 PF> That was the exact system I'd used at my first job - in 1991!

 Ni> That sounds like a fairly iconic early-mid 90s computer setup.  If I
 Ni> collected retro computers, I wouldn't mind having a setup like that.
 Ni> I've also thought it would be cool to have an old Amiga (maybe a 2000
 Ni> or a 3000).  I'd need to have room for a computer collection first..

They were great systems - Micro channel architecture, with a fast bus
ahead of its time. ESDI drives. Toolless construction, you could take
the entire thing apart with a coin.

We were running OS/2 2.1, sharing files over a Token-Ring LAN with an MS
LAN MAN file server and a Novell network, connecting to AS/400s over
Twinax, and doing it all when most people in the company were running
WordPerfect and 1-2-3 in DOS.

The only downside was an office full of Model M keyboards clacking
away...



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