Subj : Re: Am I the only one dum
To   : vorlon
From : ACMEBBS
Date : Tue Jun 07 2022 01:22:00

-=> On Tue Jun 7 10:08:00 2022, vorlon wrote to ACMEBBS <=-

 > Believe I still have it packed away in the shrink wrap.
 > I still have the Warp4 CD, but that's it. If I had some PC hardware from
 > that time, I'd be able to run it. But the things IBM did made it fail to
 > install on newer hardware. I've not tried the new versions (Ecomm/Arca).
 > One being the cost for the product, and the second being that I've now
 > moved onto other OS's. (Linux, and &^%&^Doze for client support).

Same here. Do have to say I had a subscription for 2 years to Arca and was MUCH improved from the Warp 4 days.

 >  AC> For that matter...would've paid a small fee...if needed...since I
 >  AC> had bought a non-Win-OS/2 copy of Warp 3.0 from Wal-Mart in the
 >  AC> mid-90's.
 > I never had to pay for OS/2, it was a requirement to learn how it
 > worked/install at a place I worked at.. I started with Warp3.

Remembered having ordered the 2.1 floppies from IBM for free to test it. Didn't have the hardware...so just used the floppies. When I did get the money/hardware...ended up getting Warp 3 on CD.
 
A temp job I had for a day or two had me doing a move for Ford to another location. Set up their systems in a new office & all of them were running Token Ring with OS/2. Getting all the workstations set up/running without any of the Windows issues blew my mind...so got a copy of it when I could do so.

 > It was a joy to run, and very stable. It ran my BBS system for many
 > years.

That was 1 thing I was most shocked about...compared to Windows. Never had any of the BS I would run into with older versions of Windows.

.... If you pull the wings off a fly, does it become a walk? 
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