On-Topic -ish? MCA and OS/2 questions...

[David V. Corbin]

I would go with OS/2. There are so many boxes running Linux....

[just my opinion of course.... I did a bunch of OS/2 work in the early to
mid 1990s'] 

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org 
>>> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of John 
>>> Boffemmyer IV
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:28 AM
>>> To: cctech at classiccmp.org
>>> Subject: On-Topic -ish? MCA and OS/2 questions...
>>> 
>>> Looking at possibly tossing OS/2 on a PS/2 MCA machine I 
>>> have (both over 10 years, discontinued and of interest, at 
>>> least to me). The machine is a model 8570 with an add-on 
>>> scsi card to an external enclosure with 4gb of storage 
>>> (various size drives) and a 2x scsi cd-rom. this mca 
>>> machine however, only has 1.44mb floppy support and a built 
>>> in esdi 60mb hard drive (system doesn't want to work with 
>>> the scsi, even when the esdi drive is removed). the system 
>>> has 6-8mb ram (not currently sure, didn't look last time it 
>>> was booted) and a 386dx 20 with a 16/4 db9 token ring nic 
>>> and built in xga video. was thinking either os/2 warp of 
>>> some version or linux. any ideas or suggestions as beating 
>>> away at it alone seems to net me nothing much lately?
>>> -John Boffemmyer IV
>>> ps: i ended up getting that uSpeed Fast88 thingy an a 
>>> digital 4mb 32/36 dram module when i got the lot of stuff 
>>> from vax9000, if anyone has a use for it, email me off list 
>>> and it's yours as i have no idea what the uSpeed thing is 
>>> for and do not own any digital equipment. if you want, i'll 
>>> even include the 802.11b wireless pcmcia nic he put in the 
>>> lot as well. though, i don't have the external antennas for it.
>>> 
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