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 Message 211 
 Jeff Binkley to John Kelly 
 RE: UMM.. PCBOARD NATURAL 
 29 Dec 13 04:31:00 
 
JK>MSGID: 2:362/6 00080b7e
JK>-> Maybe you could find an OS/2 Warp 4 installation kit = 2 CDs
JK>-> somewhere.

JK>If somebody makes ISO images and posts an Emule link, maybe I can ...


JK>-> There are however a couple of fixpaks to be considered but I do
JK>-> have them. So far I haven't needed them.

JK>Those too.


JK>-> JK>The only solution would be to run old hardware, CPU <= 350mhz.
JK>-> But JK>that's hard to find nowdays, even on Ebay.

JK>-> That is a good solution. The OS/2 Warp 5 operating systems
JK>-> requires very little processor power and occupies only 120 Mb on
JK>-> the HD. That means that you have plenty of space even in a 1 Gb
JK>-> partition.

JK>Not so good really. Motherboards of that vintage are 20 years old
JK>now. That exceeds the life expectancy of the electrolytic capacitors
JK>onboard. They can be replaced at small cost, if you can do the job
JK>yourself, but it requires steady hands and good eyesight.

I solved the problem by running OS/2 WARP as a guest operating system 
under VMware's VM workstation product.  I've got OS/2 WARP 3 running 
PCBoard sitting on a Windows 2008 R2 server as a guest VM.  I no longer 
have to worry about hardware.  I only support telnet access.


Jeff

CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999 
Hope and change = $1T deficit and 10%+ unemployment .....

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