The scary part is that I use my XYwrite software on OS/2 Warp 4 almost EXCLUSIVELY for ALL my internal corporate memos and correspondence (for clients I just export as RTF or early versions of DOC) because I am so familiar with it. I am also so used to Lotus 123 macro programming that I am pretty sure I can use and make this IBM Model 80 OS/2 Warp 4 system last ANOTHER 30 years!
Hardware-wise, I've been replacing the chemical capacitors with ceramic ones on BOTH the power-supply AND the motherboard itself. The motherboard is EASY to update/fix because it is NOTHING like today's ultra-crowded, multi-layered, micro-component nightmares.
I've got a plentiful supply of RAM chips and I bought a bucket load of 64 gigabyte SCSI/ATAPI-based SSD's for really cheap so I will always have basic components available for replacement. AND I also bought lots of used HDTV 1080p displays with the XGA-compatible (1024 by 768 pixel) 15-pin analog connectors on them so the system will always have monitors. (again, I just replace the capacitors on them and the large interior LCD lamp with components I bought from base component suppliers)
I also have these external SCSI drives that burn my data onto a special type of metallic non-polymer 4.7 GB DVD-ROM media that is guaranteed to last 1000 years (i.e. was guaranteed for that long before they went bust!) by it's original manufacturer. I've got a LOT of them blank discs in well protected storage and since a lot of my data is only text files and small-size one megabyte or less JPEG images, my storage space is NOT an issue for onsite and offsite temp-controlled permanent archive and restore purposes! I've also got lots of power supply components.
Seriously! This Model 80 is SO WELL BUILT, I KNOW I can make it last until the Year 2050!
I ain't giving up my XYwrite, Lotus 123 and dBase-IV without a hard fight! I run my whole life off those old things! AND I have a TONNE of IBM REXX-based command/batch files that do all sorts indexing, searching, and processing of personal and business documents, multi-language text and other computer-based records and long-lived databases!
Plus I do all my on-line text-only based news, sports, politics and gossip aggregation that creates my OWN version of the PDB (President's Daily Briefing) of ANYTHING that I consider important from hundreds of websites which uses a custom-built HTML-5 only version of Firefox compiled for Warp-4 that scours a list of MANY websites and news sources! I even have a custom PDF reader/writer with JPEG image and PostScript support on OS/2 Warp that stores my text and graphic documents in the simplest manner possible designed for FAST indexing, search and display !!!
I ain't throwing all that long-term familiarity, hard work and PRECISION fine-tuning away just because of the introduction of Windows-10 up to to Windows-2525 or MacOS-ZZ Cretin Edition !!!
NO WAY HOZAY !!!!!
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AND for those of you wondering, I'm part of a legacy computer preservation hobbyist group that like to repair, upgrade and use old computer gear. SOME of the club members even still use their old IBM PC-ATs, IBM RISC-6000's, MicroVaxes, DECstations and Sun Workstations for their DAILY work and/or research because they are ALL old fuddy-duddies who happen to like things to STAY the way they are in their computing systems! They DON"T WANT to change over to Windows 10 or MacOS or Linux or Android/iOS! They want their old-style DOS, THEOS, VAX VMS, AIX, Solaris or OS/2 with the simplified graphics interface or highly-tuned command line interface !!!
They TEND to be very long-time COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN, PROLOG, LISP, C/C++, PASCAL or ADA programmers that still do cutting edge modern scientific research ranging from plasmadynamics and nuclear physics to astronomy to gene therapy BUT they want to stay with their old-style toolsets!
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I personally use almost EVERY modern and legacy operating system and hardware configuration under the sun BUT I still REALLY LIKE my early 1990's-era IBM Model 80 x386 running OS/2 Warp and my REALLY SIMPLE word processor, spreadsheet and database programs that I have been so familiar with since the 1980's!
Why should I have to give up all that familiarity and time learning all those macros and batch files?
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