
Re: Thank you for the Retro Computing Series this Week
Firstly, thank you for this series - you just reminded me of a sliding doors moment between OS/2 and WNT.
From what I can vaguely remember we were an IBM shop with AS/400 and 5250 terminals. I was new and had only used Windows PCs up until then but it became my job to integrate the AS/400 with desktop WforWG 3.11. IBM were pushing for us to use OS/2 - boss ordered new server and copy of os/2 landed on my desk. Spent about 3 days trying to install OS/2 - called IBm support etc. no joy.
Happened to buy a pc mag that had NT3.51 CD on it. Thought what the hell let’s give it a go - almost straight away NT said that the network card was not functioning!
Swapped network card out for a known good one, and NT was up and running. SNA server soon went on and my career started!
Always wondered what would have happened had IBM put in more usable error messages!