Casey Bralla via plug on 25 Apr 2024 15:50:34 -0700


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[PLUG] OS/2 Warp 4 Boot Disks Wanted


For the past few months, I've allowed my OCD to focus on retro-computing.  I've bought an Apple IIe from eBay, and just recently got an Osborne 1.

I've also been setting up "museum pieces" on some of my old hardware.  I've got Windows 98 running on an old Pentium III laptop, and would like to get OS/2 Warp running on an old desktop.

But...

In a paroxysm of 5S'ing a few months ago, I threw away almost all my old 3.5" floppies.  Just like the 5S rules say, "you'll have to buy back 10% of what you throw away",  now find I need the 2 OS/2 Warp boot floppies that I trashed.  Luckily, I kept the CD-ROM, but don't have the floppies.  I've tried to pirate them from the internet, but can't seem to get them to boot on my old hardware. This may be because the pirated copies are bad, or because my hardware (old that it is) is still too modern for OS/2.  Without boot disks that are known to be good, I can't really figure out what is happening.

Does anybody have these 2 floppies?  If so, could you make a "dd" image of them for me?  (Note: I legally purchased OS/2 many years ago, so this is not piracy.  In fact, I can remember tying up the phone line overnight in the late 90's to download a major OS/2 update to put them on 5.25" floppies...  I think it was something like 17 disks. It took hours of long distance on a 33K modem. ugh!)

Please contact me off list if you can help.

Much thanks!

Casey

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