Old school IBM conquest!

[oneboyarmy]

It's really not as old school as it could be, but I'm excited. It's an IBM Personal Computer 330. It was destined for the recycler at work and I'd ask if I could keep it (we have a couple pallets of various versions of these things) and got the approval today! It's in very good shape cosmetically, and I'm working on giving it a good cleaning during my last few hours of work.

Mine has either 32 or 40MB of RAM, (it uses 72-pin SIMMs) a 133Mhz Pentium, and a 1.2GB hard drive. Three shared PCI/ISA slots, one of which is occupied with a NIC. I'm going to add a sound card... assuming I find one in my box of parts... and that will be after I move and retrieve the box from my storage unit!

I got to set up as a means of running OS/2 Warp 4. I've never had a good system to run OS/2 on and well, IBM makes the hardware and software so this should work out nicely without fussing about with a ridiculous amount of driver-searching.

Oh! And since it lacked a CD-ROM drive when I picked it off the pallet, I got the OK to add a drive to it. Lucky me, I found an 8x HP CD-Writer 9100 series!

I always liked IBM hardware. I'll have to get some pictures taken once it's all cleaned up and ready to rock.

I may also try and procure a few other old boxes, but I'll save the details for now to avoid potential disappointment. :lol:

 

[beta_train]

Nice conquest! I've always liked the early IBM PC's, and OS/2 is friggen' awesome!

 

[porter]

OS/2 is friggen' awesome!

Except for the default sounds in OS/2 3.0 Warp. They are extremely naff and irritating.

 

[oneboyarmy]

OS/2 is friggen' awesome!

Except for the default sounds in OS/2 3.0 Warp. They are extremely naff and irritating.

They're rather annoying in Warp 4 as well. When I finally got it installed in Virtual PC the first thing I did was turn them off.

 

[oneboyarmy]

Nice conquest! I've always liked the early IBM PC's, and OS/2 is friggen' awesome!

I've always thought IBM made some pretty awesome stuff. Even when I was a kid I liked them better than any of the other PCs I saw - and of course, the very first computer that belonged to me was an IBM! I actually had a few earlier machines

I actually have boxed copies of OS/2 2.11 (on floppy!) and OS/2 Warp 3 (non-Connect CD version). I just recently got Warp 4 so I'm really itching to play with it, especially since Firefox and Thunderbird have recent ports for it! It will have to wait until after the holidays, but I can live with that!