I bumped into some of this in the hobby world. I rescued a 1999 Multiprise 3000 from becoming scrap metal. It has no hard drives and it would be extraordinari

I bumped into some of this in the hobby world. I rescued a 1999 Multiprise 3000 from becoming scrap metal. It has no hard drives and it would be extraordinarily expensive to try to populate even the minimum. It could, though, be used using the IDE port on the PICMG-1.0 PC card, though. I got OS/2 up and running and sought help for the rest. One guy had tons of utilities he got from someone else, but plainly refused to even run a single ftp command. Another was helping, but wouldn't upload more than the bare minimum for each tiny step and quit right when it was time for the stuff needed to talk to the mainframe portion. Most other responses to inquiries, when anyone replied, was to cut IBM a check. It was a frustrating and fruitless effort.