I started my career in the OS/2 - OS/2 Lan Server world in the banking industry where we deployed OS/2 workstations running on Token Ring across the state of Lo

I started my career in the OS/2 - OS/2 Lan Server world in the banking industry where we deployed OS/2 workstations running on Token Ring across the state of Louisiana. The application that ran on these OS/2 boxes was a smalltalk GUI that basically sent commands back to a 3270 mainframe session. It was really a hilarious, basically non-productive application for the employees. Never underestimate how productive a bank teller who's been working for a few years can bang out keyboard combinations in a 3270 session vs now having to point and click to do basically the same thing. Your post reminds me of the IBM ecosystem, from sales and tech support, Micro-channel token ring cards that were super expensive and had to "insert into the ring" to get network access, to watching the release of Win95, and even myself a hard core OS/2 zealot at the time could not deny that Win95 changed the world going forward. I ended up going to work for IBM as a contractor doing level 2 support for the OS/2 TCP/IP stack, which was relatively new to the world in general, and so the small 3 person team that just did TCP/IP stack support were considered wizards and unique, given most of the OS/2 world ran on Netbios and even IPX for Netware integration. It was a wild time of IBM software sales execs signing huge contracts, and deployments of overly complex environments that kept us on our toes. I ended up pivoting to IBM's newly acquired Tivoli unit, and became a full time employee managing that beast of a enviromnent for "enterprise systems management" - then I got into all the CORBA and crazy frameworks there. Fun times. Life is different now.