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A while back I wanted to run OS/2 on real hardware -- I bought an old HP omnibook 800; the batteries were all shot but otherwise it worked fine (the laptop; OS/
by cduzz 4y ago
A while back I wanted to run OS/2 on real hardware -- I bought an old HP omnibook 800; the batteries were all shot but otherwise it worked fine (the laptop; OS/2 was kind of a pain to setup). That's not the 70s but it's old. Lots of that vintage computer would work fine if it weren't for those pesky capacitors -- the same's true of lots of older vintage electronics.
I recently bought an old keyboard (an old IBM M4-1, a PS2 keyboard / trackpoint combination thing) -- it's from 1994 and needed a couple adapters, but connected to my macbook pro just fine, and worked pretty well.
OS2 won't know modern TLS and the keyboard doesn't have the command / meta / windows / open clover shift keys, they do fine.
My old HP calculator from high school didn't work when I tried it out...