I did, but I worked at IBM at the time. Recall downloading the beta tests repeatedly, over a dozen 1.44Mb disk images, over the internal SNA network. Had to t

I did, but I worked at IBM at the time. Recall downloading the beta tests repeatedly, over a dozen 1.44Mb disk images, over the internal SNA network. Had to transfer them to my local mainframe, then down to my PC, then cut to a disk. Typically did that one night and the install the next night. Depending on how good or bad the beta was it would take a couple of hours, or all night (since I HAD to have a working system the next day). Was the first time the PC/OS2 folks allowed anyone outside of Boca to participate in the beta testing. Coming from a Mac/XWindows background at the time, I didn't think OS/2 1.3 was all that special. 2.0 "felt" much better than either Win 3.1 or System 7 at the time. But it was so tied to IBM's PS/2 systems that even if you wanted to run it on your home system you were likely out of luck. Compatibility improved over time, but not quickly enough to counter Windows. Plus the PC/PSG folks did anything and everything they could to require "most favored nation" status with OS/2, while at the same time courting Microsoft to ensure Windows '95 ran well out of the gate on the Aptivas, Thinkpads and whatever other brands I can't recall. One of the potential advantages that OS/2 had, which IBM blew, was its TCP/IP stack was pretty good, much, much, much better than what was on Windows at the time ('92-94). Even then, IBM initially made it a separate package (I have no idea how much it cost) because as we all know, the future is LU6.2 networking over SNA. IBM employee desktops were required to be OS/2 well into 1998-1999. But since IBM killed off WebExplorer, and Netscape Navigator for OS/2 was always just a little bit too off to be considered serious, many of us were using Windows '95 by late 1996 or early 1997. I finally made the switch over to Windows '95 permanently in mid-1998 when I realized I couldn't see the ibm.com homepage redesign we were launching.