My first real job in IT was at an IBM training centre, so OS/2 and the PS/2 share the same warm place for me as for OP. The original PS/2 was literally the size

My first real job in IT was at an IBM training centre, so OS/2 and the PS/2 share the same warm place for me as for OP. The original PS/2 was literally the size of a suitcase, and very, very heavy: but I could lift two at once if I was in a hurry to set up a room for teaching. Real computers. At the same job, I was probably one of the first people to use Windows: Windows 286, that is, with PageMaker, which we used to make course materials. It was slow and clunky at the same time as awesomely cool. Windows 386 was even better. Then IBM launched OS/2, and we did our level best to like it, install and use it, but it never really felt that good. It needed too much RAM. It didn't support our legacy apps (not many of them, anyway) and the UI felt weird. On the day Windows 3.0 was released internally, on the IBM network, I think just about everyone who used a PC downloaded the seven or so floppy disk images needed to install it, and we were passing them around like a crack pipe. Everyone wanted it, and this was apparently happening all over IBM UK. Although it's ultimate demise took a long time after that, we all knew it was basically over for OS/2 at that point. Which is a shame, because (looking back) it still seems cool and interesting and Windows soon became very boring indeed.