Sharing Windows 3.x? Yes, with my OS/2 WARP & MS-DOS 6 multi-boot setup (Colani Restoration Pt. 3)

[@jamestiner1882]

That was quite a tour de force! Next time I play with OS/2 I'm going to review this video and try the multi boot setup with MS-DOS. Running a shared Windows install between DOS and OS/2 is very impressive.

[@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR]

No rocket science actually, it works fine in a shared environment even without tweaking the config files (if you can live with some sporadic error messages).

[@jasmijndekkers]

Colani and Highscreen are nice systems to, and great to work on. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

[@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR]

Steven, where in the Netherlands are you, btw?

[@jasmijndekkers]

@@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR Iam in Etten-Leur near Breda. Its a nice town. Greetings,

[@trr94001]

At one point in 1995 or so I had Dos, OS/2, Windows NT 3.51, and Slackware 2.3 in a quad boot setup using the OS/2 boot manager across two hard drives.

[@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR]

Ah yes, slackware, rings a distant bell :)

[@SobieRobie]

Nice video. OS/2 was my dream back in the days. Regarding replicas... I don't think so. My first PC was XT by Hyundai, second was an unbranded clone based on 386SX/33, nothing special at all and third... well tuned custom PC created by myself. It was great PC in this era, Soyo HX motherboard, Tseng ET6000 SVGA, 32MB EDO RAM, so called 'green case' and even GUS. The CPU of my choice was Cyrix PR166+, great CPU... but then sudennly Quake arrived :D I have special feelings about that machine but you know... some of them are very sour ;)

[@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR]

Haha, I guess when Quake came, many of us had to move away from the good old 486s. Luckily, my dad had the Pentium at that time already!

[@OzzFan1000]

I still own my first computer which is (was?) a refurbished Packard Bell PB410T, which I proceeded to upgrade to the max back in the day. But as far as trying to rebuild a computer from my past, I am trying to rebuild a Packard Bell Legend 2000. I have all the components including monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Unfortunately the system won't boot due to some issue with the BIOS or keyboard controller. I need to get new soldering equipment before I can continue on with that project.

[@AppleyardAndy]

I remember doing a dual boot by using a boot floppy disk to boot into dos and the hdd for windows.

[@twentyrothmans7308]

I'm halfway between you and your father in age, I think. We were an IBM-owned company (nothing to do with IBM, just ran all their gear), and I had to figure out how to get from MVS DB2 through OS/2 to Windows for the masses. It wasn't pretty.

[@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR]

That would put you somewhere in the 60s range then ;-) Sound's like you had your share in the days of the operating system wars ...