What do I do with an old laptop?

[Colin Brace]

On 2/22/06, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
[big snip]

Liam,

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Longer ago than I'd care to remember,
I was a devoted afficionado of WP5.1 for DOS. I still haven't found a
program like it for printing labels. I also used DESQview for years, only
ditching it in 1994 for OS/2 3.0.

Actually, at the moment, my old 386 Thinkpad has OS/2 4.5, with FP14 (I
think?); anyway, with the y2k fixes. Netscape v2.02 runs fine on it (!).
v4.65  is more sluggish but can manage. These days, I fire it up once in a
great while to convert an old document from DeScribe (wordprocessor) or Mesa
(spreadsheet) format. Samba might work, but ftp and telnet suit my purposes.

Say what you like about OS/2 -- it certainly had its limitations -- but
there was a lot of unix in the networking stuff as well as a TON of unix
text-mode software available for it, and that mean moving to Linux, as I
eventually did after 10 years, was considerably less painful than it might
have been otherwise.

--
  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam
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