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#IBM and #AIX friends: is there any place I can get a shell account on an AIX box (any version, any processor generation) for <= 25USD (not a hard cap). To be clear, I'm not looking for Linux on POWER, but prpoper AIX.

Ugliest and most poorly hidden #EasterEgg in #OperatingSystem history? Literally an executable - `\OS2\BITMAPS\AAAAA.EXE` - on the boot drive. CW: your eyes may bleed. Boost to people you don't like.

Don't get me wrong - I really like OS/2. But IBM never really made pretty things, did they?

And the alt text needs to be forced upon y'all in this one:

Short video clip showing a vector drawing of a green field with a road leading past some purple mountains in the background. There's a small blob of water next to the road. There are gradients everywhere: background, mountains, road, water..
The sun is orange (also gradient) with a drop shadow like only late 80s vector drawing software could. Corel Draw maybe? It reads "OS/2 Warp" in the top right corner.

There is an absurdly large metal pole with an even larger white sign full of names printed in a horribly-rendered font (probably System Proportional). The background of the sign is white and, thankfully, not gradient. I suspect this is due to technical limitation, not artistic ones.

#RetroComputing #OS2 #Warp #Ugly #IBM #BigBlue
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@harald Generally, no. Let me be verbose :D There are a lot of problems with that slash in the name which makes it hard to find and post OS/2-related stuff:

  • Mastodon web UI renders it as simply <hash>OS, with the /2 dangling. I can coerce it to search for it by manually editing the URL with %2f in place of the /, but it seems to not actually search for hashtags but simply plaintext search when I do that.
  • Pleroma displays "OS/2" in your message as a link to your instance, but does not interpret it as an actual hashtag - the hash (#) itself is not part of the anchor text.
  • My preferred iOS client (Pipilo) fails, probably due to a server error, to display anything if I tap the link in your message. Other clients don't even try to send the /2 at all, considering the slash another word separator.

Whichever search engine I use (not fediverse), finding OS/2 stuff is made harder because of the same issue, and you need to treat it specially by quoting or escaping or whatever your search engine of choice prefers.

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I have a large collection of #electronic and #computer #music #vinyl #records. I had a radio show on FM on the subject for about a decade. So it is always exciting to find something I don't have, especially early stuff. Found this 10" boxed "Music from Mathematics" from 1960, bell labs. Much more rare than 1962 Decca 12". Never seen it before. Found in a local shop, of all places, hiding inside a vinyl carry case.
#belllabs #IBM #retrocomputing #computerassisted

In the late '70s & early '80s there were a lot of ppl saying that #computers were useless toys. And they were mostly right at the time. #Communication was and is the no1 killer app for computers (no, not #games). But that didn't fully arrive until 1997 for most ppl, 20 years later. Also consider that when capable #smartphones came around in 2007, people stopped using computers (now, 90% of overall usage is on #phones).