On Fri, 27 Aug 2021, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hi Everyone,
As you know, Dean, I and a few other people are working on what we hope to be the largest exhibit in the history of VCF: The World of IBM. This is in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the IBM PC.
We have most of the PC/XT/AT era covered, but could use more variety in the PS/2 area. You can offer to loan a computer to us (I'll link you in on our internal spreadsheet so you know what we've already covered) or you can do an entire table yourself. We're especially looking for someone to run an OS/2 exhibit (we have a massive OS/2 collection in the warehouse that we've been itching to put on display since we acquired it).
When I did OS/2 on PS/2 a couple years ago, I had a 100% fatality rate on the PS/2s :) (Proprietary hard disk interface... thanks, IBM.) That said I'd be willing to take a look at what I've got and see what shows signs of life. I'll get back to you on that later this weekend. I had hoped to have a PC-XT/286 (5162) up and running for this, but I'm still chasing a memory+logic problem so that's probably not going to make it in time. It is running PhoenixBIOS now with a later 3rd-party disk controller, which I think both say a lot about PC compatibility. Also, I wish I had a Sun PC/PCi to loan to this effort. -- Jameel Akari