Thank you for sharing that video! I have fond memories of OS/2. I used versions 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0. It was a pretty solid operating system, a little clunky around the edges but very stable. It didn't crash, which was SUCH a refreshing change from the Windows 3.1 of the time. I remember running Windows programs under OS/2 that would always crash running under Windows 3.1! I spent a lot of time fine tuning my CONFIG.SYS file :) I even preferred OS/2 to Windows 95! But in the end, Slackware won my heart and OS/2 was abandoned. Slackware came with so MUCH stuff! Compilers, databases, network utilities! It was like discovering a gold mine :) The thing that held OS/2 back, was the high cost of RAM at that time. It needed a lot of RAM. Thanks for the memories!
Nice! Maybe an idea for a new video is not just installing, but one where you explore retro developer tools and create a simple application? Perhaps compare different compilers. Really enjoy your videos.
I am very happy you enjoy them, but as you might be a gentleman who is into DEC, I can tell you, the best still lies ahead! - As to the matter, I know what you mean, and THAT battle lies still ahead, though it is, indeed, planned, as I found something entertainingly difficult. - Next video will concern getting OS/2 an office suite, and then the journey will continue more towards the "heart of darkness" of Intel 386 operating systems…
@@ninoivanov That is wonderful! I look forward to this. Yes, I have a few VAXen, one pdp-11, also some PiDP-8/10/11, but one of my favourite systems is the rare SPIM (MIPS) DEC systems. I run NetBSD and the even more obscure OSF/1 v2.0 there. I like many old computer architectures. One that saddens me that not many people appreciate is PA-RISC. It is a gorgeous architecture with many amusing little technologically interesting side-quests, for instance NeXTSTEP on PA-RISC (yellow hardware). Perhaps one day these things will become collectable. Best wishes!
@@VK2FVAX Apparently, it is an at least reasonably common occurrence; and if it is not the card, it is the cable, etc., etc.: One other reviewer, as one of the commenters here mentioned, seems to also have had GPU issues. For another gentlemen, the battery burst on a previous model, spilling acid, and for me, there, a chip literally melted. What is way more exasperating even is that there are NO SPARE PARTS sold. You see what breaks, being reasonably equipped with a screwdriver, you could fix it, but - you cannot, because nobody will sell you the part. What I have to say is, these things I find insanely beautiful, but the opposite of "sturdy". You might also consider just "getting an old machine", as you build things from spare parts anyway and own most eccentric gadgets, with the recommendation being, get one where you can set Cylinders, Heads and Sectors of the hard drive, and then simply work with compact flash cards. If it has survived three decades in the wild, it will survive your playing around with it, too.
I was wondering if you think something would work. I was wondering if since the Pocket 386 has the usb port that you could make a bat file that would make it run network protocol for a driverless usb mini wifi router instead of running the file for making the usb a floppy disk drive? Or, am I thinking about it wrong and the ch375 is the driver for the usb itself? Either way, I was thinking that there might be someway to make it start and connect so when you load a program, you can connect to it like a modem.
I understand you want to "try to use the USB" - I read in DOS you can only use it as a storage device and nothing more, in particular not as … COM1 or something. I cannot say, however, would it or would it not be e.g. more widely useable under FreeBSD or Linux. (My machine died.)
Ok I am confused...I thought your pocket 386 died on or around Sept 13...and you was understandable tired of the hardware issues. Then we get this. Was it recorded before that? interesting to see alternatives loaded on the pocket 386. I just wish more was available in the way of software once that was done so someone could do more. My pocket 386 is holding up, but I realize it is fragile...So I hook it up to ps2 mouse, and external keybaord and external monitor...Yea I know what is the point of such a small form factor if you dock it into a desktop situation. Well, I don't have a old desktop machine of this era. And if I did given the age of the deskiop machine which gets the realiabity node...I bought the pocket 386 thinking it would with new parts...now I just don't know. But I have what I have.
Well, and may you have better luck with it! 😊 Yeah, there are a bunch ov videos now that I am releasing and that I recorded before it died. This is what so exasperated me: for experiments, the machine is NICE.
Thank you for sharing that video!
I have fond memories of OS/2. I used versions 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0.
It was a pretty solid operating system, a little clunky around the edges but very stable. It didn't crash, which was SUCH a refreshing change from the Windows 3.1 of the time.
I remember running Windows programs under OS/2 that would always crash running under Windows 3.1!
I spent a lot of time fine tuning my CONFIG.SYS file :)
I even preferred OS/2 to Windows 95!
But in the end, Slackware won my heart and OS/2 was abandoned.
Slackware came with so MUCH stuff! Compilers, databases, network utilities! It was like discovering a gold mine :)
The thing that held OS/2 back, was the high cost of RAM at that time. It needed a lot of RAM.
Thanks for the memories!
Thank you for sharing, Seth! And… I love your fine irony - "needed a loy of RAM” : "thank you for the memories"… 😆
Nice! Maybe an idea for a new video is not just installing, but one where you explore retro developer tools and create a simple application? Perhaps compare different compilers. Really enjoy your videos.
I am very happy you enjoy them, but as you might be a gentleman who is into DEC, I can tell you, the best still lies ahead! - As to the matter, I know what you mean, and THAT battle lies still ahead, though it is, indeed, planned, as I found something entertainingly difficult. - Next video will concern getting OS/2 an office suite, and then the journey will continue more towards the "heart of darkness" of Intel 386 operating systems…
I often consider buying one of these. Is the failure of the video card a common faullt due to heat? Is there anything we can do to stop it happening?
@@ninoivanov That is wonderful! I look forward to this. Yes, I have a few VAXen, one pdp-11, also some PiDP-8/10/11, but one of my favourite systems is the rare SPIM (MIPS) DEC systems. I run NetBSD and the even more obscure OSF/1 v2.0 there. I like many old computer architectures. One that saddens me that not many people appreciate is PA-RISC. It is a gorgeous architecture with many amusing little technologically interesting side-quests, for instance NeXTSTEP on PA-RISC (yellow hardware). Perhaps one day these things will become collectable. Best wishes!
@@VK2FVAX I subscribed, in case YOU ever decide to make videos! :D
@@VK2FVAX Apparently, it is an at least reasonably common occurrence; and if it is not the card, it is the cable, etc., etc.: One other reviewer, as one of the commenters here mentioned, seems to also have had GPU issues. For another gentlemen, the battery burst on a previous model, spilling acid, and for me, there, a chip literally melted. What is way more exasperating even is that there are NO SPARE PARTS sold. You see what breaks, being reasonably equipped with a screwdriver, you could fix it, but - you cannot, because nobody will sell you the part. What I have to say is, these things I find insanely beautiful, but the opposite of "sturdy". You might also consider just "getting an old machine", as you build things from spare parts anyway and own most eccentric gadgets, with the recommendation being, get one where you can set Cylinders, Heads and Sectors of the hard drive, and then simply work with compact flash cards. If it has survived three decades in the wild, it will survive your playing around with it, too.
I was wondering if you think something would work. I was wondering if since the Pocket 386 has the usb port that you could make a bat file that would make it run network protocol for a driverless usb mini wifi router instead of running the file for making the usb a floppy disk drive? Or, am I thinking about it wrong and the ch375 is the driver for the usb itself? Either way, I was thinking that there might be someway to make it start and connect so when you load a program, you can connect to it like a modem.
I understand you want to "try to use the USB" - I read in DOS you can only use it as a storage device and nothing more, in particular not as … COM1 or something. I cannot say, however, would it or would it not be e.g. more widely useable under FreeBSD or Linux. (My machine died.)
Ok I am confused...I thought your pocket 386 died on or around Sept 13...and you was understandable tired of the hardware issues. Then we get this. Was it recorded before that?
interesting to see alternatives loaded on the pocket 386. I just wish more was available in the way of software once that was done so someone could do more. My pocket 386 is holding up, but I realize it is fragile...So I hook it up to ps2 mouse, and external keybaord and external monitor...Yea I know what is the point of such a small form factor if you dock it into a desktop situation. Well, I don't have a old desktop machine of this era. And if I did given the age of the deskiop machine which gets the realiabity node...I bought the pocket 386 thinking it would with new parts...now I just don't know. But I have what I have.
Well, and may you have better luck with it! 😊 Yeah, there are a bunch ov videos now that I am releasing and that I recorded before it died. This is what so exasperated me: for experiments, the machine is NICE.