OT - Is this computer for real? (CORRECTION)

[James Knott]

Taavi Burns wrote:
> On 8/24/05, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>You might be interested in reading a book "fire in the valley" by Paul
>>Freiberger and Michael Swaine.  It's a history of personal computers and
>>contains lots of interesting info.  I recall a lot of that history, from
>>reading the various magazines of the time and I still have *EVERY* issue
>>of Byte magazine, which contains a lot of history, including the history
>>of Seattle Computer Products' Q-DOS, which became MS-DOS.
> 
> I keep the manuals for Microsoft C 5.1 lying around for a similar
> purpose: as proof that at one time there was IBM OS/2 and MS OS/2. :) 
> (then MS ditched OS/2 and went with Windows, a shell on top of DOS)
> 

Somewhere around here, I've got a set of MS C compiler for OS/2 floppies.

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