In a message to All, Ron Nicholls wrote re: 2.1

RN> It was one of those bright sunday afternoons but cold in the wind,
RN> when I was hunting around in an old wardrobe and stumbled
RN> across a box of "2.1 for Windows" blue spine and thought, HEY!
RN> what the heck.
RN> 
RN> I had a spare drive, in a caddy, and we were off and and running
RN> 
RN> Do you remember ? -
RN> 
RN> 
RN> After disk 4 you reinsert the disks installation and one
RN> before continuing with the rest.
RN> I wondered why the disk images weren't stored
RN> in a temp directory to avoid this?

Because when OS/2 v2.1 came out most people couldn't afford HD's 
large enough to store the images, even temporarily.

RN> The properties / settings notebook was accessed
RN> from the "Open" cascade menu.
RN> 
RN> The windows had no close button, I got caught 
RN> diving for the top right corner every time :-)

But you can add one with NPSWPS...
 
RN> There was a start button at the top of the desktop
RN> which opened the online manual
RN> 
RN> Maybe an MS contribution

No... OS/2 v2.1 came out in 1993, two years before Microsoft came
out with their own "Start" button.

RN> The productivity folder contained, among other things
RN> 
RN> database
RN> spreadsheet
RN> charting program
RN> the usual planners/calender
RN> 
RN> *** the above got included into Works later on ***

Much better version got included with IBMWorks.  The PIM aplets 
were pretty rudimentary.  I till have them installed on this 
machine (upgraded from v2.1 many years ago) but I haven't opened 
them inquite some time.



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