Our New iMac and OS/2 Warp 3

[SystemSoftware7]

omfg ho hard is it to open a box?!?!? and packard bell makes better computers than this....serioiusly

[christo930]

This is one of the most boring poorly done youtube videos I've seen (and I've seen a lot of youtube videos)

[jasonscottpage]

@christo930 Was intended to be sentimental, not theatrical.

[christo930]

@jasonscottpage Sorry. OS/2 was great on networks and especially if you had mainframe or the IBM imaging system (mainframe based) and had all kinds of sollutions and token ring networking which was 16mbps at a time when ethernet was 10 mbps. But it was just so friggin slow and had very little native software so you were stuck with windows anyway.

[DaiWood]

QUOTE:

baEaglei1:

- what was your old computer?

QUOTE:

jasonscottpage:

- PIII 400mhz 256mb mem XP box (heavy) and 21" monitor (heavy)

...and IMHO *that* is the computer you showed us OS/2 being installed on.

The monitor's recessed edge gave it out ;-)

Nice video anyways, but should be in the "comedy" section, hehe.

[jasonscottpage]

@DaiWood Was using XP on that box. Needed Photoshop and Sigma Photo Pro. I used OS/2 on a 80486 NEC laptop which is what you see in the video. I used OS/2 exclusively between 1995 and 2002. Then XP and then OS/X on Apple hardware. As a student leader at my college I setup an OS/2 based student KIOSK that only shut down once in it's 5 years, because of a power outage at the college (from 2002-2007) -- almost 4 years of continuos uptime.

[Sames4000]

THE FUCK?

Mac OS X > OS/2

[iswallowedarabbit]

OS/2 is 7 years older than OSX 10.0. Compare OS/2 Warp to Mac System 7.

[jasonscottpage]

@iswallowedarabbit Was not meant to be a comparison, rather I intended to correlate the evolution of technology to the end user.

[Mish1035]

I sure hope you didn't cut the new 'baby'?

[TheGeek1028]

And why are you using OS/2?

[jasonscottpage]

OS/2 has the feeling of security, stability, predictability and minimalsim with power I could not find on any other platform except Amiga OS and BeOS.

[jasonscottpage]

@TheGeek1028 OS/2 had the feeling of security, stability, predictability with minimalism and power I could not find on any other platform except Amiga OS, BeOS and NeXTStep. I suspect also Sun although I have not used that platform.

[jasonscottpage]

@TheGeek1028 Feel free to retract your comment.

[AkioSarin]

by the time you got that open there was already 10,000 new macs, its out dated now, well done.

[KriegerBR29]

"would you like a saw?" LOL

[viciousdave119]

Oh my god. You don't know how to open a box? That part you were cutting, all you had to do was take two fingers underneath that flap, and than push upwards, it was really that easy, my god!

[jasonscottpage]

@viciousdave119 Would be easy, but not fun. I enjoy the journey over the destination.

[jackpierce10]

wow, you really made a mess of that packaging

[jasonscottpage]

@jackpierce10 Any exciting party results in some kind of a mess.

[duey06]

whoa u wasted a whole hr tryin to get that box open hun lol

[cokeacola66]

before os/x was os9

[sandyclaws29]

the "other" option was OS/2, before OS/X...There is a history between the development of OS/2 and OS classic as competitors of each other.

[jasonscottpage]

@cokeacola66 OS Classic very different from OS/X. OS/2 and OS/X development embodied and expressed an art for the engineering and simplicity of the platforms. OS/2 was the answer for the PC to the 1984 Mac Classic. Ironically Microsoft initially seeded the development, disagreement between IBM and Microsoft where to market a nitch lead to their disbandment and the split, soon as competitors as demonstrated in the NT/OS/2 Texas shootout of 1992.

[cokeacola66]

it is a good computer

[felpa99]

you re soo stupid, hahaha, you dunno how to open a box. And, why did you get os2???

[jasonscottpage]

@felpa99 Been using OS/2 since 1995. Using OS/X now, since this first. OS/2 today is now a novelty of what could have been, if only IBM properly marketed the product to the consumer. IBM was gun-hole to limit their market to corporations and government and missed the bandwagon of the household demand for the computer and internet. Apple had the consumer in mind since the very beginning Apple I.

[JRepin]

10:15

OS/2 Warp sure was a great operating system. We used Warp 4 and it is the last one I really liked, until I discovered Linux. Now all is nice and fun again.

[evilspam]

Warp 3 is dead, eComStation not.

[jasonscottpage]

@evilspam I agree. Demand seems regionally restricted, non-existent in the US.

[metalman92]

Lol I hope I'm not the only one that thinks she looks kind of like Sara Silverman

[eclipx]

why do you fuck up that box, it's apple, it's beauty ;)

[dontwalkhand]

Judging by the HP box you pushed aside, and the way you oepend the box, it seems you open aall boxes destructively, lol.

[jasonscottpage]

@dontwalkhand I was excited! Too much coffee and little meditation does that.

[baEaglei1]

what was your old computer?

[jasonscottpage]

@baEaglei1 PIII 400mhz 256mb mem XP box (heavy) and 21" monitor (heavy)

Giving it away to a poor journalist this Sat.

[Darkn8Chui]

Well, it was a bit hard... She were about 2 inches to kill herself with the scisors.

[jaathan]

this has to be the most destructive opening of a mac ive ever seen. You are suppose to snip off the tape, not cut through the box. Then you pull the iMac. But the important thing is you got a Mac! =) Enjoy it!