I love to see projects like this. I’ve always lamented that my father threw away his set of System 360 manuals while cleaning out the garage. He also had boxes of early computer science books - nothing like them today, first half of the books were always dedicated to explaining the professor’s particular diagraming style and symbology, second half of the book was the actual computer science content. I’m always on the lookout for books like that when I hit the used book stores but have never found any.
Oh boy, what fun memories! I paid $3,000 in 1987 for the SDK and to go to the developers conference. Steve Ballmer shouted, “OS/2 is the operating system for the next ten years!” He was about right.
Ah OS/2! You could use the computer even while formatting a floppy.<p>As I recall, IBM would send you OS/2 for free, on a bunch of the new-style 3.5" floppies. I think it was about two dozen floppies.
I never got to actually use OS/2. However, when I was a kid I filled out one of those survey cards from a computer magazine, and I started getting all kinds of catalogs and stuff.<p>One of those catalogs was from Indelible Blue. It was basically a catalog full of OS/2 software. REXX scripting always fascinated me.<p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kzoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA89-IA1&lpg=PA89-IA1&dq=indelible+blue+os/2&source=bl&ots=HDaNEQVISj&sig=ACfU3U1FB2P6MWu4iB2cRCPYzJW6cXKn3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjf5NfQhevmAhVCa80KHeWVDi8Q6AEwBHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=indelible%20blue%20os%2F2&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=kzoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA89-IA1&l...</a>
These old docs are always interesting. I also love old books on archaic programming languages and operating systems. But there's usually just so much stuff to read through. It makes me wish for modern books that boil down the complexity of the old systems into a condensed manual. Something like The New Apple II User's Guide.