I still have my old working IBM ps/1 been trying to find a compatible cdrw disk to dump my data on then don’t know what I’ll do with it. I got it in like 1991/2 and starts right up still after being in the garage for 20 years lol

the download 404 has instructions on how to download 😉

I’d like to get a copy of that software for a system that I restored. I can send you a ROM dump of the 2133-W13 ROM files (386sx with VLSI Chipset) if it helps.

For me, I put a NIC in mine, along with a netware client, and simply xcopied the contents out.

So the hard part as always will be looking at the model you have, and what ways you have to move data off of this machine. Floppies? ISA network cards? Modem? Parallel port?

The harder issue is so much has changed that finding a modern enough machine can be a chore.

So what do you have on hand?

I had a PS/1 model 2121 back when I wrote this. I scored it for cheap on fleabay. Sadly I had to move countries, and was unable to keep it. This one had 2MB of ram, and a 40MB disk. But the software was more interesting to me, so I made a copy of the harddisk before I had to let it go.

But it was full of various IBM branded prodogy clients, MS Works for MS-DOS, and IBM DOS 4.00 / Windows 3.0. Nothing all that stellar, but kind of cool for a machine of that era.

It felt more like a better OEM packaging experience then you’d get from any of the clones of the day, that is for sure. And I really liked the iMac form factor.

I did have my whole hard drive put onto a CD. It’s on another hard drive somewhere in my basement. Is there anything on there that could be of any value? I am unable to follow any of the conversation above. I learned a little programming in DOS on that thing but not much.

Sorry Oracle screwed up java so bad that it’s become impossible to run jdosbox anymore (and well pretty much any and all java). I’d all but given up, and not bothered to fix the links or anything else.

But I still have the files.

if you check the post there is a java dosbox version with what software came with my PS/1. I never did get install diskettes so that is about as good as it is going to get, I’m affraid. I suspect that later PS/1’s came with works for windows, as the works on my PS/1 was for MS-DOS.