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Lost IBM OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 localizations: Looking for help finding and archiving

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Lost IBM OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 localizations: Looking for help finding and archiving

#1
It's amazing how software from a major company that is less than 30 years old can get lost & forgotten so fast.

Building on a 2022 post about finding a copy of the long lost Slovenian OS/2 Warp 4 - https://www.os2museum.com/wp/slovenian-os-2-warp-4/ - some fellow software archaeologists have concluded some other localization editions are still missing - copied from the post's comments:

-- OBattler says: December 8, 2024 at 9:53 am It turns out Slovenian isn’t the only version missing of OS/2 Warp 4.0 – Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brazil) are also missing, as are Dutch, French, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish, and a non-trial version of Hungarian.

OBattler says: December 8, 2024 at 10:01 am I just found FixPack 5 for OS/2 Warp 3.0 (or at least, references thereof) Arabic, French (Canada), Hebrew, Thai, Turkish, and, apparently, also Bulgarian and Lithuaian! So OS/2 Warp 4.0 must have also existed in these languages.

Source: https://ecsoft2.org/system-fixpacks-and-patches --

Anyone who can help find these CDs and help the os2museum.com preserve them (and optionally upload them to archive.org, too) is very welcome to join our cause.

Also looking for any (ex)IBM employees thst worked on the OS/2 localization projects and can help with this!

Marko Štamcar Computer History Museum Slovenia

Re: Lost IBM OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 localizations: Looking for help finding and archiving

#4

Good luck!

Thanks! It's really hard to find any info online and even for the Slovenian version we just have a copy of a copy of the original installation CD and no photos of the original localized materials exist online.

Re: Lost IBM OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 localizations: Looking for help finding and archiving

#8
If you are comfortable/allowed to use torrents, you may want to try this magnet link:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d981a11797c174ab90d5567bcb47e09da70a3451

It contains 29+GB of OS/2 related stuff, including official CDs. Just found by searching at the usual shady places, so no guarantees about contents and safety.

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