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OS/2 in different languages
« on: March 22, 2018, 04:01:55 pm »
Hi

I remember that an OS2VOICE IRC chat I remember that Alex said that it will also be desirable to have MCP1/2 ISOs in languages that they don't have.

I don't know if Alex can join and tell us which languages he (and Arca) already have, and which ones we know that exists but they are missing.

From my side I never finished the wiki page when I tried to collect all the languages available for OS/2. 

For the moment I'm also looking for older version of OS/2 in strange languages, I always wanted to see the Arabic and Hebrew versions of it :)  If you have anything, software screenshots, pictures of the boxes, etc, please let me know.

I will be also trying to find some of the IBM announcement letters to try to remember the release dates of some.

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Re: OS/2 in different languages
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2018, 05:29:35 pm »
Some Part numbers for you:

(I do have all of them Shrinked Wrapped as shown in my latest Video). Hope that helps.

Warp 4, German: PN: 22L3550. W/O G444889, Rel.: 4
Warp Server 4 Advanced, German: PN: 28H5685, BTCH: M444320, REL 0400
Warp Connect Blue Spine, German: PN: 07H9800, BTCH: M273780, REL 0301
Warp Connect Red Spine, German: PN: 07H9847, BTCH: M783510, REL 0300
Warp Blue Spine, German: PN 24H1282, BTCH: M250240, REL 3001
Warp Red Spine, German: PN 19H5077, BTCH: M428460, REL 3001
OS/2 2.11, German: PN 63G3901, BTCH: M505350, REL: 2110
OS/2 2.0, German: PN: 14G0715, BTCH: M190350, REL: 2000
OS/2 1.3, IBM Extended Edition, GErman: PN: 87F1002, BTCH: M920410, REL: 1300

PC DOS 2000, German: PN 04L5573, Rel: 1
PC DOS 7, German, Upgrade CD ROM: PN G466697, Rel.: N/AP

I have no idea what the BTCH Number is used for. May be shows date or something else of the production/creating time?

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Re: OS/2 in different languages
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2018, 09:51:34 pm »
Thanks Sigurd for sharing all the Part numbers too !!!

Are the "Warp Blue Spine, German: PN 24H1282" and the "Warp Red Spine, German: PN 19H5077" diskettes or CDs ?

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Re: OS/2 in different languages
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2018, 05:53:23 am »
Both CD.

WSeB, Upgrade, English, PN: 31L1710, W/O: G457359, Rel : N/AP

Warp 4, German - including Headset! - : PN:65H0737, BTCH: M734800, Rel.: 0400
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Re: OS/2 in different languages
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2018, 08:10:52 pm »
Thanks Sigurd.

Let's see if I can give shape on the wiki to something crazy. Like a wiki article for each box.
Any other OS/2 boxes collector? It may be interesting to try to document those, since it is never going to be on wikipedia :)

https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Category:IBM_OS/2_Release

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Re: OS/2 in different languages
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2018, 05:43:09 pm »
I have some in Dutch, but it will take some time to find them all. What about eCS?

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Re: OS/2 in different languages
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2018, 08:55:20 pm »
Hi

Just bring it on, share the part numbers, pictures and any remark of the package.  eCS is also welcome, I will have to put those on some other category, but it can be included on the wiki too.

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Re: OS/2 in different languages
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2018, 10:37:38 pm »
Hi

The following is a partial list of the languages Arca Noae is missing:

Brazilian Portuguese
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Portuguese
Traditional Chinese (a.k.a. Taiwanese)

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Re: OS/2 in different languages
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2018, 05:55:19 pm »
Hi Gregg.

Thanks for sharing that information. Let's hope that someone can help getting that ISOs before they are lost forever. I will also ask around.

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Re: OS/2 in different languages
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2018, 09:57:47 pm »
Hi

I tried to collect some more content of OS/2, eCS and ArcaOS released.
Here it is the main category of all those: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Releases

For the moment I think it will interesting for this to collect and link the announcement letter for each release.

I'm trying to find the announcement letter for eCs 1.0 to link it there. Also, I'm trying to find the "Software Choice" announcement with MCP/ACP 1 and 2 from IBM.

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