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miturbide

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A Copy of IBM Device Kit Online Web Site ?
« on: 2009.08.23, 19:10:45 »
Hi

Do you remeber that IBM used to have a website with all the OS/2 hardware devices supported? I mean the one that listed the devices (Not the one with the source code of the drivers)

Does anybody got a copy of the web site that can send it over me.

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Re: A Copy of IBM Device Kit Online Web Site ?
« Reply #1 on: 2009.08.24, 10:07:53 »
Hola Martin,

...was that
http://service5.boulder.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCat%3FOpenView

, the "device driver pak online"?
Perhaps there is some web archive somewhere? I don't know the URL for this by heart, IIRC there is a site that archives webpages. Not sure though if they maintain deeplinks into IBM...

The only things that I could still find working are:
- ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak_cur/
- ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak_old/
- ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/    (which is Thinkpad stuff only)

Neither one of the above contains any kind of "list" or html files though.
Not sure if that helps...

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Thomas
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Re: A Copy of IBM Device Kit Online Web Site ?
« Reply #2 on: 2009.08.24, 16:02:59 »
Hi.

I don't remember which used to be the URL. The "device driver pak online" (I think that was it's name) used to have listed all the hardware devices supported under OS/2 and a link to the drivers. Currently I'm interested if anybody has a copy of the html files (not the drivers files).
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Re: A Copy of IBM Device Kit Online Web Site ?
« Reply #3 on: 2009.08.24, 16:10:44 »
Hi,

you can look at the CD that came with Warp 4, but it's not the latest version.

//Jan-Erik

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Re: A Copy of IBM Device Kit Online Web Site ?
« Reply #4 on: 2009.08.24, 16:44:57 »
Hi,

okay, I found it is the "wayback machine"... but if you see here
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://service5.boulder.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCat%3FOpenView

you will notice that they (IBM) disallowed robots from the root onwards to scan thru the pages. Good job, IBM.
Even if it would have been allowed, I doubt that the robots would have been able to dig into subpages.

Sorry. Regards,
Thomas
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Re: A Copy of IBM Device Kit Online Web Site ?
« Reply #5 on: 2009.08.31, 21:38:08 »

The full name was "OS/2 Device Driver Pak Online" and the URL used to be:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/index.htm

I don't recall that it used to be a notes database (.nsf)
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Re: A Copy of IBM Device Kit Online Web Site ?
« Reply #6 on: 2009.08.31, 23:14:50 »
Martin, I don't know if this will be of any use to you but the Merlin beta came with a device driver CD that has a web interface and lists 34 categories of drivers.  If it is any help I can zip up the HTML and send it to you.