Decided to give a purpose to my Coppermine PIII 1GHz PC today, which was simply laying in storage doing nothing. I wanted to play around with OS/2 and realised that the spec of this system should suffice, so I installed eComStation 2 on it.
Spec:
Toshiba Equium 3300M PC
Socket 370 Motherboard (not sure of make/model at the moment) with Via Apollo Pro 133 Chipset
768MB PC133 SDRAM
20GB IDE HDD
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX440 64MB AGP Graphics
Via AC'97 Onboard Sound
Intel Pro/100S PCI Ethernet
Spent most of the day playing around with it. Quite the learning curve as I'd only ever briefly used OS/2 Warp 4 in the past and so had to learn the basics from scratch. Some very weird GUI design choices that will take some getting used to.
Installed quite a few programs & libraries, including yum/rpm, Zippy, Microsoft Office 4 (for Win-OS/2), Star Office 5.1 & the latest available version of Firefox. Played a few simple Windows 3.1 games, plus tested out a couple of DOS games (limited support/no sound as expected).
Strange OS that I probably won't use often, but at least it gives this PC a purpose other than another generic DOS/Windows retro system and I can finally learn to operate something new.