> I could use some help/advise about OS/9 x86 version 2.1. It's a long
> story but I will try to give as short version as possible.
>
> Back about 10 years ago, the company I work for had a control system
> that used OS/9000 (as it was called at that point) on a x86 PC. It was
> only used on a few systems before it was abandoned (MicroWare couldn't/
> wouldn't support us like we needed and Linux was quickly becoming a
> better alternative). The co-owner who developed it was the only person
> who knew the OS, and he died about 5 years ago without leaving much
> information for us to go on.
>
> One of the remaining systems had a hard disk failure a couple weeks
> ago. They had a backup of their data, but not the OS. I cannot seem to
> figure out how to even get an installation of OS/9(000) running on a
> computer, and all the current and former employees who ever worked
> with it remember was there were some really quirky things that had to
> be done to get it to install (to our knowledge, only the dead guy ever
> succeeded in that). We have a couple sets of installation disks
> (versions 1.4 - 2.1), none of which will complete the installation (I
> was able to get a hold of a computer of the same brand and series as
> the original installation used, so it should work).
>
> Oh, and for some reason none of us can explain (everyone is sure we
> had one just for this purpose), we don't even seem to have a hard
> drive in storage or in one of our older computers with it installed
> already, so I can't just copy the partition and go from there.
>
> Does anyone know what it took to get that going? Any ideas of what I
> could be doing wrong? I'm at a loss of how to continue here.
>