I used OS/2 for a little bit. I even went to one of the regional launch events. We never ended up actually deploying it though.

My first OS/2 felt like quite the coup. I was an AS/400 programmer at the time (good lord--how things change...), and we didn't have what I considered adequate development environments (and some things stay the same...), so I convinced the boss to set up a really local area netwok with the only three PCs in the company, running OS/2, connected to the AS/400s, and also emulating the AS/400 environment so we could run our code more properly through its paces before deploying to production.

And I *seriously* hadn't recalled that until now.

When I thought about installing OS/2 for the first time, i was actually thinking of the Lotus Notes deployment I did (again convincing bosses who had no clue that it was the second coming) at my second job. We got swept past Notes in the end--between Groupwise and VB and Access (and eventually PHP and MySQL, but by that time I wasn't telling the bosses what infrastructure components I was using) we got the functionality elsewhere.

First job I got in LA was a Notes shop, and is some ways it was like dropping 10 years back into the past. Good lord.

I remember selling OS2 when I worked for Egghead. I also remember that Egghead used OS2 for the computers that ran store operations at each location.

When did you work for Egghead? I used to be your competitor--I worked for Software City in both the UK and here. Egghead is the only other retail software company name I remember from that time, but I have no idea if we had significant market penetration. The competition might have been merely technical.

I worked part time for Egghead from 1988 to around 1994. I spent most of my time at Store 14 down in San Diego.

I did Software City between 85 and 88, I think, in London and Michigan.

It's a weird thing to think back to--all those different platforms, and the dinky office software and the Q*bert orDaley Thompson's decathlon or whatevers...

Yeah. When I started working there we had three sections of software, Apple II, PC, and Macintosh. The Commodore 64 section had been dismantled just a little bit before I started. The other big chain in the area was Software Etc. I also remember that San Diego has one of the first CompUSA locations. I think they were originally CompWarehouse or something like that.

Is anyone else having strange behaviors with iOS 6.0.1 Mail app and the mailboxes area? I hit the arrow to choose which mailbox I want to go into, and it flops back to where it was. When I hit the button to move an email into a folder, the side tab opens to select which folder to drop it, and then it pops back out, as if I had hit cancel. When I go to delete a number of emails, as I select a bunch, they all suddenly become de-selected, except the one my finger is just on. It's really starting to annoy me. And keeping me from updating the iPhone to iOS 6.

eta: this is all on my iPad, with it in horizontal view. Not sure if it's doing it in vertical mode or not.

It's kinda sad that softwarecity.com is actually about Software City. It's one page, which includes this paragraph:

The first franchised location opened in Montvale, New Jersey in 1983. Other locations followed quickly. When a national magazine wrote about the new franchised software store opportunities, it referred to Software City as "America's #1 Software Dealer." In 1984, 34 new locations opened. Software City stores opened in Canada, England and Puerto Rico. By the end of the 1980s, Software City had 99 franchised locations.

It says they still exist.

I don't really think they still exist.

At one point Egghead was the largest software retailer in the USA, but the computer superstores killed them. When the huge stores started to really take off Egghead and Software Etc and other software only stores were locked into small footprint retail outlets and didn't have the floor space to expand and compete.