IBM OS/2 Warp 3 (Connect, Blue Spine) - Installation & Setup

IBM released OS/2 Warp 3 in 1994. It came in two versions: Blue Spine and Red Spine. Blue was intended for fresh installs on new computers. In other words, it had no other operating system installed. It came with built in DOS and Windows 3.1 support (WIN-OS/2). Red was designed to utilise existing Windows 3.1/DOS installations. Warp 3 allowed you to connect to the Internet using a dial-up modem.

A later version, Connect, also with Blue and Red versions, came later in 1995. This came with support for Local Area Network (LAN) connectivity as a means of accessing the Internet.

In this video, I will be installing OS/2 Warp 3 Connect, Blue Spine, onto a VirtualBox 7 setup. There will be another video where I actually use the system by running different apps and games.

(0:00) Intro
(0:32) Disk Drive Setup
(2:40) System Installation
(5:29) Installing Drivers, Features, and LAN configuration
(9:52) First Boot Into The Desktop (Get Rid Of The Desktop Sounds!)
(11:25) Test Network Connectivity & Web Browser Test
(14:02) Installing FixPak 40
(23:55) Connection Check and SciTech Graphics Installation
(27:13) Configuring Display Graphics
(29:47) Installing IBM Works and IBM Multimedia Viewer

== The guide I used ==

https://gekk.info/articles/os2.html#os2warp3