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So this makes you a candidate for the ultimate retro-computing challenge :

"¹ If you’re one of those retro-computing archivists, I guess this poses an extraordinary challenge even greater than possessing a Tandy Video Information System: Can you track down one of the three remaining copies of OS/2 for Mach 20?"

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Coincidentally, I got a job at Tandy right out of college and I got to see the demise of the VIS firsthand.

There was a big warehouse in Fort Worth where un-sellable products ended up, so I definitely could've won that challenge. They had pallet-loads of brand-new VIS machines bundled with all 20-odd games for around $49.

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