David Singer's Page of Pointers

The IBM Almaden Research Center home page has moved!

The IBM Almaden Research Center's home page has moved to its permanent home.

About this page and its server

This page is the original Web page that David Singer implemented using the OS/2 Gopher server, GoServe, and a customized filter.

Note: This page provides direct access to some of the more popular items on the underlying Gopher server. However, it does not show everything available on the Gopher server -- use index's main menu to see everything.

You can find a list of recent changes to this server here.

This server is maintained by David Singer.

IBM's Home Page Now Available

The IBM Home Page is now available to Web surfers everywhere.

About the IBM Almaden Research Center

The Almaden Research Center Home Page is the source of Almaden-related information.

OS/2 Information

There are several menus of OS/2 and Personal Systems information available; click here for the top menu, or read on for some highlights.

General OS/2 Information and Tools

Service Packs for many IBM products, including OS/2 Warp, are available from the IBM Personal Software File Library by anonymous FTP to ps.boulder.ibm.com. Change directory to ps/products and look around.
The ServicePak for OS/2 2.1 is available by anonymous FTP to software.watson.ibm.com. The availability notice is here, and here is an important update on price and support of the ServicePak.
The OS/2 Employee-Written Software collection is available; you can search for a specific title here.
The OS/2 Gopher client and server are available. The current version of the client is 1.9915, and the server is 2.00.
The ever-popular OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions list is available as a ZIPfile.
OS/2 and Personal Software Products news items are available.
Did you know that more than 5 million copies of OS/2 have been shipped?

Team OS/2 Information

Get your Team OS/2 information here! You can get logos and a membership list.
The latest Team OS/2 Newsletter is available as a ZIPped .INF file.
For more information, choose the Team OS/2 menu.

OS/2 Developer and Programmer Support Information

OS/2 programmers should visit C Set ++ Compiler News and the IBM Personal Software Products Developer Support Program.
The IBM Personal Software Products Support Center User's Guide is available as an ASCII file or as a ZIP file including both ASCII and .INF versions.
Selected OS/2 2.1 fixes and drivers are available; for a fuller selection, visit the software.watson.ibm.com FTP server.

Non-IBM-Originated OS/2 Information

The MIT OS/2 Users' Group has provided a WWW homepage for OS/2.
The San Francisco Bay Area OS/2 User's Group provides information about membership and upcoming activities.
There's a nice collection of OS/2 goodies at the University of Texas.
The "Unnamed OS/2 Gopher" is another nice place to look for information.
The Singapore OS/2 homepage is interesting.
Melissa Woo's Stupid OS/2 Tricks are now available as a HTML document.
There is additional non-IBM originated information about OS/2 available on the IBM Almaden Research Center Gopher server. The disclaimer explaining that this material didn't come from IBM is important for me to tell you to read.

Personal System Configurators and Reference Material

The IBM PS Assistant is a collection of .INF files which contain reference information about IBM PS/1, PS ValuePoint, PS/2, ThinkPads, options and operating systems. More than 1500 pages of technical, marketing, service, and general information is included; you'll need more than 4megabytes of disk space.

The US Personal Systems Configurator is an OS/2 Presentation Manager application which helps you configure Personal Systems hardware and software.

IBM Computer Virus Information Center

The IBM Computer Virus Information Center is made available courtesy of the IBM High Integrity Computing Laboratory at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. It contains:

Rexx Information

Rexx information is available at the Rexx Language Page.

Other IBM Information Servers

Client/Server Computing

Visit the IBM Client/Server Business Unit's Gopher server in Endicott, New York.

IBM Kiosk for Education

The IBM Kiosk for Education Web server at the University of Washington contains information of special interest to educational users.

IBMLink Gopher Server

IBM product announcements, IBM press releases, and other IBMLink services are available on this server. The main menu is here.

Anonymous FTP

The T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, operates an anonymous FTP server with many useful items.

Other Web Servers with IBM connections

This is not meant to be a complete list; it includes servers with information about IBM products and services, or servers where IBM provides significant support.

Information about IBM Power Parallel Systems is available courtesy of David Grossman at the Cornell Theory Center.

The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia is an effort to bring Thomas Jefferson's educational ideals into the twenty-first century by creating an electronic "Academical Village". IBM is a major sponsor.