What was the first OS you've ever used?

[TonyRic]

High School DEC PDP-11 through its basic and cobol interpreters and punch cards. Of course this was 1981. We were the the top when we received our brand new Teletypes for it. We were the sh$t.

 

[pcgeek11]

DOS 3 with Geoworks for the GUI.

 

[ColKurtz]

Whatever OS came on my Dad's Tandy back in the early 80's. Basic?

 

[Grant]

had a Commodore, VIC 20 and C64. Also used early versions of DOS.

 

[dderolph]

Since the first computer I owned was a Commodore 64, the first OS would have been the CP/M OS on the Commodore 64. I believe CP/M stood for Control Program for MicroComputer.

The next OS after that, as nearly as I can recall, was DOS 3.x or 4.x. Later came Win 3.1.

 

[timswim78]

First Computer was a TRS-80 (Sold at Radio Shack).

My first machine with a hard drive ran DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1

 

[Spydermag68]

First OS was Apple's DOS for the Apple ][e and then I found David DOS. It booted and loaded programs faster than the original.

 

[casper114]

MS Dos here

 

[JonnyBlaze]

dos 3.1 i think

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Irix

 

[rbV5]

I can't remember the OS, but IIRC, it was BASIC programming using a teletype and punchtape circa 1974 in High school. I recall you could take only a single term of computer science for credit, after that you could continue without receiving credit. There was plenty of room in class since it wasn't real popular in the logging community I grew up in LOL.

 

[TheLiberalTruth]

GS/OS on the Apple ][ GS
I've also owned computers running Win 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Fedora

 

[TheLiberalTruth]

Originally posted by: rbV5
I can't remember the OS, but IIRC, it was BASIC programming using a teletype and punchtape circa 1974 in High school. I recall you could take only a single term of computer science for credit, after that you could continue without receiving credit. There was plenty of room in class since it wasn't real popular in the logging community I grew up in LOL.

PUNCHTAPE! pwnage. My father told me once he remembers using punchtape/cards in high school.
He graduated HS in '72.

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: TheLiberalTruth

Originally posted by: rbV5
I can't remember the OS, but IIRC, it was BASIC programming using a teletype and punchtape circa 1974 in High school. I recall you could take only a single term of computer science for credit, after that you could continue without receiving credit. There was plenty of room in class since it wasn't real popular in the logging community I grew up in LOL.

PUNCHTAPE! pwnage. My father told me once he remembers using punchtape/cards in high school.
He graduated HS in '72.

We had a picture in the computer lab of the "building" that housed the computer we were teletyping into. I lived out in the sticks, and IIRC the computer was in the big city (Portland) Our workstations were desks, piece of paper and a pencil.

 

[IEC]

MS DOS 2.0, and this was back in the Tandy 1000 days. Mmm... 286 processor lol. 30 whopping megs of memory. I'm eighteen now, so I basically started on computers by age 4

 

[pack1]

Windows 3.1, first PC bought had 95 on it.

 

[TheLiberalTruth]

Originally posted by: rbV5

Originally posted by: TheLiberalTruth

PUNCHTAPE! pwnage. My father told me once he remembers using punchtape/cards in high school.
He graduated HS in '72.

We had a picture in the computer lab of the "building" that housed the computer we were teletyping into. I lived out in the sticks, and IIRC the computer was in the big city (Portland) Our workstations were desks, piece of paper and a pencil.

OUCH!
I don't really understand though. You wrote out your code/pseudo-code w/ paper and pencil and then what? My old man told me very little about the punch cards, although he said if you dropped them and got them out of order, you were effed.

 

[rbV5]

I don't really understand though. You wrote out your code/pseudo-code w/ paper and pencil and then what?

LOL, there was but a single interface to the Computer we all had to share.

This looks somewhat familiar (my High School days are somewhat fuzzy) There was a modem connected to the punchtape reader/writer that we had to fight over. Most of your class time was spent somewhere other than sitting at the teletype.

Yup, looks like the dialer on the right. (upper left pic)

 

[TheLiberalTruth]

Originally posted by: rbV5

LOL, there was but a single interface to the Computer we all had to share.

This looks somewhat familiar (my High School days are somewhat fuzzy) There was a modem connected to the punchtape reader/writer that we had to fight over. Most of your class time was spent somewhere other than sitting at the teletype.

Yup, looks like the dialer on the right. (upper left pic)

OMG...*Shudders*
My old man described something more like this
Oh, btw: My high school days are pretty fuzzy, too, and that was only 4 years ago for me. :laugh:

 

[ShadowBlade]

Win 3.1
Although i did use some kind of Apple in a "class" when i was about 6, dunno what the OS was though

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: TheLiberalTruth

Originally posted by: rbV5

LOL, there was but a single interface to the Computer we all had to share.

This looks somewhat familiar (my High School days are somewhat fuzzy) There was a modem connected to the punchtape reader/writer that we had to fight over. Most of your class time was spent somewhere other than sitting at the teletype.

Yup, looks like the dialer on the right. (upper left pic)

OMG...*Shudders*
My old man described something more like this
Oh, btw: My high school days are pretty fuzzy, too, and that was only 4 years ago for me. :laugh:

Yea, thats a bit different, thats a punchcard, IIRC, it took one of those for every line of code, so you would have a stack of them to feed into the card reader. The punchtape I used was like a grocery reciept, the more code you wrote...the longer it got, and you just feed it into the reader.

 

[rbV5]

A little off-topic, but This was the "wordprocessor" I learned to use in our graphics department to print the school paper...another interesting relic when compared to todays technology. It may look ancient, but it wasn't all that long ago it was in widespread use.

 

[kamper]

I remember my dad brought home some little box from work with green characters. That must have been in the late 80's. Our first computer at home was a 286 running some DOS (no idea which). It blows me away to think that my Dad (who went through computer science much like I am now) was older then than I am now and went through all that time without personal access to a machine

 

[Illusio]

whatever you used to run stuff on a Vic 20

 

[Leros]

Windows 3.1 & OS2 simultaneously