What was the first OS you've ever used?

[bhanson]

Oldest Compy: Apple IIe

 

[FrustratedUser]

Mac OS 6
Upgraded to MAC OS 7.5 and then had to downgrade to POS Windows 3.1/3.1.1

 

[lawrenceku]

windows 3.1

 

[Night201]

Originally posted by: Dark Jedi
whatever you used to run stuff on a Vic 20

I had one of those: "The Friendly Computer"

For PC, I think it was somewhere around DOS 2.x or 3.x ish. I remember vividly when DOS 5.0 came out. As stated above, Dosshell was great and it had so many cool little programs in it. Ah, the days...

 

[hootpie]

Unix in the computer lab of my junior high "Intro to Typing" class. That was about 8 years ago. First OS I used a lot was Win95, then Win98 came out a month or so later...that was my first OS install

I briefly had to learn to use DOS so I could play video games at my cousin's house.

 

[shortylickens]

Plenty of people have already said it, but I started with DOS 2 or 3. I cant remember which.

I do remember the nice commands in DOS 5 as a big improvement.

 

[willstay]

DOS 3.x

My first experices was on -
Intel 286
640 KB RAM
No Harddisk
1.2 MB Floppy to boot DOS 3.x
Swapped by another 1.2 MB Floppy for Word Perfect (forgot version)

In course of time, I even got to play on 8086 which had four digit LCD screen and keyboard consisiting of only numbers. I could even time this machine on my watch when it performed 16 bit interger multiplication of array of numbers I fed.

 

[valkator]

hmm wow my first one is PC-DOS on an IBM PS1. That was because it crashed and i had to reinstall PC-DOS on my 30MB hard drive LOL.

 

[CrispyFried]

Originally posted by: ValuedCustomer
ROM BASIC (Sinclair ZX-81)

Same here.

 

[dingnecros]

dos 6.3 and win 3.1

 

[DigitalX]

DOS 2 or 3....mid-1980s

 

[silverbuyer]

Dunno,

Played around with Mac OS in Elementary School, then Win 3.1 at home, and had an Amiga before that? I'm .

 

[Tostada]

**** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ****

It was a 64K RAM system with 38,911 BASIC bytes free, of course.

I got a C64 on my 8th birthday (1983), but my dad was a teacher and before the C64 he brought home an Atari 400 over the summer when I was 5 and an Atari 800 with the floppy drive when I was 6. When I was 6 or 7 we had a Timex Sinclair for awhile, but I think we took it back. My neighbor had a TRS-80, and I used it to figure out annoying things to do with the display computers at Radio Shack.

I don't know if they even had a name for the C64 OS. It was just "the OS" and it was built into ROM. Computers before the Mac were more like a BIOS that took you directly to a BASIC shell. It seems strange to even call it an OS. It wasn't CP/M -- that was something different. The C64 didn't have CP/M (the C128 had a CP/M compatible mode that nobody used, though).

The first graphical OS I used was probably my friend's dad's Mac in 1985, but I did get GEOS for the C64 in 1986.

I got a Tandy 1000 in 1987. I think that was right about when DOS 3 came out. We eventually upgraded it to 640K and added a 3.5" floppy drive, but still no hard drive. The Tandy 1000 was indestructible. It was a 7 MHz 8088 that just wouldn't die. It was a really cool-looking computer at the time. The original IBM PC always had a greenish screen that made it look really low-tech, and the Mac had a nice black & white screen, but it was stilly really grayich. The Tandy came with a really good monitor that was true white on solid black. At the time it was almost futuristic.

I got a 386SX-16 in '89 or '90. That thing actually had a 100MB hard drive. I spent most of my time dialing into BBS's and downloading McHenry boobie pictures. Still just used DOS.

Then I got a Pentium 90 in 1994 when I went to college, but that's not the stone age anymore, so it's not very interesting to talk about. I still remember thinking Windows for Workgroups 3.11 really sucked, but you had to use it and this little Trumpet WinSock program to get on the Internet with a PC. Well, you didn't have to, but there just weren't too many DOS programs to compete with the Windows versions of Mosaic, WS-FTP and Eudora, which is pretty much all you used when you were on the net.

 

[viethr]

First one I can remember was Windows 3.11. A friend of mine had an ollllllld Mac but no clue what the os was.

 

[jose]

Multix first , then Unix 2 yrs before getting a Zenith pc w/ dos , back in 1986..

 

[yokomo]

I just rember having to type in "run hello" and then "brun bugertime" alot!! back in the days of tape drives and modular floppy drives that stacked on top of each other and were the size of small toasters.... man back then a modded case was one that you took the top off of it so you could get to the ram sticks easier so you could wiggle them to get the stinking thing to boot like every 3 time you restarted....that was like the mid 80's for me..

 

[NicColt]

>but I did get GEOS for the C64 in 1986.

so did I oh the memories, I also was using CP/M at the time.

 

[jerryjg]

I got the 199.99 wal-mart Microtel pc a couple of years ago.It came with Lycoris Desktop LX.The computer sucked and fried the memory and the hard drive and the os krashed.

 

[jerryjg]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
you are all going to laugh at me

windows 98

HA AHA - ha ha ha ! (theres about 20 or 30 people here in my office laughing at you right now!)

 

[TackleDummy]

DOS 3x on a comp with no hard drive. I was pretty young and I don't even remember what brand of comp it was.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

If I remember correctly it was either MS-DOS 5.0 or System 6.0.7. In order it went something like this...

MS-DOS 5.0 -> MS-DOS 6.0 -> System 6.0.7 -> System 7.0 -> System 7.5 -> Windows 95 -> System 7.6.1 -> Mac OS 8.0 -> Mac OS 8.1 -> Mac OS 8.6 -> Windows 98 -> Windows 98SE -> Windows 2000 Professional

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: jerryjg
I got the 199.99 wal-mart Microtel pc a couple of years ago.It came with Lycoris Desktop LX.The computer sucked and fried the memory and the hard drive and the os krashed.

Wow... Sounds like a peice of crap.

 

[bjc112]

Win 3.1 / Win 95

 

[Bateluer]

Some version of DOS, don't remember what version. It was an old 286 system. We actually successfully put Win 3.1 on it, but it was dog slow.

Unless you count the old Commodore 64, but I have no idea what OS that used.

 

[munchow2]

DOS for sure... not sure what version. I was only like 7.

Cd..
dir/p

hahaha the days of dos.