DOS on a harddisk of less than 30 mb, which was in those days a sensational capacity, it could contain more data than on a floppy. Unbelievable.
Hello, I can't say if using Commodore or Spectrum counts, because I don't know what these things ran on. But my first machine that I can really say I used and ran was an 8086 XT with 640KB RAM, no hard disk, CGA monitor, 2 5.25" floppies - and DOS 3.0. One of the best, most stable DOSs made, alongside 5.0. Mrk
Exactly same specs machine here, 1988 if I remember well. You could make an extra Ramdisk as well (128 KB). So you had 768 KB. Gerard
@Mrk according to wikipedia, the commodore sx-64 (which was the first computer I ever used) ran under "Commodore BASIC 2.0" OS. Still I voted DOS, which was the first one I *really* used... commodore doesn´t count
the first OS i used was windows 95 with my old Viglen machine. works pefectly to this day. two reboots in 4 years of use must be a record for windows. and even those where because of a scratched CD.
You had a video screen?! DEC's RSTS-11, then many months later RSTS/E running on the new, super fast PDP 11/40, accessed from home via a 110 baud (acoustic coupler) dialup using an ASR-33 teletype. (You could type faster than the characters would print and could get way ahead of the printing if you were a good typist.)
Some of us are really showing our age.... Win 3.1 on an 8086 XT, local computer shop built PC...I can not remember all the other details... wish I could but it was in 1994 I think. It almost turned me off to PC computing. Only when I jumped light years to ME OS with High Speed cable did I really get excited.
Same configuration as my Compaq XT in 1985. Subsequently replaced second floppy drive with a 20MG hard drive at a cost of $125. Considered that almost "limitless" capacity at the time. Then came my PC clone with Windows 3.1 and a Sony PC with Windows 95. Those were the days! Rob
WoW. Some of you guys sure that they didn't run from vacumm tubes? Pleased to say my first O/S was Windows 98 but my best friend who toured me thru his college lab once while majoring in computers i got to see my first TAPE MACHINES
If you don't count my C64, first one (at the office) was an Osborne running under CP/M. I heard that Bill Gates liked it so much he "borrowed" a lot of its features for DOS, which for us meant switching to DOS (on an XT) involved very little learning curve. (Edit) As a P.S., those were the days that one of the critical factors you looked at when buying a new system (or even software for it) was what percentage it was "IBM compatible".
From the Commodore 64 which was programmable in machinecode (if you were a really accurate typist) I went straight to Windows 95 So I kind of missed out on the DOS experience.
DOS 2 on a Compaq Portable with 2 floppies here.... goes back pretty far eh? Actually, I had a little Timex Sinclair before that with 64k memory.
My first OS was Windows 95 (OSR2 I think because it had Internet Explorer) on a Pentium MMX machine, back in 1997 when I was all of five years old But at that time I didn't really have my own computer, I'd just use the computer at a friend's house for a short while. I remember being so amazed by Windows 95, people would tell me why I always look at the PC with my mouth wide open When I got my own PC, it was 2000 and the OS that came with it was Windows 2000. So I guess I need to say that Windows 2000 was the first real OS that I used
