Hmm. I may be a bit of an anomoly. First one I ever technically used was a mainframe that my dad brought home from CBS records in perhaps 1976. I was pretty young, but still remember making my very own "punch card". I have no idea what it did, as my dad really just did if for me, but still, it was wierd and very big and very very loud. It took up a lot of room, and the neighbor kids thought we were like the jetsons or something lol. I remember too when my dad brought home the very first Apple computer, complete with two paddles and the games Asteroids and Star Wars. We had amigas, commodores (64,128,vic20 - anyone remember pitfall?), ibm suitcases with tiny screens and foldout keyboards (lots of different ones), TI, many others I cant even recall the name. I remeber when my dad would literally build a printer. It printed on a silver paper that was about 5 inches wide. The first really really awesome OS I used was the one for the Atari 520st. Man, it had a mouse, a destkop complete with icons, and a program you could draw with using the mouse. Wow. Oh, and a bunch of text bases RPG type games. Then came DOS and Windows. That was huge. Win95,98,NT, all were so ground breaking, absolutely astounding. But my dad still says to this day that he could do more with a mainframe back then than (comparatively) anything they have out today. He also likes to drag on about token rings as well... but I like ethernet better personally, having to have used token rings when I was young. I am only 39, but sometimes I feel like I am ancient when I think about all the stuff I have seen come about technology wise in my lifetime. Atari, colecovision, intellivision, real video games in huge arcades when they first came about (that was awesome as a kid), video discs, video tape players (vhs and beta), camcorders (no more 8mm), CD and DVDs -- that was really a big deal back then. Microwaves -- that was also a big deal. Soooo many really really ground breaking technological advances I lived right through, and since my dad worked in the tech field, we had most of them at some point. Sul.
Dos and fabulous Windows 3.1 My first Pc was a Olivetti 8086 SX 16Mhz and 40MB harddisk & 1MB ram whit Windows 3.1. Here in Denmark it cost in 1992 almost half of my monthly salary. ( I was a student in 1992). But today I have a wonder machine, whit windows 7 and so on,.... but my best Pc will always bee this Olivetti sx 16 mhz whit windows 3,1
Maybe you guys can help me remember, I was far too young But it was a command line OS, I'd say DOS, but as far as I've seen the text on DOS has been distinctly white, where as the text on this OS was yellow on a black background. I believe it had a preloaded word processor (and possibly other apps), it was brought home by my dad from his old shop.
On the first Apple computers in the early 80's...got into BASIC quite a bit with them. Then I went backwards and worked with Fortran77 and Watfive... ..then had no interest in computers for a while....got back into them in the Win3.x days.
Oh no, that is not right Those old systems taught you a LOT about hardware. You had to actually know something to even get a cdrom drive to work back then. The knowledge learned is worth its weight in gold as far as I am concerned. All depends on just what kind of geek you are I guess Sul.
During my school days, i have used DOS operating system. Actually i haven't used it, we have a small class room session on computers and our teacher allowed us to enter our name on it. At that was my first experience with computers. To be very honest, those computers are available at such a rural/backward area that you can't imagine...They were placed (5 Nos.) inside one AC room.. After that i got another chance with Windows 98 in some other place..that was also a very remote and backward area.. But at that time i have no experience or you can say 0 experience with computers. During my Viva session (Oral Test) i was asked to remove the screen saver, and i said that i don't know how to remove it...I got only 20/40 After 3 years gap period i opted computers as a subject for 11th and 12th std. but this time i got a chance with XP, and this is the only platform which i am using till date in my home system... I am still learning the basics...
Was going through my Windows OSes (I think I got all of them) anyone remember WinFLP codename Eiger? (XP) edit : forgot how quickly this installed, it's a hack of xpsp2/2003 codebase which came out in '06 for low end PCs or client - xp flying on a P 233, 64-128mb ram - currently running in a vm, but will probably upgrade an old 98 machine and bring back to use. The OS I really got going on was unix based back in the day - early 70s. Now'er days it makes me lol in today's standards that I used punch cards and worked in single Mbs but it worked and we got things done. I was probably a much better programmer back then because of it.
Commodore 64 was my first one. Remember spending hours writing my own programs for it and spending more hours correcting the typos so the programs would work. Got away from computing after that and when I got back into it 98 SE was the rage of the day.
Was that on the actual "floppy" floppy or did you get to use a tape drive? Did you buy books that had code you could type in? lol, those were the days. I wonder if that stuff was the start of open source? Sul.
the first OS that i used was Windows 95 back at my high school days but the 1st that i really get to use every day was Windows 98 on my brother PC was a clon and was very very good PC
Gee... So hard to remember , so many years back.... and then also not only to try to remember what O.S. one has worked with but also the correct chronology of it all.... As far as I remember..... I started out with a ZX81 (Sinclair ??) which was defect somehow and I had to return it , then later I bought the TI-99/4A with its built in "O.S." and Basic language (in it's own way then nothing ever surpassed this computer for me), then because of lack of peripherals for the TI-99/4A I think I were around the Amiga 500, until while I was sitting programming it then it spontaneously rebooted "workbench" so I returned that computer to the shop too, then I tried an "IBM PC compatible PC" which were delivered in a software condition where it did not work and the seller (a huge warehouse) were not up to the task of fixing it - so that went back too. So I ended spending a lot of money on peripherals for the TI-99/4A both trying to purchase from my own country and from the USA but companies such as "Corcomp, Myarc and retailer "Tenex" all closed so it were hard to get hardware , at least to a decent price... First decent working "IBM PC compatible PC" I worked with was a transportable (drag-able) 8086 X?T IBM (?) PC with DOS X I remember upgrading to DOS 3.X (I think). But I've also been around CPM on a 16KB or 64 KB system , still got that somewhere , box itself burried one place , keyboard burried another place and software burried a third place.... But it ofcourse all depends on how you define O.S. . Ofcourse I've also been around Win 3.1 & 3.11 on 286 & 386 systems....
