First Operating System You've Used?
I notice there's a variety of age ranges here, and I seem to be on the younger side, so this may be an interesting question to ask.
I remember first using Windows 98, when I was a child, my first memory is from 1999 (my mother verified when it happened) and my dad said he stuck with '98 until XP came out. so it was around the turn of the century.
If you don't see your OS in the polls, just reply and tell us what it was.
I remember first using Windows 98, when I was a child, my first memory is from 1999 (my mother verified when it happened) and my dad said he stuck with '98 until XP came out. so it was around the turn of the century.
If you don't see your OS in the polls, just reply and tell us what it was.
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However, I actually used Mac OS 7 first during my later years in primary school. Oh, those iMac G3s... I miss them.
That would have been MacOS 9 on those iMacs. I used them towards the end of high school in certain classes.
It was actually called System 7 - didn't change to the MacOS name until 7.5. That was mostly on Motorola-based 68k Macs (LC, Performa, Quadra, etc) - I think PowerPC support was added in 7.1 if I recall correctly.
For me, I started with MS-DOS 5.0. I was introduced to Macs in primary school, those were Mac LCs running System 7.0 back at the start of 1992. Those would have 4 MB RAM, 80 MB HDD, and connected via AppleTalk. There was no internet access so it was ClarisWorks 2.0, Kid Pix, and utilising one of those 6 or 10 CD stackers connected via SCSI to share multimedia titles. Before that it was a small handful of Commodores.
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I did have an old hand-me-down computer with Windows 98 that was mainly used for word processing while I was a student but I don't really count that as my first computer because it was little more than an appliance to me and the HP Pavillion was much more of a personal investment. I still have that system and although its internet-useful days have come to an end it's still useful for films, music and video games.
You got to roll the clock back another decade or two for some of us really old geezers.
IBM PC class machines were late comers to the computing scene.
I feel old.
Holy cow, how is the seniors home? :P :P :P
There many other OS than MS-DOS/Windows/MacOS/MacOSX.
At home, it was maybe a year or two later when we got the 486 (which I was using whenever I first joined this forum) which was running DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1.
The first computer I ever owned was a 286 with DOS 4.01 and that was when I got into computers.
True, but I don't know of them besides OS/2, PC-DOS, A CP/M. So I said if it's not found, just comment it,
It was about four or five years later I became a software enthusiast--if that's even the proper term.
Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 98 in 2006 and Vista was released in 2007 so it's possible that his gran waited until her old 98 tin gave up the ghost and then replaced it with a brand new Vista machine. There was no mention of both OSs running on the same hardware.
The first OS I've ever used on a computer that was mine was Windows Millennium Edition on a Toshiba Satellite laptop back in 2003, The first OS I've used on another family member's computer was Windows XP Home Edition RTM on a beige Compaq Presario desktop, I remember taking apart floppy disks (I was only 3 years old back then), and I vaguely remember playing some games on there.
However, before that, we had one of the Apple II with the big 5 inch floppies. I remember spending hours playing on that, though I've never been fond of Apple products since then.
I think we were all pretty young when we statrted with computers. I was 4-5. It was a 486, DOS 6 and 3.1
The TI-99/4a didn't really have an OS either, unless you counted the UCSD P-System, which on that machine was so slow it was worse than useless.
Probably the first machine I really had a chance to use that had a separate OS was an Apple II series running Applesoft DOS 3.2 and/or 3.3.
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It was awesome. We had a multi-user, multi-tasking OS back in the 70's for crying out loud!
My first personal computer was a Gateway FX which ran Vista :shock:. However, Vista was good for me, never had any problems. Of course little me wasn't doing much other than playing some games and using Windows Media Player and Movie Maker.
(It's like this but blue instead of orange [I still have it but the mobo is fried]).