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#1 Felype

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Posted 01 January 2014 - 07:08 PM

The title says all.

My first OS has: Win 95

#2 ETHANATOR360

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 12:28 AM

Windows 95 or 98 I can't remember I was like four

#3 distantcam

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 12:54 AM

Locomotive Basic 1.1, if that even counts as an OS.

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 04:41 AM

My father showed me MS DOS, but the first I actually used was Windows 98, then Windows 95. Logic.

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 04:54 AM

Yep, good (if you can call it that) old Windows 95.

Also, shouldn't the title be "What was your first OS?"

#6 theoriginalbit

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 05:01 AM

Simultaneously Windows 3.1 and 95.

View Postoeed, on 02 January 2014 - 04:54 AM, said:

Also, shouldn't the title be "What was your first OS?"
I would assume considering the same mistake was made in the post as well that English is not the native language to the poster.

Edited by theoriginalbit, 02 January 2014 - 05:02 AM.


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Posted 02 January 2014 - 05:18 AM

mac os 8
just barely though. os 9 came out a few months later

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 06:24 AM

I honestly don't know. First computer my parents got was an Amstrad, on which I would occasionally fire up PC-DOS (basically the same as what it booted into, but fancier) or GEM. I have no idea what its initial environment was.

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 06:54 AM

View PostBomb Bloke, on 02 January 2014 - 06:24 AM, said:

I honestly don't know. First computer my parents got was an Amstrad, on which I would occasionally fire up PC-DOS (basically the same as what it booted into, but fancier) or GEM. I have no idea what its initial environment was.
CP/M?

Edited by distantcam, 02 January 2014 - 06:54 AM.


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Posted 02 January 2014 - 08:34 AM

Nah, I'd dug around the wiki before posting and decided it probably wasn't that.

Digging around further now, I'm fairly certain the machine would've been a PC1640 with a 20mb HDD instead of the secondary floppy drive (640K was written in large proud letters on the front). This would imply that it booted into MS DOS 3.something, DOS Plus likely being the variant I could load on top of that. It had access to GW-BASIC and BASIC2, the latter of which I made a graphical hangman game out of.

The machine was purchased by my parents as a work system for their plant center - they actually payed for it with plants. Since it was second-hand I'm not sure if it came with the original "install" disks, but it certainly came with a lot of the things and I still happen to have most (all?) of them, along with a couple of 5 1/4" floppy drives (the machine itself eventually wound up with some of my grandparents, who unfortunately shipped it off to the tip when they eventually upgraded - if I'd ever known they were planning that I'd've put my foot down on them holding it until I could take it).

This is a computer that'd take nearly a second to execute an ECHO statement in a batch file (most of which time was likely spent in reading the line from the drive, which produced a unique sort of whirring/beeping noise as it did so). I got a copy of Commander Keen 1 for it off a friend's computer - for like a month we couldn't get it to work, starting the game would make the computer appear to stall and we'd have to reboot it. Eventually I figured out that actually, unlike my friend's computer (which could run Windows and stuff and started the game in like two seconds), the Amstrad simply required two whole minutes to load the game. On a modern system under DOSBox you'd be doing well to spot that it had loading messages - when we eventually upgraded to a 486DX2 they snapped by in the blink of an eye.

Edited by Bomb Bloke, 02 January 2014 - 08:39 AM.


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Posted 02 January 2014 - 09:14 AM

View PostBomb Bloke, on 02 January 2014 - 08:34 AM, said:

they actually payed for it with plants
Is that code for they sold weed?

#12 Felype

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 09:22 AM

View Postoeed, on 02 January 2014 - 04:54 AM, said:

Yep, good (if you can call it that) old Windows 95.

Also, shouldn't the title be "What was your first OS?"
Sorry for the error.

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 09:50 AM

View Postdistantcam, on 02 January 2014 - 09:14 AM, said:

Is that code for they sold weed?
No, but I got payed for weeding.

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 10:09 AM

Hah. Windows XP.

#15 isavegas

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 11:44 AM

Not sure. I only know that it was Windows 95, 98, or 2000.

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Posted 02 January 2014 - 12:49 PM

I used Xubuntu, It's a Ubuntu based OS
then Windows XP

#17 tesla1889

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Posted 03 January 2014 - 02:36 AM

xubuntu? the xubuntu that was first released in 2006?

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Posted 03 January 2014 - 02:38 AM

The first OS I actually used was Windows 95 but the oldest OS I've used is MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.1.

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Posted 03 January 2014 - 10:40 AM

I think it was W95. :P

Edit: the oldest I've used is prodos 16 for the apple ii gs.

Edited by nutcase84, 03 January 2014 - 05:45 PM.


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Posted 03 January 2014 - 11:01 AM

Mine was XP...
Oldest OS I've used would probably be BASIC, rewritten for RedPower2





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