wiebeest Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 The first home computer I owned was the MSX. Then I got myself the immortal c-64. Then my first pc, a 386 with DOS. It had an GUI also, which wasn't Windows, but I can't recall it's name. Dosshell I think? Afterwards Windows 95 and then Windows 98SE which I had until off course XP. Never bothered too much with stuff like Linux. Then I experianced OS X through PearPc, which I loved at first glance, but was SLOOOWWW. Jumped the OS X x86/ Hackingtosh since 10.4.1. :censored2: Was amazed with the speed improvements in 10.4.3. Never upgraded since to the newer updates, because all the hassle with the lack of SSE3 on my Athlon64 Winchester. Used my Hackingtosh as the primairely OS for iTunes, e-mail & surfing and switched to my WinXP partition for all the other stuff. Got my MacBook last summer which wasn't a dissapointment by far. Love it. Only thing it's not suited for is gaming since it's got a mere 64mb shared memory. Eversince I can't stand my XP PC without a good OS X themed WindowBlinds skin applied... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-256168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACC0RD22 Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 First OS I ever got acclimated with was 3.1. I used it on my dads old laptop all the time to play some poker game. Then we got a desktop, which still had 3.1, and I remember playing Ski Free forever. Going to my aunts house to use her computer (she had a Win 95 system) was such a treat, until my family FINALLY upgraded to a Win 98 system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-256488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac and Cheese Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 My Grandfather bought me a TRS-80 when I was 9 years old!!! He was a programer. I had a 300 page book of programs that I never even got past page 5 or 6! TRS80--->Apple II--->Amiga--->Performa 475--->PPC 7200--->G3 Tower--->iBookG3--->PowerbookG4---> HPDV8000(Laptop)--->iMacCoreDuo(17")--->iMacCore2Duo(24")---->Waiting for a quad core iMac!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-257087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asapreta Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 I Used Sinclair ZX-81 Systems, then, TRS80 models I and III (Microsoft was there), then Apple DOS, Commodore C64 Basic and DOS, Amiga Workbench 1.3, 2 and so on... then...... DOS 3.3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-257106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xphillyx Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Win 95 back when I had a 4 GB HD on my old HP Good times. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-257270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmaniac Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Sinclair ZX81. 1k RAM was all you needed........ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-257307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 First computer I used had punch cards for input and white and green computer paper for output. The following year, we had terminals with real CRT's to type at. A few years later, bought my first computer - a TRS-80. So, my first DOS was TRS-DOS later replaced by NewDOS and others for the TRS-80. Atari's, Commodores and finally the original 1984 128K Mac followed. my dad got an md in that kind o compy, now, he doesnt know how to turn one on (not joking) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-265720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayRx1981 Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 Technically, my first computer was a commodore 64, but I couldn't tell you anymore what OS it ran, so I went with my next closest OS. MS-DOS (2.1, I think) preloaded onto a Tandy 1000HX (with start of the art 8088 processing doncha know). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-266587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudoxh4 Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Windows 3.1 for the win. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-269479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey M Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 (edited) My mom built a computer and her work installed windows 2000 on it.i hated windows 2000. Edited January 6, 2007 by Casey M Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-269628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstar Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 My way is 1991 - TR-DOS (256k RAM clone of ZX Spectrum with 5.25" FDD) 1993 - CP/M-80 (on custom-made computer based on old good Z80 processor, 512K RAM) 1995 - DOS 6.22/DOS 7/Windows 95 (AMD 486 DX100, 4MB RAM) 1997 - Windows 98 (Pentium 120, 16MB RAM) 1999 - Windows NT4 WS (Pentium 200, 32MB RAM) 2001 - Windows 2000 WS (AMD K6-3 450, 128MB RAM) 2002 - Windows 2000 WS (Intel Pentium-III 1200, 512MB RAM) 2003 - Windows XP Pro (Dual Intel Pentium-III 1200, 512MB RAM) 2004 - Windows XP Pro (Dual Intel XEON 2.66, 1 GB RAM) 2006 - MacOS X (P-IV 630, 2GB RAM) Next will be Mac Pro Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-269662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBK.Xscape Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 haha mine was windows 98 on some old manilla cased computer my dad got from his friend. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-269777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBK.Xscape Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 haha mine was windows 98 on some old manilla cased computer my dad got from his friend. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-269778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilhood Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Well, I started off on the C64 with BASIC.. I was about 3-7 years old! I stuck with it until my bro part-exchanged it for an Amiga 500 which was running Amiga Workbench OS. Then he got an Amiga 1200 which went through many changes, and ended up as a PowerPC Tower System with a Blizzard GFX card. I used to use Mac OS 8 via the Shapeshifter emulator quite often too. Those were the days At the same time with the Amiga I also had a Sega Megadrive, but didn't get the SNES until much much later on. My first proper PC system blew my mind away, because it came with some pretty outstanding games. It was a Win98 Packard Bell system, and came with Unreal and Fallout, what better games to show someone coming from the days of the Amiga? I still remember watching the Unreal intro sequence for the first time Experiencing Windows for the first time was funny, because it looked horrible to my eyes by comparison to my bro's customized Amiga OS, but obviously, it performed a hell of a lot better. I went through 98, ME (which was a pile of {censored}), 2K (which I loved) and now XP/Vista/OSX. I never owned a real Mac, until my bro brought home a G4 one day from work for my dad because it was being dumped out back. Pawel. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-272072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 MS-DOS 3.1 Had these big spiral books for manuals. Still got them somewhere. My first pc: Franklin PC 8000 (Bought at Sears if you can believe it) 8088 Processor (No, not a Pentium, 486, or even a 386) 512kb ram (yeah, half a meg) Two 5.25 inch floppy drives. 4 color monitor That was the days. I played some nice games on it and learned how to survive in a text based OS. Then I got a 486DX4 100mhz with 8 megs ram, sound card, and cd rom drive. (it was huge when the 100mhz barrier was broken). The DX4 was the same as the first Pentium but the new revisions of the Pentium slowly gained ahead. I ran Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, then upgraded to Windows 95. With my HUGE 32 meg ram upgrade (it cost $300!!). Then I waited till I got me a HP (mistake) Celeron 400mhz and it had 128 megs ram, and had an agp slot. Went agp and was gaming big time. Then later got a P4 1.7ghz with 512 megs ram and was in heaven with the speed jump. Really used that machine, then finally built my last one the Athlon 3000+ with 1 gb ram. Had up to a X1600 card in it. Now I got my an iBook and I am going mac. Pc gaming to me is just to much. I would rather do xbox live and dsl is coming soon. Then get a 360. Ok to much for this topic, but I love telling my history in the pc world. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-273034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 (edited) my first os was commodore 64 then on to DOS > all windows versions from 3 to 2k3 > then on to osx i still have windows 3.1 install disks and 3.1.1 upgrade disks still on 5 1/4" floppy. Edited January 11, 2007 by DiaboliK Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-273237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Aww, I remember my first OS, it was Windows 95, and the first application I ever used was a Monster Truck game. Monster Truck Madness? Awesome game... Windows 3.11 Workgroups/Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows XP/Mac OS X 10.4 and the stuff in my sig. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-273315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwer Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 DSM aka Digital Standard MUMPS on a PDP/11-something. Fun. Mid to late 70's I think. Of course I was only 3 at the time Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-273823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) I remember playing with a really old Mac in kindergarten back in 1996... can't even guess what System it was. After that, my dad bought a succession of PCs and OSes, each a couple years apart. Win98-->Win98SE-->WinME for a total of two days-->XP Home-->various pre-release builds of Vista-->Tiger Hackintosh with crummy HW support-->my shiny new 10.4.8 MacBook Pro. So yeah, I'm in the younger group of compy owners. Edited January 12, 2007 by ErBiC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-274029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Caveman OS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-274166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 (edited) come to think of it, i voted os9, but i had my first experiences with 98. i remember my mom trying to load encyclopedia britanica on my dads brand new laptop wit 98 on it. i remember crying when it got a virus and feeding it apple juice to make it better i used os9 willingly afterthat. Edited January 21, 2007 by Soundless Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-281126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard! Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 I don't even remember what was my first computer. But it was way before the before DOS/System 6.x. I was 5 year old then. All I remember from that age was the games I played on the computer (Super Mario Tetris, Solidare and so on and so on ,). And that it had a cassette to load a game. No floppy's no CD's just a cassette. And It was pretty fun back then. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-281132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
one_7 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 my first os is windows 95 together with my 1st computer.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-281200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 windows 95 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-282464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I don't even know if you could call it an operating system. My first computer was an Atari 400XL. All it was was a keyboard that hooked up to a TV. It had BASIC on it that was all. I could never afford the tape drive (and I mean as in audio tape) to store or run programs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35703-what-was-your-first-operating-system/page/2/#findComment-282654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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