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  1. 1. OS

    • DOS
      48
    • Windows 3.x
      33
    • Windows 9.x
      42
    • Windows 2000
      3
    • Windows NT/XP
      6
    • Mac OS System 6.x
      8
    • Mac OS System 7.x
      9
    • Mac OS 8.x
      1
    • Mac OS 9.x
      1
    • Mac OS X 10.0-10.3.9
      0
    • Before DOS/System 6.x
      29
    • Way, WAY, before DOS/System 6.x
      33


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Rammjet you are older than me, lol

My first was the umentioned Commodore Vic-20, with awesome 4k of ram, and running Vic20 OS, the name came from the addon card you can plug into the back of the Vic 20 to get awesome 20k RAM!!! 20Kbytes thats it.... some gams came in cartridges so one needed to remove the nemory expansion, but the memoy expansion was wonderfull for development. Also it have tapes as a recording unit, errandwolfe you probably are a little younger than me.

 

after that Commoore 64 and the TRS80 in school, then Dos, Dr. Dos - anyone remember that one?, Windows 1 -a joke really, Windows 2, Windows 3, Win98, WinMe, Win2000, WinXp, Win2003, OSX10.4

 

I have tried some linuxes distros and Vista.

 

im gonna stick with OSX (except for gaming)

 

one of my first games, Mule - rember that game, was fantastic.

 

ehem, first game in vic20 RAT RACE

good game i still reme,ber it fondly

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My first was something called PICOS DOS for Ohio Scientific personal computers (MC 6502, 20K Ram, 1 5 1/4 diskette drive - I think it had 160K capacity). Then Apple DOS 3.3, CP/M 80, CP/M-86, MacOS (can't tell the version, it was a MAC 128K), MS-DOS 2.11, MS-DOS 3.3, Xenix 286, MS-DOS 5, Xenix 386, Windows 2 386, Windows 3.11, MS-DOS 6, Netware 2, Netware 3, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.10, Windows 98, Aix 4, Windows 2000, HP/UX 10, HP/UX 11, multiple Linux distributions, Windows XP, Mac OSX, Windows 2003. I think that some are missing.

First one was OS 7.1 on a Quadra 605 (a.k.a. Performa 475) 680LC040 @ 25Mhz which could be overclocked to 33mhz if I remember correctly

Then I used:

Mac OS 7.5.1 (Quadra)

Mac OS 6.0.3(Mac SE/30)

Mac OS 7.5.5 (Quadra)

Mac OS 8.1 (Performa)

Win98

WinME (¬¬ not even a month)

WinXP (5 long years)

Mac OS X 10.4.7

Windows 3.1

 

Wow, that was back in the day. It was a Compaq computer with a P 90 mhz $3,500 +/-. Even better, It was skinned by Compaq with some funky tab browsing notebook on the side. Then, I deleted the operating system, fixed it and got into computers. To this day, I swear I didn't do it though. Just played with the power settings for the monitor.

Windows 3.1 on a Tandy PC for Radio Shack. I was like 4 years old and just learning to use a mouse and I would constantly accidently move icons around and I always thought I did something bad and got upset when my older sister (also thinking it was bad) would tell on me. I look back and remember at 4 years old I was memorizing DOS commands to play each of those games and boot Windows. I used to play Treasure Cove, Treasure Mountain, Bernstien Bears, Mega Race, The Lion King, and some Crayola game. My dad played Doom, Under a Killing Moon, and Myst. Then we got a top of the line Dell in 1998- Windows 98se, 733Mhz Pentium III with 256mb of ram, DVD-rom drive, and the sweetest flat screen CRT- a 17" Sony Trinitron. We actually still have it and it runs XP fairly well (with 512mb of ram).

Edited by iCrash

My OS:

 

Basic on C64

Dos 3.11 on a Tandy 1000TX

System 7.1 on a Centris 650

Os 7.5.5 on a Performa 6116CD

Windows 2000 on a 500mzh AMDk6-2 (I moved away and Hade to scrape a computer our of the Scrape Bin of the local PC Shop)

Windows XP on My Current system AMD64 3000+

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I had an Amega which ran on floppies :P then I got a dos based system. and so on.

255px-Amiga1000.jpg

 

with 900 Games for it:) My dad had a hacker friend ;)

 

The name amiga was selected by the developers from the Spanish word for a female friend.
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I had an Apple IIe. But it didn't have an OS =) because there was no hard drive. If you wanted a program, you wrote it or used a big big floppy disk. Then I had Mac System 6. It was black and white and I actually went on the internet with it. :thumbsup_anim:

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My very first 'contact' with a computer was in 1978 on an IBM System/370 mainframe running MVS as OS. The whole system had a footprint of a medium sized pub. I did a student job as night operator there. I also learned Fortran 4 on that monster. Yep, with punch cards...

Just for a laugh:

Big, fast disk drives were one of the strengths of IBM. In 1973, the big mainframe disk drive was model 3330-11: 400 MB for $111,600 or $279/MB. By 1980, you could get the 3380: 2.5GB for $87,500 or $35/MB. DRAM prices were dropping, too: In 1979 the price was cut from $75,000/MB to $50,000/MB.

:)

 

My first self-owned machine was a C64 with a very fragile MIDI interface plugged in a slot in the back and running Supertrack. From the mid 80s I had an Atari 520ST, running C-Lab Creator. I'm actually surprised the Atari hasn't been mentioned yet. It was a wicked machine. Good performer, very stable (and it had a sturdy MIDI interface built in :()

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I mostly remember my operating systems when I was little only because of the games I played on them.

Age 5: DOS- Sharkey's Pool

Age 6: Mac LC 580 - System 7, Jump Start First Grade and Math Ace Jr.

Age 7: Windows 95 - Commander Keen and Biomenace

 

and then 98, XP, and now OS X.

Basic on an Atari800 <--- Still have it

Then...

Atari 800XL <--- Still have it

128k Mac <--- Still have it

512k Mac <--- Still have it

Macintosh LC <--- OS 6 I think

PowerMacintosh 7100 <--- OS 8

Homebrew PC <---Win NT 3.51

Another Homebrew <--- NT4/98 Dualboot

then...

Redhat

Debian

W2k

XP

OSX

and finally....

OSX86

 

I've been around more times than Anna Nicole :-)

C64 Basic V2 was my first OS, followed closely (but rarley used) by GEOS (a windowed GUI OS for the C64). GEOS was interesting, but it was all about the command prompt back then (GEOS could {censored} out and was very limited). Loading software always come down to one variation of a command:

 

LOAD"*",8,1

<Searching for *>

<Program Loaded>

<Ready>

RUN

 

... and it even came with 256 bit colour graphics and SID synthesized sound. :D

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