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vishzilla
October 28th, 2007, 04:52 AM
I started off with WIn 95 right in '98, within 4 months switched to Win 98. Then in 2001 turned to XP and finally in 2006 my fav till date Ubuntu :)
-grubby
October 28th, 2007, 04:53 AM
I didn't have much choice in the matter since I wasn't old enough to even use the computer but...Windows 95,than Windows 98, Than Windows XP, and then in 2007, Ubuntu!
Nano Geek
October 28th, 2007, 04:54 AM
Windows 95 as far as I can remember.
true_friend
October 28th, 2007, 04:54 AM
98 >>ME>>2000 and now both XP and Kubuntu
RAV TUX
October 28th, 2007, 04:55 AM
I started off with WIn 95 right in '98, within 4 months switched to Win 98. Then in 2001 turned to XP and finally in 2006 my fav till date Ubuntu :)
Etch A Sketch circa 1972 (approximately)
-grubby
October 28th, 2007, 04:56 AM
Etch & Sketch circa 1972 (approximately)
does etch-a-sketch really count?
FuturePilot
October 28th, 2007, 04:57 AM
Let's see. Very first was Windows 95. Then Windows 98. We had that for a long time. Ended up skipping Windows ME (:twisted:) and Windows 2000. Went right to XP pretty much right when it was released. Last year I switched to Ubuntu.:guitar:
I do have a laptop with Vista, but I like never use Vista. Pure Ubuntu:guitar:
RAV TUX
October 28th, 2007, 04:57 AM
does etch-a-sketch really count?
It did for me, I enjoyed it immensely and I was never subjected to a Forced fsck.
FuturePilot
October 28th, 2007, 04:58 AM
It did for me, I enjoyed it immensely and I was never subjected to a Forced fsck.
:lolflag::lolflag:
skillllllz
October 28th, 2007, 04:58 AM
Commodore BASIC 2.0
RAV TUX
October 28th, 2007, 05:02 AM
Etch A Sketch circa 1972 (approximately)
Here's a new Web OS
It's called ELF (The virtual Etch A Sketch)
http://www.elfmovie.com/swf/etchasketch/
alwiap
October 28th, 2007, 05:04 AM
my dad had an amiga growing up that i used to play games on, but the first computer i had had a modified version of xp that i still use in my dual booting adventures with ubuntu. although i try to stay away from xp as much as possible :)
p_quarles
October 28th, 2007, 05:07 AM
Commodore BASIC 2.0
Same here.
I must have been 9 or 10, but I still remember feeling leet cause I'd coded some stupid program that asked you a few questions and then put them together in the output. Good times.
khughitt
October 28th, 2007, 05:09 AM
Windows 3.1 / Dos :X
jrharvey
October 28th, 2007, 05:09 AM
My first OS was some old apple, maybe OS 9 or OS 8 or something. Then windows 95, 2000, XP, OS X 10.3 and then thank god for UBUNTU. The best one yet. I still use OS X 10.5 but thats only because thats all my school has.
sd.chen
October 28th, 2007, 05:10 AM
MS DOS 5.0 with Doom 2 and Flight Simulator 3.0. Good times.
Edit: Oh yeah and somewhere I have Windows 95 on floppy disks. Those were the days...
vishzilla
October 28th, 2007, 05:14 AM
MS DOS 5.0 with Doom 2 and Flight Simulator 3.0. Good times.
Edit: Oh yeah and somewhere I have Windows 95 on floppy disks. Those were the days...
Oh ya, my cousin had DOS years back. Doom, Wolf3D and Prince of Persia were our favorite games
matchstich
October 28th, 2007, 05:16 AM
i had the commodores, texas instruments, and timex-singclair. in the 80's.
then nada till about 98 when i got a 95, but set it up at a friends house,
and they considered it theirs, as i was never home. being a otr driver.
then a few years ago i got a xp pro box from a
another friend,, and switched to unbuntu almost a year ago.
khughitt
October 28th, 2007, 05:19 AM
Doom (w/ necessary barney, etc patches), Blake stone, Wolfenstein 3d, Rise of traid, and quest for glory 3 :)
Incense
October 28th, 2007, 05:20 AM
Commodore 64 Basic
Cochise
October 28th, 2007, 05:25 AM
dos 3.1
skillllllz
October 28th, 2007, 05:28 AM
Same here.
I must have been 9 or 10, but I still remember feeling leet cause I'd coded some stupid program that asked you a few questions and then put them together in the output. Good times.
Heh yup, I recall that very same feeling. I was about 6 or 7 when my older siblings finally introduced me to our C64. Several years later I was given my very own IBM AT which ran PC-DOS 3.0
We had a plethora of machines and OS's in our house: Amiga 2000 & 3000, BeOS 5, various versions of DOS, every version of Windows except Vista, VIC-20... ah fun, fun times.
RudolfMDLT
October 28th, 2007, 05:31 AM
Ms-dos 5
Footissimo
October 28th, 2007, 05:31 AM
Sinclair BASIC on a ZX80 (http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/zx80/zx80.htm).
God, I'm old.
Cederien
October 28th, 2007, 05:44 AM
Even older them me Footissimo, but only just. My 1st was a Sinclair Basic too, but on a ZX Spectrum (in the luxus version with 48K RAM! Yey, not to mention the Interface 1 and Microdrive. I was next to God with that equipment). ;-)
Ptero-4
October 28th, 2007, 05:48 AM
Texas Instruments, Atari (what a times those), DOS, Mac 68k, Win 3.1, Win95, MacOS 8.6, MacOS 9, OSX, Ubuntu.
Depressed Man
October 28th, 2007, 05:51 AM
The first one that i can remember using is Windows 95. Well actually it has to be before that..cause I remember having to use the command line to start games up that were on floppies..but it was Windows.
undine
October 28th, 2007, 05:54 AM
First one I ever used? Amiga OS-something-or-rather. First one I ever owned? Windows 3.11 -- it was so horrible that I stuck to DOS.
aninaiian
October 28th, 2007, 06:08 AM
System 7 (7.5.3 revision 2.1)
samjh
October 28th, 2007, 06:31 AM
In chronological order:
MS-DOS 4.x, but I don't remember it clearly (back in the days when hard disks didn't really exist).
MS-DOS 6 and Macintosh System 7 are the ones I remember. :)
Frak
October 28th, 2007, 06:49 AM
System 6
Scruffynerf
October 28th, 2007, 06:55 AM
CP/M on the ancient Spectravideo. (Circa 1981-1982)
Then Microsoft Extended Basic.
MS Dos 5.0
Win311
Win95(b)
XP (Current) & Secondary)
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04 (Current & Main)
PmDematagoda
October 28th, 2007, 07:03 AM
Windows 3.1, went up the ladder, 95, 98, NT4.0, ME, 2000, XP, but stopped at XP. Now at 2007, Ubuntu 7.04, my first Linux OS:).
pelle.k
October 28th, 2007, 07:44 AM
AmigaOS 1.2 - It rocked!
killaray
October 28th, 2007, 08:00 AM
in school i used those old macs that use the big floppy disks.. played that ski game on it, lol
after that 95, ME (which i didnt find as terrible then everyone says), XP and now Ubuntu since 06 started wit Edgy
jrusso2
October 28th, 2007, 08:03 AM
Dos 3
hellmet
October 28th, 2007, 08:07 AM
Win 95 here too. Then Win98 for long, then XP, and Ubuntu. Pretty much the same path as everyone else
Shazaam
October 28th, 2007, 08:36 AM
Tandy CoCo Basic.
SunnyRabbiera
October 28th, 2007, 08:40 AM
Technically DOS, though my first home OS was win 95
DoktorSeven
October 28th, 2007, 08:42 AM
Commodore VIC-20 BASIC.
Fortunately, I quickly learned 65xx assembler to escape from the insanity known as BASIC. Still had to use it as an "OS", though.
cookieforyou
October 28th, 2007, 09:19 AM
Sinclair ZX81
Commodore 64
DOS 3.1....6.22
Win 3.1...3.22
WIN 95, 98, XP
MariusSilverwolf
October 28th, 2007, 09:37 AM
Used but not owned:
Commodore, 1984 - 1986
Mac System 4, 1988 - 1991
Owned:
Windows 3.0 w/ DOS 5: 1990 - 1996
Windows 95A w/ DOS 6.22: 1996 - 1997
Windows 95C w/ DOS 6.22: 1997 - 1999
Windows 98SE w/ DOS 6.22: 1999 - 2002
Windows 2000 (Dual Boot w/ Win98SE): 2000 - 2002
Windows XP: 2002 - 2007
Then I dumped XP for Ubuntu. Life is good.
*re-reads post* Holy crap, I was using as young as 3. No wonder I went into IT . . . . . . .
popch
October 28th, 2007, 09:41 AM
DOS/360; VM/370-CMS, AppleDOS on Apple ][, UCSD (Pascal environment), CP/M on Z80 card in Apple ][, IBM PC DOS
mysticmatrix
October 28th, 2007, 09:42 AM
DOS 6.0 --> Win 3.1 --> Win95 --> Win98SE --> WinXP/Ubuntu
NotTheMessiah
October 28th, 2007, 09:48 AM
Yep
Load Turbo
Adjust Tape(head)
<L
RUN
:lol:
Commodore64 rocked back in the days
Swarms
October 28th, 2007, 09:54 AM
Am I stupid if I remember playing Lemmings on Windows 3.1 on our family's first computer?
amadeus266
October 28th, 2007, 09:57 AM
Commodore BASIC 2.0
Glad I'm not alone. Also Commodore ML, and CPM
Rhapsody
October 28th, 2007, 09:57 AM
Full history of my PCs and operating systems:
First PC, Ichi (Retired)
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows 95
Second PC, Ni (Retired)
Windows 98
Third PC, San (Retired)
Windows 98/Windows XP Home dual-boot
Windows 98/Windows XP Home SP1 dual-boot
Windows 98/Windows XP Home SP2 dual-boot
Windows XP Home SP2
Windows XP Home SP2/Kubuntu 5.10 dual-boot
Kubuntu 6.06
Kubuntu 6.06.1
Kubuntu 6.10
Fourth PC, Chihiro (Current)
Kubuntu 6.10
Kubuntu 7.04
Fifth PC, Shizuku (Future)
???
Kubuntu 7.10 is my immediate future, Shizuku may see more extensive changes. The names are partly retroactive, San was only named near the end of her service, Ichi and Ni are fully retroactive terms. Chihiro and Shizuku mark my new system of naming my PCs after Studio Ghibli heroines.
blueturtl
October 28th, 2007, 10:53 AM
MS-DOS 5.0
Some argue that MS-DOS is little more than a bootloader and a few external utilities SO if that is the case, for the first several years I have been using a bootloader and later a bootloader with a graphical shell (Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98 ). In this scenario my first operating system would be Windows XP (skipped 2000).
yabbadabbadont
October 28th, 2007, 12:00 PM
When I was a kid, a system operator let me feed a program (on punched cards) into the card reader attached to an IBM 360. So, whatever those things used as an OS I guess. Otherwise, it would be the ROM BASIC in a Radio Shack TRS-80 CoCo 2.
Baby Boy
October 28th, 2007, 12:01 PM
Windows 3.11.
vishzilla
October 28th, 2007, 12:20 PM
Suprisingly not much people had Linux as their 1st OS
sp0onman
October 28th, 2007, 12:35 PM
mmm id say my first was windows 3.1 and dos. then it went windows 95,98,me,xp and now ubuntu.
i used vista today, i must say i didn't have a problem with it, other than taking a loooooong time to boot on a brand new centrino duo with 1 gb of ram. it just feels like a prettier version of xp.
Sisophon2001
October 28th, 2007, 12:41 PM
My first use of a computer was with a dumb terminal, and I have no idea what brains were behind it. My first desktop was an Apple Macintosh.
Garvan
Lster
October 28th, 2007, 12:50 PM
Windows 95...
hakimaki
October 28th, 2007, 12:57 PM
DOS 5.0 I believe, then one day my buddy came over with a dozen floppies or so and installed windows 3.1 on my 286. Sigh, the good old days...
MariusSilverwolf
October 28th, 2007, 01:01 PM
I remember for years we used to have to "park" the hard drive before we shut down the computer. Talk about long-abandoned practices of the good ol' days . . . .
iPower
October 28th, 2007, 01:09 PM
donīt know what os did A.T.A.R.I come with ?
aconley1
October 28th, 2007, 01:10 PM
I started off running DOS 4.0 from 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. My computer was a Tandy 8088 with no hard drive. So you'd boot with DOS, then take out that floppy and put in the one with the program you wanted to run and type some command at the A:\ prompt to run it. I thought windows 3.1 was awesome when it came out. I had to go buy a new system to run it....a 486 25MHz sytem with 2 GB HD. Wow what power. After that I built my own system with AMD K6 and installed Win 95. Now I have 4 computers in my house 3 running Ubuntu, 1 Vista (my wife's).
proalan
October 28th, 2007, 01:10 PM
My first OS was win95, it was the great operating system for its time despite taking 2 hours to install. Most anoying was early versions of directX messed up system drivers.
might be worth starting a poll.
I'm curious to know how many people had a linux distro as their first OS.
stimpack
October 28th, 2007, 01:28 PM
Sinclair BASIC, it was extremely naff!. But it was very learnable and led onto rom code hacking, I am glad I am old enough to start with this.
AmigaOS, quite a few years later, but worth a mention because it was so way ahead of it time. Very beautiful and elegant, much like the whole Amiga experience. In fact I think it was Amiga that tainted me against Windows, as for quite a long time Windows was a large step backwards.
Macintosh Sauce
October 28th, 2007, 01:53 PM
My first OS was AMIGA OS 1.3.
sayuki288
October 28th, 2007, 02:02 PM
started off with MS-DOS :lolflag:
escobar_
October 28th, 2007, 02:16 PM
Windows 3.0
:D
Mazza558
October 28th, 2007, 02:21 PM
Win 95 > 98 > XP > Vista + XP > Ubuntu + XP
mivo
October 28th, 2007, 02:26 PM
My first OS was CP/M on an Amstrad CPC 6128 in 1984 or 85.
CP/M was followed by Atari TOS/GEM, Windows 3.0 through XP (a bit of OS/2 mixed in the 90s), a little FreeBSD a few years back, and Linux now.
icechen1
October 28th, 2007, 02:43 PM
******* me -> 2000 -> xp then ubuntu
kelean
October 28th, 2007, 02:57 PM
It was dos 3 I belive on a 8088 pc with a 20 meg hard drive. then worked my way up the versions to xp. I have used linux for about 7 years. Redhat 5 and slackware 3.5 were the first distros that I was successful to run.
speedwell68
October 28th, 2007, 03:01 PM
MS-DOS 3.1 with Windows 1.01.
argie
October 28th, 2007, 03:23 PM
DOS, I think. I'm not sure. It was an old IBM PC back in 1997 (our school was way behind, someone on these boards actually helped me identify the computer :) ) and we used to be able to do DOS and LOGO and Pac-man. And this black-and-white version of what looked like Golden Axe. It was a long time ago.
carson.matthew
October 28th, 2007, 03:37 PM
First OS was MS-DOS. Dad had a Tandy, and thats where I learned the basis of my computer knowledge. There was a program that was a video of how computers work and stuff. It was amazing. I was only 5-7 years old at the time.
Parents eventually upgraded to a Compaq that had Windows 98. Seems how I was the computer geek of the family, I was pretty much the only one who used it.
My first pc that was officially mine was a Windows 95 machine. It was an IBM with a 75Mhz processor, 16MB of ram, and a 1gig hard drive.
Later down the road, Parents upgraded to an HP Pavilion with Windows ME. Going from Windows 98 to Windows ME for the parents was good. ME was a great OS for the home user who didnt have an internet connection. All the security holes didn't exist without the internet. However, all it was was a facelift for 98.
Started using XP when I was a junior in high school. I remember fearing it so much with it's "gay color scheme" and incompatibility. I set up a dual boot with Windows 98 as my primary. I slowly but surely learned XP.
Once in college, I was exposed to more ideas and faster internet! A friend of mine was an avid linux user. He got me setup on Gentoo, but I was never able to get that running (this was about 4 years ago when you had the option of compiling everything, with no GUI installer. Took me a full weekend just to fail).
Once I got into the Computer Science program, we were learning Linux and I really took a joy to it. There was so much more you could do with it compared to Windows. I couldn't game with my friends, but there was enough exploration that kept me content. Then I went back to Windows to game.
Since then, I have been in a cycle: run windows for a few months, run linux for a few months. I am waiting for the day Game Developers notice the potential for creating Linux clients. It will be a grand day indeed.
BTW, used Vista with a AMD X2 4200, 3GB of RAM, ATI X1800XT. Runs good just like XP when freshly installed. After a few months, it's bloat catches up to it and slows down terribly. I am much more satisfied in Linux all the way around besides the gaming aspect. :)
[EDIT:] Wow...after reading this, I feel OLD! Back when computers were 75Mhz, had a 1 gig hard drive.....wow...
songshu
October 28th, 2007, 03:56 PM
BASIC (commodore 64)
AS/400 (don't remember wich OS)
win98
XP
Slackware
FreeBSD
Debian
Ubuntu
Darkhack
October 28th, 2007, 05:25 PM
Windows 3.1 --> Widnows 98 --> Experimented with Knoppix LiveCD --> Windows XP --> Experimented with several distributions like Mepis and Suse, but settled on Ubuntu.
SunnyRabbiera
October 28th, 2007, 05:30 PM
Full history of my PCs and operating systems:
First PC, Ichi (Retired)
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows 95
Second PC, Ni (Retired)
Windows 98
Third PC, San (Retired)
Windows 98/Windows XP Home dual-boot
Windows 98/Windows XP Home SP1 dual-boot
Windows 98/Windows XP Home SP2 dual-boot
Windows XP Home SP2
Windows XP Home SP2/Kubuntu 5.10 dual-boot
Kubuntu 6.06
Kubuntu 6.06.1
Kubuntu 6.10
Fourth PC, Chihiro (Current)
Kubuntu 6.10
Kubuntu 7.04
Fifth PC, Shizuku (Future)
???
Kubuntu 7.10 is my immediate future, Shizuku may see more extensive changes. The names are partly retroactive, San was only named near the end of her service, Ichi and Ni are fully retroactive terms. Chihiro and Shizuku mark my new system of naming my PCs after Studio Ghibli heroines.
Ghibli rules man!
by the way, am I the only one who misses MSDOS?
I remember it being a very good OS for a microsoft product but they were a lot better back in the day.
bonzodog
October 28th, 2007, 05:40 PM
My first home computer would have been a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, on which I wrote text adventure games.
My first PC OS that I discovered was HP/UX and DOS 5.0.
My first home PC ran win98se for a while, which I GPF'd with Litestep, so I switched it to Caldera Linux. Since then, I have always had linux as the sole home OS, using mostly Slackware.
TKR101010
October 28th, 2007, 05:44 PM
Commodore BASIC 2.0
I don't know what version the basic was, but my first computer was a Commodore VIC-20, then a Commodore 128. Then several years later after moving out of my mom and dad's I got a computer that only has DOS on it. Then came my first 'real' computer that ran Win98. The computer after that had XP, which I used until recently getting my Gateway laptop that came with Vista. Vista pushed me over the edge 'cause some of my art programs had a lot of difficulty working with Vista, so I switched to Ubuntu. I had tried to switch to linux a couple times before on my first XP computer, but wasn't able to get everything working right and gave up each time (damn WINmodems). Those previous attempts were with RedHat, and Mandrake.
Ubuntu has vastly improved my computing life, and was much easier to get into than the other distros I tried. And my art programs, all of which were open source, and many ported from Linux to Windows to begin with, work wonderfully again now that I was in their native OS :)
jgrabham
October 28th, 2007, 06:02 PM
DOS 6.22 with Win 3.11 for workgroups!! (still got the floppys lying around lol)
And I must have been about 2 lol (born in 1992 lol)
RebounD11
October 28th, 2007, 06:06 PM
whatever was on the Sinclair ZX80 computer... I was really young :D and I liked drawing houses and printing the multiplication table... and of course play games from audio cassettes :)
WanderingKnight
October 28th, 2007, 06:08 PM
MS DOS 5 with Windows 3.11, though I rarely used the latter (I preferred to start my applications from the command prompt unless I had to use a word processor). Then I inherited my dad's old PowerPC Macs, System 6, 7 and eventually 9. Then I transitioned through XP for a couple of years till I ended up on Ubuntu this past April.
Little_Tiger
October 28th, 2007, 06:11 PM
Started with Win 3.11 then all windows releases
Meaning
Win3.11
Win98
Win 98SE
Win ME
Win 2000 parallel with Mac OS X Jaguar
Win Xp and Xp SP2 parallel with Mac OS X Panther
stopped here with window now Mac OS X Tiger
Now ubuntu 6.04 and ubuntu 7.10 also with Mac OS X Leopard
Wiebelhaus
October 28th, 2007, 06:13 PM
DCS2000 , the catalyst to my tech support job for the last....6ish years.
Flyingjester
October 28th, 2007, 06:14 PM
win 3.1 for workgroups, then 95, 98, win 2000, xp, and then fedora, debian, and now ubuntu
happysmileman
October 28th, 2007, 06:16 PM
First I remember was Win98, my mam said we had a Win95 PC but I probably wasn't old enough to use it.
Arwen
October 28th, 2007, 06:21 PM
Windows 95,I used it first time at school for some exersises for kids and I hated them.6 years ago I bought my own PC with Windows XP so I could say that's the first OS I seriously used.
Phil Airtime
October 28th, 2007, 06:21 PM
A ZX Spectrum (when I was two!) followed by MS-DOS 3.3. First GUI was Windows 3.1 on a 386.
Ned490
October 28th, 2007, 06:22 PM
Xerox CP-V.
First home machine was a DEC LSI-11. OS? Just enter it through the front panel switches!
Then I got FORTH and life was really good...
Ned
moeFinley
October 28th, 2007, 06:28 PM
DOS booted from floppies on the family Schneider
http://www.case.hu-berlin.de/cm/cmKat/Schneider.JPG
Dark_X
October 28th, 2007, 06:52 PM
My first was windows 98.:lolflag:
markp1989
October 28th, 2007, 06:53 PM
my first was win 95, then i changed to 98 in about 6 months
ahaslam
October 28th, 2007, 08:39 PM
AmigaOS 2.0
phrostbyte
October 28th, 2007, 09:25 PM
Commodore Basic, then System 7, then Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME (don't ask), XP and of course Ubuntu.
Ehtetur
October 28th, 2007, 10:15 PM
OS/2 Warp 4 --> winNT4 --> Redhat 5.2 - 9.0 --> SuSE 8.0 - 10.0 --> Ubuntu Dapper 6.10 - Gutsy 7.10
Oh bother... I know I'm not the only one here that used OS/2.. I remember hearing about 3 other users.
Frak
October 28th, 2007, 10:23 PM
OS/2 Warp 4 --> winNT4 --> Redhat 5.2 - 9.0 --> SuSE 8.0 - 10.0 --> Ubuntu Dapper 6.10 - Gutsy 7.10
Oh bother... I know I'm not the only one here that used OS/2.. I remember hearing about 3 other users.
OS/2 Warp FTW
w00t
Anessen
October 28th, 2007, 10:32 PM
2000: Windows 95, Windows 98
2001: Windows ME (Yes. I was traumatised after using this.)
2002: Windows XP
2005: Ubuntu/Windows XP (Discovered Ubuntu, had already tried OpenSUSE and Mandrake/Mandriva)
2007: Ubuntu/Debian/Windows XP/Windows Vista Basic (Laptop came with Vista basic, which was on the hard disk for one boot so I could work out what hardware it had. Now runs Debian Etch)
D-EJ915
October 28th, 2007, 10:58 PM
Whatever Commodore used, then DOS.
peterbrewer
October 28th, 2007, 11:01 PM
MS DOS - shudders
Unicycle
October 28th, 2007, 11:02 PM
95 -> 98 -> XP -> Ubuntu
I keep XP around on 250gb partition of my 500gb drive, just because my older BIOS won't recognize the whole drive as a single partition, and I might want to use Windows for games or video editing or something else. It's better than 250 gigs of unformatted space, I guess.
Bruce M.
October 28th, 2007, 11:37 PM
C-64 - what ever that was
C-128 and IBM PC-DOS 1.1 at the same time.
Commodore lost out
MS-DOS 1.2 up to 6.6 (Win95 was already out)
Finally, DOS lost support, so I begrudgingly put in Win 3.11 for Workgroups,
bypassed W95 totally and finally went to Win 98.
Then came Win NT for a short time before Win 2K.
Now ... well, I'm here right!!! Ubuntu
6.04 (4 days) - 6.10 (overnight) - 7.04
Figure I'll move to Gutsy in Jan when the dust settles.
Retrograde77
October 28th, 2007, 11:52 PM
Vic 20, then Commodore 64. First PC OS was dos 5 if I remember :)
dynamicv
October 29th, 2007, 12:01 AM
CP/M was the first at home, AmigaOS2.0 was the first I owned, HP-UX was the first at Uni, and OS/2 2.1 was the first for work.
jpittack
October 29th, 2007, 12:04 AM
98se>xp>vista premium>Ubuntu>?
Will try other distros as hard drive space or working older computers allow.
pluviosity
October 29th, 2007, 12:16 AM
Windows 3.1 --> Windows 98 --> Windows XP --> Ubuntu Feisty --> Ubuntu Gutsy
Kymus
October 29th, 2007, 12:16 AM
DOS
Used that for a while, then eventually got ******* 3.1
Bruce M.
October 29th, 2007, 12:20 AM
Oh ya, my cousin had DOS years back. Doom, Wolf3D and Prince of Persia were our favorite games
HEY!! I still have a CD with: Death (?), Doom2, Doom SE, Duke3D, Heretc13, Quake and Wolf3D.
Talk about nostalgia!!
Can I play DOS games with Ubuntu?
Frak
October 29th, 2007, 12:21 AM
HEY!! I still have a CD with: Death (?), Doom2, Doom SE, Duke3D, Heretc13, Quake and Wolf3D.
Talk about nostalgia!!
Can I play DOS games with Ubuntu?
sudo aptitude install dosbox
Bruce M.
October 29th, 2007, 12:44 AM
sudo aptitude install dosbox
Oh oh, my wife is going to kill me.
but ... wow, thanks.
Now to read about dosbox some first.
Footissimo
October 29th, 2007, 12:48 AM
Even older them me Footissimo, but only just. My 1st was a Sinclair Basic too, but on a ZX Spectrum (in the luxus version with 48K RAM! Yey, not to mention the Interface 1 and Microdrive. I was next to God with that equipment). ;-)
I had a 16k Spectrum at one point, though quickly migrated to Atari 800/800XL (rare in the UK, but miles better than the Speccy and C64). In my own defence, I was using a ZX80 at age 8-9 =)
bobbybobington
October 29th, 2007, 12:55 AM
windows 3.1 ->windows 98 ->windows xp -> suse 10.0 (it was short but sweet)-> Feisty -> Gutsy
bashveank
October 29th, 2007, 01:04 AM
Windows 3.1 > Windows 95 > Windows 98 > Windows NT, didn't like, none of my stuff worked properly so moved back to 98 > Windows 2000 > Windows XP > Feisty > Gutsy.
Doggles
October 29th, 2007, 10:33 AM
The good old Vic 20 - wow I feel so old...
I remember writing a kind of database / addressbook app in Basic on the Vic, and later on the C64, but it got so huge that it filled up the computer's gigantic 4.5kB of memory - I had to buy a huge brick of a cartridge to plug into the back to up the memory to a staggering 32kB.
10 years old a writing bloatware already...
anyway, nowadays Gutsy Ubu Studio for the tunes, SimplyMepis - nice KDE based distro, really like it when not using Ubuntu, and a couple of Macs to make sure that I have no money left.
anybody remember the old BBC micros? - we used to have them at school...
shijirou
October 29th, 2007, 11:10 AM
PC DOS 3.xx > MS-DOS 5.xxx > Windows 95 > Windows 98 > Mandrake > Windows 2000 > Windows XP > Windows Vista and Ubuntu
mindtrick
October 29th, 2007, 11:13 AM
Windows 98 SE
happy-and-lost
October 29th, 2007, 11:15 AM
RiscOS > Windows 3.11 > Windows ME > Debian 2.2 > Windows XP > Lycoris Desktop/LX > Mandrake 8.2 > Fedora Core 3 > Debian 3.0 > Ubuntu 6.06 > Ubuntu 6.10 > Debian 3.1 > Ubuntu 7.04 > Debian Sid > Ubuntu 7.10 > Ubuntu 8.04 > Arch > ?
Hallvor
October 29th, 2007, 11:26 AM
Dos.
Zackariah
October 29th, 2007, 11:53 AM
My first OS was MS-DOS back when I was only about 6 or 7, I remember watching my mum playing the original Monkey Island game :p
Very young and didn't know a thing about computer, I just used to enjoy fiddling with settings and then watching people go mad at me for screwing up the PC! :)
Next was Windows 98SE when I was about 10, and from there on my geekness grew!
Went to XP Pro about a year after it was out, then switched to Ubuntu 6.10.
Now on Ubuntu 7.10 and loving every second of it!
stinger30au
October 29th, 2007, 11:59 AM
Extended Colour Basic 1.0 (Tandy Coco 1)
Microware OS9 Level 1 (like UNIX Tandy Coco 1,2,3)
Dos 3,4,5,6 PC
Win 3.11 for playgroups ->Vista
Amiga Work Bench
anaconda
October 29th, 2007, 12:00 PM
Commodore64
then DOS etc..
But as late as 1999 I had to learn to use VAX at work! Seriously..
jayaramk
October 29th, 2007, 12:52 PM
win 98 SE
svtfmook
October 29th, 2007, 01:12 PM
commodore
tandy
dos
windows 3.1
cyclefiend2000
October 29th, 2007, 01:16 PM
Commodore 64 Basic
ditto.
Salpiche
October 29th, 2007, 01:19 PM
Commodore > win 3.1 > win 95 > win98/ Mac OS 9 (one laptop and an iMac)> win ME> Mandrake 1.something> winXP/ red hat> now win xp, Mac OS X and Ubuntu (Ubuntu being my main system followed by Max OS X)
reza81
October 29th, 2007, 01:35 PM
MS windows 3
runningwithscissors
October 29th, 2007, 01:54 PM
MS-DOS 6.22 > Windows 95 > Windows 98 > Redhat 6.0 > Windows 98 > Windows XP > Gentoo Linux
kaptengu
October 29th, 2007, 02:47 PM
Ms-dos 5.0
leader303
October 29th, 2007, 02:58 PM
win95, win98, win me (for gamepad support, thps2!!), win 2000, win xp. and the 'what the hell is my computer doing without even asking me?'- experience with every switch. now ubuntu studio.
Antman
October 29th, 2007, 03:15 PM
Floating BASIC > Commodore > MSDOS > Win3.1 >
OS/2 War p >Win95 > Win2000 > WinXP/MacOSX/Linux
My first computer was a RadioShack TRS-80. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Trs80_2.jpg
BDNiner
October 29th, 2007, 03:18 PM
I started with DOS 6.0 then windows 3.0 and windows 3.11
gatewayasteroid
October 29th, 2007, 04:24 PM
I started off with WIn 95 right in '98, within 4 months switched to Win 98. Then in 2001 turned to XP and finally in 2006 my fav till date Ubuntu :)
I started with [this] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20).
Gee, I feel oooooooooold!
:guitar:
rolnics
October 29th, 2007, 04:29 PM
The good old Commodore 64 . . . wow how long did those tapes take to load!!!!
Then Windows 3.1 -> 98 -> the biggest joke ME -> Win98 -> XP Pro and of Ubuntu from 6.10(just)
starfry
October 29th, 2007, 04:50 PM
Well the first real OS I used was CP/M on a RML380Z way back in 1984.
master_kernel
October 29th, 2007, 04:53 PM
Windows 95 - Windows 98 - Dual boot Debian - Out with Debian in with Mandrake - Out with Mandrake in with Fedora - Out with Fedora in with Ubuntu - Windows 2000 replaces Windows 98 - This year, Windows XP replaces Windows 2000
It's been a long ride.
snickers295
October 29th, 2007, 04:54 PM
my first os was windows 95.
second was 98, then ME then XP Then back to 98 then to ME again then Suse 7.10 then xandros 4.0 then ubuntu 7.4
LowSky
October 29th, 2007, 05:13 PM
dos 6.0, windows 3.1, win95, win98, winXP, Win Vista RC, Ubuntu 5.10, Ubuntu 6.06, Ubuntu, 6.10, Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10
I really need to slow down on the releases of ubuntu
mostwanted
October 29th, 2007, 05:45 PM
DOS (can't remember which version) and a bit later on Windows 3.1.
BDNiner
October 29th, 2007, 05:51 PM
The good old Commodore 64 . . . wow how long did those tapes take to load!!!!
Then Windows 3.1 -> 98 -> the biggest joke ME -> Win98 -> XP Pro and of Ubuntu from 6.10(just)
I remember those. We had a computer class in like 3rd grade and we would spend the first 15 minutes of the class loading the game we wanted to play. The skiing game, the rocket ship game, snake. wow the memories. Oh and don't let it crash while you were playing. that would ruin the whole class for you because it would take too long to load it up again. And the rubber keyboards. if someone would make one of those that works with current comptuers.
Calash
October 29th, 2007, 06:08 PM
Tandy Basic/ Dos 2.0 on a Tandy 1000HX. Sweet sweet system/
NJC
October 29th, 2007, 06:18 PM
Jan 1991 was first PC. I think it was DOS 3?
The progression:
DOS -> DOS upgrades -> Win3.0 -> Win3.1 -> Win95 -> Win98 -> Ubuntu 6.06
goumples
October 29th, 2007, 06:20 PM
Win95. To the day it's still better than Vista.
MemoryDump
October 29th, 2007, 06:33 PM
Windows 3.0 in High School !!! OMG that was hell on earth! Multi-tasking didn't even exsist :(
I still remember the day I heard sound for the first time on a Windows 3.1 station using a PC Speaker driver! I was blown away!!!
mcurtiss1970
October 29th, 2007, 07:12 PM
Applesoft Basic on a Franklin Computer/Apple II clone
The Jinx
October 29th, 2007, 07:15 PM
Win95, Win98, Win98SE, Win2k, WinXP, Knoppix, Suse, Ubuntu, Vista (only to hate it and replace it with Ubuntu)
screaminj3sus
October 29th, 2007, 07:57 PM
A REALLY crappy wal-mart packardbell with win 95 was my first PC, it didn't even have internet (The Dial up modem was broken or something and my parents never fixed it) Then win 98 on a 400Mhz amd with 128 mb ram (My parents computer until 2 years ago! thing was so slow) and my current PC (Dell) with windows XP in 2002, 2.66 Ghz p4, 80 GB HDD, FX5200 512 MB RAM, now 3.0 Ghz p4, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, 7600GS. I Have tried ubuntu and many other distros on and off in the last 2 years. I also have Windows Vista on this computer as of recently.
MethodOne
October 29th, 2007, 08:04 PM
Ones I used at school:
Apple ][ Plus, Apple //e
Macintosh System 7-Mac OS 9.6
Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP
Fedora Core 3
Debian Etch
Ones I used at home:
Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista
Ubuntu, Mandriva, Puppy, various live distros.
Mac OS X Tiger (will install Leopard later)
Erdaron
October 29th, 2007, 08:35 PM
The very first home computer ran on DOS 3.something with Norton Commander. Oh that was so ever sweet. My computer had a math co-processor, which was so totally 1337 at the time.
I remember seeing Windows 3.11 on a friend's computer for the first time. We all thought it was silly. NC seemed far superior to this thing.
After that a pretty normal Windows progression, 3.11 > 95 > 98SE > XP > Ubuntu.
John.Michael.Kane
October 29th, 2007, 08:51 PM
Heres what I have used.
CP/M
Commodore BASIC
Dos
OS/2
Win3.1
Win for workgroups
Win nt 4.0
Win 2000
Win xp
Novell NetWare
Redhat 5 and 8
Suse9
Ubuntu 5.04-7.10
matthew
October 29th, 2007, 09:12 PM
Color BASIC from Tandy on a TRS-80 Color Computer. I had an earlier version than this, because I bought it in 1981...but I don't have a screenshot. :)
fualad
October 29th, 2007, 09:17 PM
PC-DOS was my first os followed by MS-DOS then windows/linux flip flopping back and forth. Never have found happiness!
winston84
October 30th, 2007, 12:12 AM
MS basic, Dos 3.2/6.22 ,Win 3.1,95,winNT3.5,98se and WinXP Linux
Its been a long trip from a 4mhz tandy to a 3.2ghz P4 but fun
jbaerbock
October 30th, 2007, 12:30 AM
Well I used the first few versions of DOS, then used a slightly graphical version of DOS my brother had. Then we went to windows for workgroups (3.1 basicaly) then 95, RedHat 4.0, 98, ME, Mandrake (dabled in it but it sucked), XP, Kubuntu, Sabayon, Mint and now I use Ubuntu 7.10.
dogson
October 30th, 2007, 07:42 PM
C64, Basic V2. later when i got a PC MS DOS 5> MS DOS 6.22>Win3.11>IBM OS/2 Warp 3>OS/2 Warp 4>Win98>Linux
hkgonra
October 30th, 2007, 08:17 PM
I had a tandy that used the TV for a monitor. It was computer contained inside the keyboard.
No idea what OS it used.
altu
October 30th, 2007, 08:52 PM
Commodore 64
HC 85 ( a Sinclair Spectrum clone)
but I only used these for games
My first real OS was MS-DOS 6.22. I don't think Windows 3.11 qualifies as an OS. At the time I thought of it as just another program that you started from the command line.
Then,
Win 95
Win 98
Win 2000
Win XP (which I still use on my gaming computer)
Now for Linux:
My first linux was Corel Linux, anyone remember this?
Redhat
Suse
Mandrake
Caldera Linux (back when they weren't public enema no.1)
These were just attempts I didn't really used them. I just installed them kept them for a few days and then went back to windows. Well, I had to play Quake, Diablo and Warcraft didn't I?
First Linux that was there to stay was Vector Linux. Fast, easy to install, plenty of apps, ran on a pittance of a computer.
Then I discovered Ubuntu. Well, first Xubuntu, then Kubuntu, because I had only used Kde, IceWm and Xfce before and Gnome was quite unknown to me.
I have now been using Ubuntu since 6.06 and i can tell you It got better with every release. There are still a few things that dont work the way I would like but I hope that with its growing community Ubuntu will overcome them
Bungo Pony
October 30th, 2007, 08:52 PM
TRS-80 Level II BASIC.
http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/mclays/level2.html
Level-II BASIC was an extension to the TRS-80 Level-I BASIC. It was ROM based, and the Model I would boot directly to a BASIC Ready prompt if there was no disk system attached. It added many commands to the Level-I command set as well as increasing numeric accuracy to 16 significant digits and doubling the speed of cassette based I/O. It added such features as formatted printing, error trapping, multi-dimensioned arrays, better string handling and automatic line numbering. The range of allowed variable names was increased significantly.
My first PC OS was MS-DOS 3.x (can't remember exactly). Then I had Windows 3.1 for a short time before I moved up to Win95.
omns
October 30th, 2007, 09:38 PM
Mac OS 7.1
TheAL76
October 30th, 2007, 10:16 PM
1. Commodore 64's version of DOS
2. Whatever version of the Mac OS was on Mac LC (7 maybe?)
3. Windows 3.1
4. Windows 95
5. Windows 98
6. Windows ME
7. Windows XP
8. Ubuntu (thank God)
PrimoTurbo
October 30th, 2007, 10:50 PM
First time I used a computer I think it was Windows 3.X, then in school it was always Macs until they got a bunch of Windows NT workstations.
I got my first computer in 1998 and it had Windows 98. I remember how disappointed I was with Word compared to ClarisWorks, Word at first made no sense and was far more complicated.
Ioky
October 30th, 2007, 11:34 PM
Haha that is funny, my life is kind of weird in term of computers. My first OS, is something green text on black screen, I have really no idea what is it, my dad give it for me when I was like about 8 when a company updating their computer. I remember that you need a KEY to turn on the computer. like a physical key. haha, then I finally get a up to date computer windows 98. I use it for like years and a half, I update to me, which i know it suck!, haha as I say it suck so it stop run right for a while, at that time, I get a 60$ windows 95 IBM computer, it still run nicely today, though a bit slow, but what I can, it is very old. go IBM, then I get a window XP computer. Run it for years without any good. reinstall like millions times. Then I finally give up on it. I switch to Linux, the first Linux I try to install mandriva on my xp computer, doesn't work right because the hardware. I use is OpenSuse after I get my Linux Box(BiTuX), but as a beginner, it have like no support. So when Ubuntu 7.04 comes out I switch to Ubuntu. I love Ubuntu 7.04. I also own a Mac at the time. However when 7.10 come out, I am dispointed. Takes forever to get things works.
so yeah here it is for short
OS green text with black screen, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95, Windows Xp, Mandriva linux, OpenSuse linux, Ubuntu Linux - Mac.
skwishybug
October 31st, 2007, 01:08 AM
First OS: TI Basic
Progression:
TI Basic
DOS 4.0
DOS 5.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 98
Windows XP
Ubuntu
Windows Vista (at work only)
Six_Digits
October 31st, 2007, 01:37 AM
Win 3.1, and DOS, then 95, 98, 2000 professional, then xp, and finally a Vista/Ubuntu dual-boot.
inversekinetix
October 31st, 2007, 01:37 AM
sinclair basic
tm0054
October 31st, 2007, 03:19 AM
Here is a rundown of all the Systems/OSes I've used:
Atari 800- Atari DOS 2.0 when I finally got a disk drive! I still have all of my disks containing my basic programs I wrote when I was like 10. I need to figure out how to get them in my PC so I can run them on an Atari 8 bit emulator!
Atari ST - TOS/GEM - ran circles around MAC and PC at the time
Amiga - AmigaOS 1.2 I think... First computer I had with stereo sound (the Amiga's sound chip was INCREDIBLE for its time). I think it was the first truly multitasking OS - I could be wrong.
386 PC with MSDOS 5.0 I think... Great time for games... Prince of Persia, Monkey Island, Space Quest 4, Kings Quest 5, Test Drive 3 etc all rocking through the very first soundblaster! After a brief stint with Windows 3.0 (which ran like crap - 2mb was not enough memory) I quickly went back to MSDOS
Then the normal Windows progression - Win95, Win98, Win98SE, Windows XP, Windows Vista then... Ubuntu 6.06 - I haven't looked back. I'm now using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon and it is by far the best OS I've used so far.
rolheika
October 31st, 2007, 03:22 AM
MS-DOS, I think. I remember when programs like Multimate and Symphony were the standard, for document and spreadsheet-making, respectively. After that came WIndows 3.1, and I pretty much continued with Windows until I (very recently) discovered Ubuntu. Though I still use Vista right now, it's a dual boot.
IYY
October 31st, 2007, 03:44 AM
DOS, then 95, 98, XP, FreeBSD and Ubuntu.
adamorjames
October 31st, 2007, 03:55 AM
Some kind of old Macintosh...
Fidgel
October 31st, 2007, 04:26 AM
This'll show my age
High School Computer Class - Don't know the OS but Hole Punch Cards
Tandy Color Computer
Vic 20
DOS 1? came on a cassette tape
DOS 3, 4, 5, 6
PC DOS ?
IBM DOS ?
Apple DOS
Win 286 (not actually an OS)
Win 386 (not actually an OS)
Mac II
OS/2 v2, v3
Win 3, 3.1, 3.11 Workgroups (not actually an OS)
SCO Xenix ?
SCO Unix ?
Novell ELS1 ELS2, 2, 3, 4
Win 95
Red Hat circa 1998, 9
Win 98 (no ME)
Various Mac OS's
NT 3, 4
Win 2K
Win XP
Vista
Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10
Somewhere in the 80's and early 90's there were a few various mainframe systems, Burroughs, IBM, ???
Enough?
Fidgel ><>
BlueSkyNIS
October 31st, 2007, 06:18 AM
In this order I have trying different OS's.
My first comp was shipped with win98, then I installed: dos 6.22, win 3.11, win 95, again dos 6.22, win 98 (dos 7.10).
Windows Me appeared...switch back to win 98 se, then again to win Me.
Found OS/2 but it didn't worked for me. After that, first linux (don't know what distro, but I do remember it came on 3-5 cd's) which worked awful. :(
Windows 2000, a linux distro, again win 98 se, a linux distro, win Me, Win XP, And than again Win Me. I have finaly switched to XP in 2H 2004.
2006 Win XP and PCLinuxOS
2007 Win XP and various linux distros (PCLinuxOS 2007, Mandriva, Gentoo) and stick to the Ubuntu :)
rok3
October 31st, 2007, 06:28 AM
Color Basic 1.0 on my Tandy TRS(Trash)-80. I hesitate to call it an operating system but it was responsible for memory management and such so what the heck. I had so much fun typing basic "code" for hours on end.
This'll show my age
High School Computer Class - Don't know the OS but Hole Punch Cards
Tandy Color Computer
Vic 20
DOS 1? came on a cassette tape
DOS 3, 4, 5, 6
PC DOS ?
IBM DOS ?
Apple DOS
Win 286 (not actually an OS)
Win 386 (not actually an OS)
Mac II
OS/2 v2, v3
Win 3, 3.1, 3.11 Workgroups (not actually an OS)
SCO Xenix ?
SCO Unix ?
Novell ELS1 ELS2, 2, 3, 4
Win 95
Red Hat circa 1998, 9
Win 98 (no ME)
Various Mac OS's
NT 3, 4
Win 2K
Win XP
Vista
Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10
Somewhere in the 80's and early 90's there were a few various mainframe systems, Burroughs, IBM, ???
Enough?
Fidgel ><>
Doesn't show too much actually. I've used most of the OSes listed as I went from one second-hand system to another and I'm only 25. Luckily I was never forced to use punch cards in high school though. :)
corbbz
October 31st, 2007, 07:28 AM
First two:
MSX Basic
Dos 4
Hortinstein
October 31st, 2007, 08:19 AM
that stupid Macintosh At-Ease thing that made it impossible for me to do anything in elementary school but play Myst, and other educational games.
Than prolly dos on a 386, mac (ancient version), xp, Red Hat in Lab, vista (1 day), unbuntu on laptop, centOS in lab
Enigmus
October 31st, 2007, 08:25 AM
The very first OS I used was Windows 3.1 when I was just starting Primary school. We'd have to load the games off those ancient floppy disk, and such things. A while later they upgraded to Windows 95, and then 98.
First OS I used with my own PC was Win98. It lasted us a good while. We then jumped up to ME, which is like 98 in a new package compared to 2000, IMO. Then we went to XP, and that's the dominant OS I use now. I also use various Linux distros, including Ubuntu.
flarkit
October 31st, 2007, 11:07 AM
'92 - '94: Dos 5.0, then 6.something, WFW 3.11 briefly (yuck), Unix at university
'94 - '96: no PC
'97 - 2000: Win95
2000 - 2003: Win98SE
2003 - present: dual-booting WinXP + Various Linux distros (loving Feisty)
Kosimo
October 31st, 2007, 11:47 AM
The very first Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98 Se
Windows Me (Yes, I did it...)
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows XP SP1
Some try to Linux (Mandrake, Suse...) But nothing serious
Windows XP SP2
Some try again to Ubuntu 6.04 And nothing serious again...
Windows XP2 (Again)
Then, finally Ubuntu Feisty 7.04
And now Gutsy 7.10
That's how I get divorced of Windows and fall in love with Linux.
Bungo Pony
October 31st, 2007, 02:03 PM
Commodore 64's version of DOS
Commodore's DOS was actually built into their floppy drives. Kinda weird if you think about that now, since they ended up putting the DOS onto floppies and CDs, and now computers are selling with the DOS pre-installed.
JAPrufrock
October 31st, 2007, 02:09 PM
CP/M (Kaypro)
hangar_18
October 31st, 2007, 02:15 PM
it was this black gama **** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didaktik >
DOS > Win 3.1 > 95 > NT > 98 > XP > Slax > Ubuntu > Kubuntu
jespdj
October 31st, 2007, 02:46 PM
My first OS was Commodore BASIC 2.0 on the Commodore 64. After that:
- AmigaOS v1.2 on the Amiga 2000
- MS-DOS 5.0 - 6.0 and Windows 3.1 on a 386SX, 20 MHz PC (with 1 MB RAM)
- Windows 95 on a 486DX2, 66 MHz, 8 MB RAM; I tried running OS/2 Warp on it once but it was very slow (you really needed 16 MB to run that smoothly)
- Windows 98 on a Pentium, 133 MHz, 64 MB RAM
- Windows XP on an AMD Athlon 1800+, 1533 MHz, 1 GB RAM
- Windows Vista on an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2400 MHz, 2 GB RAM
The first time I used Linux was on the 486. I was using Slackware Linux at that time, without a GUI - just the command line. That was in 1994.
After that I didn't look at Linux for a long time, but now I've been using Ubuntu for about a year on my Core 2 Duo and also on my laptop (Dell XPS M1330).
equal
October 31st, 2007, 03:10 PM
Dos 5.0. I loved that computer. I fought really hard against the GUI for a long time haha.
jml
October 31st, 2007, 03:14 PM
Computer: Apple IIc
OS: Apple ProDOS, and Apple DOS 3.3
matthew
October 31st, 2007, 05:16 PM
I fought really hard against the GUI for a long time haha.I did too, although I started out much earlier (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3663828&postcount=146)...pre-IBM-PC dominance.
There was one upgrade that I remember, finally running MS-DOS 6.11 with WordPerfect and wondering why I would ever want to use that silly windows thing someone had shown me. I ended up using Win 3.0 for a while, but fighting all the way. Same with 3.1. I did appreciate the Mac back then, but it was out of my price range at the time.
sanderella
October 31st, 2007, 06:28 PM
Spectrum BASIC then up through the DOSes, then Win 3.1, and up through the MSes, and then UBUNTU Breezy Badger, etc.:KS
ch_123
November 1st, 2007, 12:29 AM
Windows 95, first Linux was SUSE 9
Kappity
November 1st, 2007, 12:36 AM
DOS 2.0, I'm pretty sure. A fairly early DOS anyway. First linux I tried at home was Red Hat.
When I realized about a year and a half ago that it would be a losing battle trying to keep operating with Windows 98, I went with MAC OSX Tiger as my main OS. I like having some kind of linux as an alternative, though.
finferflu
November 1st, 2007, 02:00 AM
Commodore 128!! I don't know if its OS had any particular name.. I was only 6 year old :P
bruce89
November 1st, 2007, 02:04 AM
TOS with GEM on an Atari ST 520FM upgraded to 1MB memory.
InsertNameHere
November 1st, 2007, 02:06 AM
******* 3.1 (when I was 6) => ******* 98 => ******* XP => Edgy =>******* XP =>Feisty => Gusty
UbuntuniX
November 1st, 2007, 02:10 AM
Windows 95.
I feel so ashamed. :(
FG123
November 1st, 2007, 02:13 AM
Commodore 64. It rocked of course, since all it had was a terminal interface. :)
EDIT: Commodore BASIC 2.0 then. Turns out the BASIC wasn't just the pre-installed language, but the name of the OS as well.
MRiGnS
November 1st, 2007, 02:14 AM
Commodore BASIC 2.0
same for me.
good days back then at the beginning of the 80s.
lyndaj70
November 1st, 2007, 02:16 AM
My very first OS was DOS....
First computer I touched was a Commodore Vic-20 that someone donated to our 8th grade gifted class in Jackson, KY... It ran DOS of some type, though BASIC programming was built in...( Commodore BASIC was the OS I have discovered....)
I talked my dad into purchasing a Texas Instruments TI99-4A, and programmed stupid kid proggies in BASIC to my heart's content. This of course, was back in the early/mid 1980's...
Went up to DOS on floppies, then DOS on hard disks, Win3.1, yadda, yadda.
Now I run Ubuntu, Vista, Puppy, Damn Small Linux, Win2k, and work on these puppies for a living...
If I ever discover who donated that commodore all those years ago I need to thank them....
Raval
November 1st, 2007, 02:17 AM
Windows ME
Matakoo
November 1st, 2007, 02:29 AM
Well, dunno if Commodore 64 Basic 2.0 should count as an OS...but it was the first computer I owned anyway. A cousin had a VIC-20 and a friend had a ZX-Spectrum (48k as I recall it)...
What more...TOS/GEM on the Atari STe
AmigaDOS 1.2 (and continued with that up until AmigaOS 3.9. I've owned most Amiga models at one point or the other. R.I.P.
Mac System 7.x
Most versions of Windows, starting with Wfw 3.11. Considering that dreadful piece of crap, it is astonishing that Microsoft is still around never mind dominating the market.
First Linux was Red Had 5, and I've dabbled with Linux on and off since then. It was never my main OS until Edgy though. Now, Linux is all I use.
mhenry35
November 1st, 2007, 02:32 AM
Well, I'm going to take this to mean the OS of the first computer I owned.
My OS history is as follows:
Atari BASIC
Commodore BASIC (the ole C64)
TRS-DOS (TRS-80 Model 4)
MS-DOS 2.0 (on my first 8088 PC - couldn't afford a HD)
MS-DOS 3.1 (On my 8088-10 - a real fast PC at a whopping 10Mhz!)
MS-DOS 3.1/Windows 3.1 on my 80386sx machine at 20Mhz)
AmigaDOS - Yes, I had a Commodore Amiga 500, it was fun.
Windows 95/98 on a PC I got from work when it broke and I asked if I could take it home and fix it. I think it was a Pentium-60.
Then I got another broken PC, it was a Pentium II-MMX at 300Mhz. Keyboard wouldn't work, I got out my VHM and found there was a blown fuse on the motherboard. Soldered a new one in and it worked.
I ran Windows NT 4.0, and finally 2000 and XP. I just retired it this year.
Now I have my Dual Core 1.6Ghz Laptop, which came with Vista. I used Vista for a few weeks, and then decided to go Linux. Started with Ubuntu 7.04, then upgraded to Studio, then to Gutsy, after a lot of trouble, I finally got Gutsy to work acceptably.
daniel of sarnia
November 1st, 2007, 02:38 AM
dos 4, I was five. and whatever came on an apple in 92 when I was in JK using them.
After that I used all versons of windows, os 8, 9, and 10.x.
Four years ago I found linux, and I fell in love...
RandomJoe
November 1st, 2007, 03:34 AM
Had a TI-99/4A from junior high until halfway through college.
Borrowed an XT with DOS 5.0 while in college (around '93).
Finally scraped enough cash to build my first PC - 386 w/ DOS & WfWG. Ah, the halcyon days of AfterDark and DashBoard... ;) And memmaker / qemm / not-enough-free-memory... :(
While in college I started playing with Linux (Slackware, don't remember the exact version but definitely remember STACKS of floppies!)
Got through Win95 & briefly Win98 before I finally went 100% Linux (still Slack) sometime in 1998. Tried a few versions of Red Hat, but went back to Slack. Now I also use Ubuntu.
Now of all things, I am considering installing Win2K on one PC (gasp!) because some ham and scanner related software I want to run is much easier to deal with that way... Sacrilege... :lolflag:
Matakoo
November 1st, 2007, 03:43 AM
Then I got another broken PC, it was a Pentium II-MMX at 300Mhz. Keyboard wouldn't work, I got out my VHM and found there was a blown fuse on the motherboard. Soldered a new one in and it worked.
I ran Windows NT 4.0, and finally 2000 and XP. I just retired it this year.
One of my computers I still use is like that...PII, 300Mhz, 200 meg of ram. Works great as a home-server - running Ubuntu 6.06 Server, MySQL, Apache, sshd, nfs, and rsync with no problems at all. Swap is hardly ever used, and a current uptime of around 2 months.
blakecraw
November 1st, 2007, 03:58 AM
Hmm first os. I think that would be my dad's Debian system when I was real little. The only commands I knew were netscape and pppcon (I think pppcon was to connect to the dial up, but I didn't really know that then. I just remember hearing the modem dialing. lol). It dual booted to windows 95 with lilo I believe so I could play the various free games that shipped with windows 95 (Indiana Jones: the Fate of Atlantis, and Full Throttle. My all time top two games to date). About a year ago I first installed linux on my laptop, alongside xp, and haven't looked back. My xp partition keeps mysteriously shrinking as I uninstall games from it to make room for linux to take over : ) . Its still wasting space as backup in case I need to use a windows program for some unforseeable reason, and wine doesn't support it.
Dimitriid
November 1st, 2007, 04:22 AM
Im a lot younger than most here, I started on msdos but I honestly can't remember which one. When I was on elementary school I also used to mess around with my Uncle's windows 3.11 which I of course ended up crashing with a virus from a 5 1/4 floppy game I brought back from school ( it was a very cool qbasic game about some gorillas shooting bananas, not unlike worms! )
After that I stopped using pcs for a while cause I had a snes, but later on I picked it up again with windows 95 where we used to steal dial up accounts to get free access ( the only phone company was also the main ISP so they didn't care about stolen accounts since EVERYBODY paid through the nose on the actual phone calls made to connect anyway ). I also was there on the IRC craziness of everybody using DoS attacks ( I remembered changing my winsock to a third party one to be able to resist many attacks! good times :) ) But then my entire country got banned from dalnet for flooding, bots, massive DoS attacks, etc.
By the way its still enforced, a good 10 years after the fact:
http://kline.dal.net/akillinfo.htm
Look at all the *.mx at the very top :)
dmazzone
November 1st, 2007, 04:41 AM
My first OS was Windows 3.1 back when I was fourth grade, I was so excited to 3.11 so I could play hearts. Oh those were brilliant times.
mikeserv
November 1st, 2007, 04:57 AM
I had an Atari XE as a kid - I thought it was so weird that it came with a keyboard, cause I only used it to play games like Archon. When I got a little older my father invested $3000 in our 486DX33mHz. It came with Windows 3.0 (which we were able to upgrade to 3.1 in a few months) and MSDOS... 5? I think it was 5 something. I loved DOS, though. It felt pretty good to tell my computer to do something and have it obey without question - as long as I phrased my order correctly.
Remember Windows 3.11? "Windows for Workgroups." It was revolutionary.
I also remember downloading a beta version of Windows 95 off of a pirate BBS that I used to frequent - with my 9600bps modem. Man, that beta 95 crashed the whole harddrive in a day - but I think a low-level format fixed it. It's a good thing we had a tape drive.
-Mike
P.S. How many other people had custom autoexec.bat and config.sys files for different games they played?
ramjet_1953
November 1st, 2007, 05:28 AM
Octal switches on DEC PDP system with core memory.
Regards,
Roger :cool:
Markmiran
November 1st, 2007, 11:53 AM
I must be old. I can remember using ms-dos version 3, or was it 4. Anwyay then I moved onto windows 3.0, windows 3.1, 95, 98,2000,XP. Tried the vista beta - it was staight out junk... just like vista. Vista is good for one thing, directX 10. So you can play cool games. Thats it. After Vista beta - I tried linux, and finally fell upon Ubuntu. Never looked back, but I need windows to play games. Yes have tried every thing from wine to cedega, and they suck to get going. Dual boot easier! IF only they all would run under linux. What a dream life would be.
SonicSteve
November 1st, 2007, 12:06 PM
It was 1987, my dad took us kids computer shopping. One of the big choices was VGA or CGA. Unfortunately CGA won the day because of extreme price difference. It was like an extra $1000 for the VGA.
And the prevailing OS on the "99.9% IBM compatibles" as they were known. Back in the day when IBM had the lions share of the market I guess.
DOS 2.1
Then Win3.1 in about 1991
Bunch of mutt 486 machines in these years. Still dos and win3.1
Then Pentium 100mhz with win95
Quickly upgraded to win98.
Then XP pro. I loved it, it was so much better than anything MS had ever released.
Then Vista came, I didn't like what I saw coming.
Tried a few versions of Linux, Stuck with Ubuntu.
I still don't like what I see in Vista, from what I can see I never will. This coming from a guy who grew up with Windows learnt it and loved it.
ellis rowell
November 1st, 2007, 03:57 PM
I started with a BT mainframe, god knows what the system was. The wordprocessor we used was "Wordstar" (more like Wordcrap).
next was the Sinclair QL
then Amiga's
Then Windows 3.1, 95, 98, XP
then Ubuntu 6.10, 7.04 and now 7.10.
Early start? well yes, but I have been running a group for 19 years.
Adam_GUI
November 1st, 2007, 04:36 PM
Our first family computer was a Franklin. I remember it having a Gorilla as the mascot for the OS. Monitor only had two colors--Orange and Black. I remember playing Conan on it. Having to load the game with one side of the 5_1/4 floppy first, then flipping the disk and reinserting it to play the game. That and Jeopardy.
We went from that to Windows 3.11. Then to Windows 95, 98. Used 98 until my pop's computer finally died. Went to XP Home. I've experimented with lots of different Linux OSes.
I'm currently running XP Home. But I'm building an installation of FreeBSD7Beta in a VM with Gnome to try and make a live CD. (Most every live BSD based on Free BSD uses KDE and it's driving me crazy.)
I do know of Olive BSD, but it's NetBSD based. I can't even boot it on my computer as it can't find the kernel at boot. (I'm sure there's a work around, but for IceVM I'm not going to fight it.)
Sure, building FreeBSD from ports is taking forever. But it'll be worth it to have a Gnome-based live BSD to distribute to my friends.
(Is there a Gnome based live BSD already? If so...I'm just wasting my time, aren't I?)
justinhj
November 1st, 2007, 04:55 PM
First real computer was Amstrad PCW running CP/M
Then a PC using MS-DOS 3
Then Windows 2.0
Windows 95
Windows 98 and Slackware
Windows XP and Debian
Currently running Windows XP and Ubuntu
akniss
November 2nd, 2007, 03:14 PM
PC-Geos on a Magnavox computer ;-)
Windows 95 on an AST 486 (It had a whole 1GB hdd,..)
WIndows 98 on a HP Pavilion, which I'm now using as a Ubuntu print and file server
Windows XP on a HP Laptop, which I dual booted to Mandrake, then Ubuntu (Breezy)
Ubuntu (Dapper, Edgy, Feisty) on a Dell 600m laptop
Ubuntu (Gutsy) on my brand new Dell XPS m1330
FrankVdb
November 2nd, 2007, 07:33 PM
I started out with Basic on a Commodore 128 in 1985. Tried its CP/M system too (DOS look-a-like) but left it for what it was. That machine had three processors... More than what most machines are boasting now... :)
After that, I used all the stuff that Microsoft produced until I got fed up with the inherent unsafety of XP. That was last year. I have two machines on Windows for my work (no possibility to switch to Linux there). Someone installed a server at my office running Gentoo a couple of years ago. I was so impressed by its stability that I started to try it various Linux distros. Ubuntu is what I eventually got stuck with. :)
Zipster90
November 2nd, 2007, 08:07 PM
Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98 SE, XP Home, XP Pro, Vista Home Premium, then Ubuntu Gutsy today. What a long, strange trip it's been.
But I'm proud to say that the first computer I ever used...was a Mac. It was some old all-in-one thing made for schools that I think ran OS 8. Maybe even older. It was sometime in 1995.
OOOH. Almost forgot! One of my favorite computers was an old Apple II that was stashed in the corner of my third grade classroom. I would play Oregon Trail on that thing for what seemed to be hours!
picopir8
November 3rd, 2007, 03:52 AM
My first computer was a TI-99. The first IBM (yes actual IBM) was an XT that ran a really old version of DOS (2 or 3). I recall the day we went to the computer store and dropped a few hundred to upgrade our monochrome display to a CGA color one. My first computer of my own was a 486-DX33 w/ 4MB RAM, 120MB HD, and it ran DOS 5 (later upgraded to DOS 6) with Windows 3.1 but I got a free upgrade to Win 3.11.
Since then I have run every windows in both the home and NT line except ME. OS/2, and several flavors of Linux. At school I used VAX, and at work I use HPUX, Sun OS, several xterms, and Debian.
SammyBoy247
November 11th, 2007, 01:22 PM
I think it was MSDOS - definately a DOS system. I think I've still got the diskette some where.
First GUI was windows 3.11 again I think I have the original diskettes.
I have every intention of sticking with Ubuntu now (Might move to Kubuntu) so I guess from DOS to Ubuntu my journey is complete....
... until the next big thing
Shin_Gouki2501
November 11th, 2007, 01:27 PM
Msdos 6.2
seshomaru samma
November 11th, 2007, 01:38 PM
Sinclair Spectrum>WinXP>Ubuntu
sparky64
November 11th, 2007, 01:53 PM
Zx80.
followed by vic 20
followed by commodore64
followed by atari st
Followed by windows 98>Me (someone had to buy it)>xp
followed by suse9.0 proffesional and several others.
Exonimus
November 11th, 2007, 02:09 PM
let's see. DOS for a very short while, after that, windows 3.1. I remember playing prince of persia on dos, and I primarily used windows 3.1 for games like commander keen,pacman,etc. The good old days where I could beat my brother in bomberman hands down :D
then windows 98 for a real long time->xp in 2002 -> ubuntu feisty and ubuntu gutsy now. although I still use xp on a few of my other computers.
new2*buntu
November 11th, 2007, 02:18 PM
I started with WinME, then XP, and 2 months ago Ubuntu! I used it for about a month and then switched to Linux Mint though.
ft2482
November 11th, 2007, 02:24 PM
win 3.1
brunolabs
November 11th, 2007, 03:43 PM
Ms Dos
Keith Hedger
November 11th, 2007, 03:51 PM
Science Of Cambridge Mk14 (came unassembled!)
256 bytes of RAM (yes bytes!) hex keypad and 7 segment L.E.D. display
God I'm OLD!!
ekravche
November 11th, 2007, 09:25 PM
windows 3.0 was my first os.
RTSnLV
November 11th, 2007, 10:38 PM
Basic
Dos
Win 3.1
Win 95
Win 98se
Win 2k
Mandrake
Win XP
Redhat
Win XP x64
Ubuntu
list doent include live linux cd's I use for work like Knoppix and Helix
s3a
November 11th, 2007, 10:45 PM
My very first OS was windows 98 followed by 2000 then by xp then I was googling and found ubuntu and since they shipped free cd's im like "why not?" then I read about its potential and liked it so I went through hell to get it to work and now that most of the hell is over, I'm a happy teen. :D
Ebuntor
November 12th, 2007, 12:40 AM
Zx80.
followed by commodore64
followed by atari st
Glad I'm not the only one who used those two. I only used the Commodore a few times, I was only a few years old. My father bought the Atari ST (with Atari TOS as OS) around the time I was born I think.
I still remember playing King's Quest and Space Quest. Waiting for several minutes to load the next part of a level and switching floppies all the time, the good old 512 kb days. ;)
andhar
November 12th, 2007, 01:05 AM
First I ever used was a mac in school when I was 9 or 10 first I ever own was a copy of win 3.1 & dos running on a 486 dx2 66mhz (still have the cpu)
Nchalada
June 20th, 2008, 11:31 AM
IBM PC DOS something or another on an IBM Jr :D
EGA ftw! Wireless Keyboard too! a whopping 256 KB of RAM
billgoldberg
June 20th, 2008, 11:37 AM
Win 95 ... (I was about 10 at the time).
Sadly I used win 3.1 after that, haha.
barbedsaber
June 20th, 2008, 11:50 AM
95, XP, XP again, and when that slowed to a crawl for the fifth time, I switched to ubuntu.
sylentdogg
June 20th, 2008, 11:59 AM
TI99/4a Extended Basic was the first, then DOS on the IBM XT, next Windows 3.1 through XP, and finally Ubuntu6.06-8.04.
kreoton
June 20th, 2008, 12:53 PM
DOS->Win 3.11->Win 95->Win 98->Win Me(month or 2)->Win XP->Win Vista
I'm addicted :(
_DD_
June 20th, 2008, 12:56 PM
DOS or Win 3.11. I'm a bit young to remember dos, but Simfarm on 3.11 was awesome :D
Wobedraggled
June 20th, 2008, 01:02 PM
GEOS on the C=64 then Amiga Workbench
etnlIcarus
June 20th, 2008, 01:15 PM
Kickstart/Workbench on the Commodore Amiga.
GEM on the Atari ST.
Windows 3.1.
Not actually sure which came first.
Joeb454
June 20th, 2008, 01:16 PM
Win 3.1 was mine at school. My first OS at home was Windows 95 :)
jeremy1138
June 20th, 2008, 01:19 PM
Let's see... The very first computer my family ever owned was a Compaq that we bought at Walmart. It had 8MB of RAM, a 1GB hard disk, a 233MHz processor, like an 8x CDROM, a 28.8k modem(is that right?) and it ran on Windows 95. It was slower than death on crutches but it was considered a beast of a computer at the time. It kinda seems silly now... It's amazing how far we've come just in my lifetime. Anyway, after that I had a computer that ran on Windows 2000, then I skipped right to XP and I'd been using that os exclusively until last year (2007) when I discovered Linux. I was in college at the time and my friend's little brother, who was a Linux fanatic, introduced me to Mandriva Linux. It worked great but had a few kinks that I just couldn't figure out so I started looking for something a bit more user friendly. That's when I stumbled on Ubuntu. I was really intrigued by how user friendly it was and how great the Ubuntu community was. The Ubuntu community is really something. Since then It's been just Ubuntu for the most part; I still dual boot XP but I don't really use it much.
Ozor Mox
June 20th, 2008, 01:47 PM
BBC -> Acorn Archimedes -> Windows 3.1 -> Windows 95 -> Windows 98 -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP -> Ubuntu
The worst of those was probably Windows 95 or 98. The instability of a DOS-based OS combined with the fact that it was a family computer with multiple users, and users are just a hack job on Windows, meant it wasn't the best experience. Especially as I was the 'computery one' who had to fix problems such as viruses that others had opened, or dodgy software! Our shared computer is now running Xubuntu, and it's amazing how much better multiple users is on Linux.
FFighter
June 20th, 2008, 02:25 PM
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups around 1994
Then... Windows 95 (MS Plus crap included) < Windows 98 < Windows ME < Windows 98SE < Windows XP < Windows XPSP2 < Ubuntu
Next one? Probably Mac OSX :D
William Dojinn
June 20th, 2008, 03:06 PM
Ahh history here.
question is if you count the disks that went with the apple LLe or not as an 'os'. If so then that back in '90
If not then DOS in 94
Win 3.1 same year
Windows for Workgroups in 95
Windows 95 later that year
Win98 in '00
Windows 2000 in 03
Vector 4.3 in 04
Knoppix (due to hard drive death) that december
Windows xp in 05 (when the new harddrive came in, which came with added ram)
Vector 5.8 fall of 07 (could've been one of the RC's, could've been final, I forget).
Currently using xp, likely going to introduce my elder brother to linux via kubuntu and a machine thats gotten from a local recycling group.
unisol
June 20th, 2008, 03:11 PM
pc-dos3.3 to dos5.0 with geoworks2.0 on top. then i got a 386 and installed win3.1.
x0as
June 20th, 2008, 03:13 PM
TOS on an Atari.
Zero Prime
June 20th, 2008, 03:15 PM
I wish I could say. My first computer was a Rainbow. I've googled and can't find what I'm looking for. All I remember is that my Computer Electronics teacher was going to throw them out. I asked him instead of throwing them in the dump if I could toss them in my trunk. I loved that computer. I do remember that it had no GUI.
perlluver
June 20th, 2008, 03:16 PM
Windows 95>Windows 98>Windows ME> Windows 2000> Windows XP >Vista Beta> Ubuntu > and too many more Linux's to name.
Cope57
June 20th, 2008, 03:27 PM
QDOS > 86-DOS > Windows 3.0 > 3.1 > 3.11 > 95 > 98 > 98 SE > XP > Many different distributions of Linux since 2003, and have been using Debian for about two years now.
Oh and have been using 64bit cpu's since 2003 also.
cookieofdoom
June 20th, 2008, 03:41 PM
DOS... I was too young to remember what version, though.
gameryoshi600
June 20th, 2008, 04:04 PM
Windows 95.
Zeotronic
June 20th, 2008, 04:25 PM
Oh man... the first computer I had access to on which to unleash my childish will (as I was a small child then), was a DOS computer, or something too primitive for me to scour the net for... We're talking something from the 80s if not earlier, its GUI was mostly text based, and without a cursor. I still remember the first time dad let me use it unsupervised... it ended up in a repair shop for the rest of the year... fortunately that was not a sign of things to come, for now I am a self proclaimed computer genius... though of course this is merely kidding... regardless, I am far above the average.
My progression... from that fated Operating System, was not near as interesting as that story I just told... I had whatever that was as far back as I can remember, followed by XP around 2000 , and then Xubuntu in late 2006... just in time for 6.10... and from there? Of course I don't know that yet... but proprietary OSes seem unlikely... except for maybe Mac... I would love to get my hands on a Mac... though I would probably be disappointed.
nullspace
June 20th, 2008, 04:32 PM
Let's see. What ever the TI-99/4A runs.
Then,
MS-DOS
DOS-Shell
Windows 3.11 -> 95 -> 98
RH Linux 6
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Debian
Ubuntu
etnlIcarus
June 20th, 2008, 04:43 PM
Oh man... the first computer I had access to on which to unleash my childish will (as I was a small child then), was a DOS computer, or something too primitive for me to scour the net for... We're talking something from the 80s if not earlier, its GUI was mostly text based, and without a cursor. I still remember the first time dad let me use it unsupervised... it ended up in a repair shop for the rest of the year... fortunately that was not a sign of things to come, for now I am a self proclaimed computer genius... though of course this is merely kidding... regardless, I am far above the average.
My progression... from that fated Operating System, was not near as interesting as that story I just told... I had whatever that was as far back as I can remember, followed by XP around 2000 , and then Xubuntu in late 2006... just in time for 6.10... and from there? Of course I don't know that yet... but proprietary OSes seem unlikely... except for maybe Mac... I would love to get my hands on a Mac... though I would probably be disappointed.
I think breaking an OS/computer is part-and-course of becoming a computer genius. Luckily, the only computers I broke by doing things I shouldn't have were a couple of school ones and I avoided getting blamed for those in both cases. :p
NikoC
June 20th, 2008, 04:51 PM
DOS 3.something... it came with a 20 page installation manual and a 350 pages counting troubleshooting document :lolflag:
Kept using DOS upto 6.x (I think) and windows 3.1 followed by windows 3.11.
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows Me
A couple of sidestepts to linux distro's (including Redhat)
Windows XP
Started messing around with Ubuntu in 2005 (Hoary Hedgehog it was I think)
Currently: Hardy Heron (hey, that's HH again), Mac Os and XP
ankursethi
June 20th, 2008, 04:58 PM
I got my own computer in 2003. Before that, I had (ab)used Win95, Win98, WinME on other people's computers (to their great dissapointment).
On my own system, I used WinXP for less than an year. Then tried several distros until I settled on something called the "Warty Warthrog" in 2004. Since then, I've used every single Ubuntu release upto Hardy.
Kevbert
June 20th, 2008, 05:08 PM
CPM and a version of dos on a Sharp MZ80K. To load the basic interpreter you had to load a cassette into the built in drive.
d3drocks
June 20th, 2008, 06:19 PM
Windows 3.1
i was 4 or 5 at the time.
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