Your first OS

Commodore BASIC was the shell on my Commodore 16 and 64 I had as a kid, and I got GEOS later. I bought an Apple IIe in high school and ran it with Apple DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. The first desktop I built (286) ran DOS 3.3 because I avoided DOS 4.0 until software caught up and bugs were fixed. I also ran DOS and Windows/386 2.1 when I got a 386 the next year.

I also had a Tandy PocketPC between the 64 and IIe, but I have no idea what OS it ran. It had a BASIC shell.

As far as functionality, usability and stability, Windows 7 is probably one of best I've used.
 
Vic20->C64->Amiga 1000 (still have it).

I don't know I would class VIC20/C64 as having an OS.

So perhaps AmigaDOS 1.1.
 
DOS something or other when I was 9. Loved playing games and all the Apogee shareware on that.
 
$IBSYS (?) on the IBM 7040. CPU, tape drives, 1403 printer, card reader and card punch. No disks.

Then OS/360 on a 360/50 with 64 KB (if memory serves) of main memory, and "fast" 2311 disk drives.

First x80 OS was CP/M 1.4.
 
3.1 which I then upgraded to 3.11 for Workgroups via 10x floppy disk :D
 
Lots of great memories in this thread.

MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, and Apple System 6, not counting software on the Apple IIe.
Ah, the early 90s, those were the days!
 
HeavensCloud said:
DOS something or other when I was 9. Loved playing games and all the Apogee shareware on that.
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Oleg34 said:
What was your first OS and what is your favorit of all times would be?
If you ask me. my first OS was Windows 3.1. As for my favorite OS of all times. It was and still is Windows 2000. :)
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My first OS was Windows 98. My favorite would be Windows XP or 7. XP because I used it back in high school and some college at a time where I could spend all my money on hardware and games. It's nice to nostaglia I guess. Windows 7 was an awesome OS overall though. Very user friendly but with enough options for the power user to make their own. Linux Mint is slowly making me a believer in it and very well could be my favorite OS in time.
 
My first OS that I used was DOS, but I don't know what version was it, though I do remember it having Windows 3.0 (the one with blue startup screen).

The first OS that I learned to tinker with is DOS 3.3, I have used most of the DOS versions up to the last version (I believe it was either 6.22 or 7).

The OS I have used:

Win 95
Win 97 (the second version of 95, one that would stop you from booting into windows again if you ever booted into windows)
Win 98 (the very first system I regarded as a total PoS, I was so unimpressed with it that I did not even try to use 98SE)
Win Me (another PoS system, everytime I tried to burn a CD, it would crash if I went on the internet)
Win 2000 (the system my university was using initially)
Win XP (the first system since 95 that I was actually impressed with)
Win Vista (another PoS, games wouldn't close properly so everytime I want to open the game again, I have to reboot, reverted back to Win XP whenever possible)
Win 7 (the other good system)
Win 8.1 (Uninstalled it because CoH2 wouldn't run at all, even though I hardly play the game, I was sorely dissappointed as I wanted to try 8.1, but decided that since I cannot run all games I have on that system, I reverted back to Win 7).
 
Is everyone in this thread 90 years old. Mine was Windows 95, of course.
 
Megalith said:
Is everyone in this thread 90 years old. Mine was Windows 95, of course.
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lol

Some people had those old home PCs from the 1980s when they were kids, like me. Some others are probably creeping up on elderly. :p
 
MS-DOS 6.2 and WFW 3.11. I gamed on consoles (SNES/Genesis) but wanted to move over to PC because the games at that time looked way more advanced. I was maybe a year or two late on the DOOM craze but Quake blew me away. I haven't touched a gaming console since. ;)
 
Damn, that's been some time back. :)

Started out with a Timex Sinclair 1000, moved to a Commodore C=64, Amiga 1000, 500, 2000HD, 3000, 4000, then a 486SX, and damn near everything between then and the current machine be in my sig. I've run all versions of DOS and Windows from V3 to 8.1, and even used OS/2 Warp for a while. Favorite OS I think would have to go to the Amiga OS 3. Such innovation, and way ahead of it's time. Good days and fond memories...
 
CP/M on a Heathkit my Uncle and I built.... read break out soldering iron...those days ( similar to the H89(no floppy on monitor) what we would call a Desktop case below, and a case with 2x 12" floppies below that) about 1981-2 or so. Modem was an acoustic maybe 300 baud that you plugged your new touch tone Bell phone handset into the top of and the speaker and mic do the work. We would dial up CFB(Canadian Forces Base) Rockclifffe and surf the network...could get a few Universities that way too. Getting a IBM 8086 a year or 2 later wasn't as exciting.

-BlackDragon
 
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Commodore VIC20 here (not that that's really an O/S).... FIrst true O/S was MSDOS 2.0 I think... Boy I miss 'copy con' and 'edlin'.... :D
 
First OS I ever used: Windows 3.1
First OS I ever owned: Mac OS 7
 
heatlesssun said:
First OS? I guess whatever OS ran an a TRS-80 Model 1.
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I had a TRS-80 Model 1 as well. I had to look up what OS it used, because I had no idea. At first, I thought it was TRS-DOS, but that was for later models that had floppy drives; I had the original cassette drive model that didn't need a Disk Operating System.

I'm having to read between the lines on some articles but I guess the TRS-80 Model 1's operating system was BASIC because it didn't run anything else.
 
ever used..... Probably DR DOS.... ever manipulated.... probably dos 5.0. Man I miss the good ol days


Favorite ever though probably had to be windows 3.11 on a 75mhz Pentium with 32 mb of ram and internet explorer 5.5 on it.
 
Some version of AppleDOS or another.
Fairly quickly followed by ProDOS on a IIgs. (upgraded to 4Meg of RAM, woo! though granted most of the time ~2Meg was a RAMdisk)
 
While I really only used it for papers in Jr. high, it was my mom's office laptop with IBM's PC-DOS on it.
For my first PC that I actually owned, it was MS-DOS and (I think) Windows 3.1.
 
evilsofa said:
I'm having to read between the lines on some articles but I guess the TRS-80 Model 1's operating system was BASIC because it didn't run anything else.
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Microsoft BASIC I guess was the OS as I don't think there was anything else you could do normally but run BASIC instructions with some extensions for cassette storage I think. I don't think the Model 1 ever supported floppy drives, they would have cost prohibitive at any rate.
 
Oleg34 said:
What was your first OS and what is your favorit of all times would be?
If you ask me. my first OS was Windows 3.1. As for my favorite OS of all times. It was and still is Windows 2000. :)
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IIRC win 3.1 was simply a gui that sat on dos, not a real OS.

Thats like saying my favorite os is "X11R6" and not "Linux"
 
Commodore Vic 20, C64 Amiga 500 amigados 1.3 upgraded to 2.04 amiga 1200 with amigados 3.0 Then Commodore went bankrupt. Swore I would never go off main steam again

By the way still have all of those in basement in boxes Ha ha..
 
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