What was the first Operating System you used?

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DOS

46% (76 votes)

Windows 3.11

10% (17 votes)

Windows 95

11% (18 votes)

Windows 98 or Me

12% (19 votes)

Windows 2000 or NT

0% (0 votes)

Windows XP

6% (10 votes)

Windows Vista

1% (1 vote)

Mac OS 9 or earlier

4% (6 votes)

Mac OS X or later

0% (0 votes)

Other...please leave a comment and tell us which one.

10% (17 votes)

Total votes: 164

Kernal on my VIC-20

Submitted by Smart Computer User on October 23, 2007 - 1:20pm.

Oh, the hours I spent in front of that wondrous 8-bit beauty.

10 Print "Hello Daniel ";
20 Repeat

I think I got it the Christmas of 1980. I can remember having to go back through code and abbreviate commands because everything had to run in 16K or less. Now THOSE were the days!

First OS used

Submitted by Smart Computer User on October 23, 2007 - 12:34pm.

It was CP/M on a BBC Model B

CP/M on an Alspa I computer

Submitted by Smart Computer User on October 22, 2007 - 5:23pm.

CP/M on an Alspa I computer, 1981, made in Mountain View, CA. A shoebox filled with a 8" floppy, Zilog Z80, 64k RAM.

My first operating system was...

Submitted by Smart Computer User on October 20, 2007 - 11:00pm.

CP/M on a Heathkit H89 with 64k RAM and a 70K hard-sector floppy disk. Anyone remember these? It was great! Wish I had it back.

1st computer

Submitted by Smart Computer User on October 20, 2007 - 11:49am.

Apple IIe, circa 1981. Programed in DOS, 5 1/4" floppies. Boy, that was long ago enough for me! (grin) June

First operating system

Submitted by Smart Computer User on October 19, 2007 - 11:01am.

NEW DOS 80

Commodore Amiga OS

Submitted by Smart Computer User on October 18, 2007 - 6:06pm.

When the Amiga came out it had better sound and graphics than the Mac with a Windows GUI, while the PC was still using DOS windows and a command line interface. The Amiga also had a good command line interface while the Mac didn't.

Today my preferred OS is Mac OSX, but I am very familiar with Window XP, etc.

Russ,
Clarkston, MI

First Operating system used.

Submitted by Smart Computer User on October 17, 2007 - 9:52pm.

Very first was Fortran/Basic on an IBM 360 mainframe w/teletypwriter time share system. No video monitors. Output was ink on paper. 30 BPS acoustic modems in wooden boxes the size of amo boxes. We had a 1Kb account on the tape drive downtown. I was 15 years old and the year was 1970.

First OS used

Submitted by Smart Computer User on October 17, 2007 - 6:54pm.

CP/M - pre-Commodore

rickb

I remember that!

Submitted by Smart Computer User on October 18, 2007 - 6:08am.

I used CP/M on my C-128. There weren't too many programs available but one I do remember was a word processor that was really neat. It was cool because after you completed a sentence it "typed" it on the printer like a type writer. Does anyone know what that was called?

I'd like a program like that today.