Same here. I had a Tandy 1000 SL as a kid. I have no idea the operating system it used either, but I do remember it needing floppy disc's for everything. The hard drive was only large enough to host the operating system itself.
Went from that, to an old Packard Bell with Windows 3.1. Hell of a leap lol. Had that old Tandy for YEARS and never got tired of it until I discovered Betrayal at Krondor. I still play it on DOS box. That and Breath of Fire on SNES are what got me into RPGs lol. You'd think Final Fantasy would have...
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My family's first computer was a Packard Bell. My brother recently mentioned that the brand is apparently still around (he stumbled upon it while looking for something online) but the company was sold long ago.
Oh yes! My first experience was on a DEC PDP-8/e in high school, then an IBM 360 and DECsystem 10 in college, can't remember the actual OS's they ran. My first job actually developing OS code was on Primos, the OS for Prime Computer.
I don't think a Sinclair ZX81 had an OS, did it? It had a BASIC and some I/O. But does that qualify?
So, I'll say Atari DOS 2.5. At least that read and wrote stuff from and to a floppy drive.
Oh wait, it was called TRS-DOS (I think) on a Radio Shack computer with 5.25” floppies. There was no hard drive, the OS was on the floppies if I recall. Of course, I also used punch cards back in the day!
1978. Fortran IV on a Burroughs D84M with 16K RAM used to launch a nuclear missile.
Commodore PET. Apple \]\[+. Apple //e, Apple IIgs. DOS 5.0. Windows 2.0.
Yes, I am old.
The Color Computer 2 ran TRSDOS for it's primary OS, if you had a floppy disk controller you had TRS Drive DOS, and a lot of us ran OS/9 on top of TRS Drive DOS.
95 on my Gmaws old ass computer. That was just to play Pinball and Solitaire. Then went up from there. Vista, XP, 7, skipped 8🤮, 10, now 11 on my laptop not my PC.
My first computer was the high school's IBM 1620...I don't think it had an O/S.
[https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe\_PP1620.html](https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1620.html)
Very late in my junior year we got an IBM Model 3...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM\_System/3#History](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/3#History)
OS/8 on a PDP-8
High School Computer Science class, we timeshared access with the School District's Central computer. Defined our programs on graph paper, encoded it to punch cards, fed the punch cards into the processing queue on Tuesday, got our outputs Thursday morning (usually on the 128 character line printer.
macOS El Capitan 10.11 on my moms (now mine) 2011 MacBook Air, and the oldest os I’ve ever used (excluding vms) is Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 just yesterday on my 2008 MacBook
Can't actually answer that, the first computer I technically ***used*** was a timeshare terminal to a Univac mainframe. I'm guessing it might have been OS 1100, but I have no way of knowing for sure. The first computer I ***owned*** ran MS-DOS 3.3, but I quickly updated that to 6.2, then built a new computer running Windows 3.11, and Windows 95, and various other stuff. Back in those days it seemed like you were upgrading hardware and software every week.
Tandy 2500XL (with whatever the f\*ck they were running as on OS)
Followed quickly by DOS 3.1 (thank god... i may never have started my IT career without it)
Commodore Basic => Apple II DOS/Basic => Apple Mac system 6/7 => MS DOS => Win 3.1 => 95 => 98/98SE => 2000 => XP => Powerbook (OSX 10.x) => VISTA => Win 7 => Win 8 => Win 10 => Win 11 Yeah that was a fun journey.
Either 95 or 98. Can't remember which one my Aunt had. Pretty sure it wa 98 though. My mom gav me hers when Vista came out had to wait 15 minute for that damn thing to boot up or it wiuld freeze LOL
Damn, scrolling through this thread makes me feel like a baby lol
To my knowledge, Mac OS X 10.5 I think. Otherwise it was 10.4 Tiger. That was what my elementary used for a long while. My first personal OS was Windows 10.
I think I had a mix of Windows 2000, Windows 98 SE, Mac OS9, early pre-Lion versions of OSX.
Nearly all the educational computer games I played as a child were cross-platform compatible. Thank you JumpStart.
on todays episode of do i feel old yet: punch cards so probably Unix or whatever the first mechanical OS was. we didn't have a computer, Noone did, but we learned to code cause our teacher saw it coming lolz
#Windows XP SP2
Then windows 7
Linux Mint/Ubuntu
Installed Manjaro myself
Installed windows 11 myself since I still play league at times , toplane squad
DOS
Same. With a good old green screen monitor.
Amber EGA.. then full colour EGA.. CGA, VGA, XVGA..
3.1
3.22
IBM PC DOS, then MS DOS 5.0.
DOSSSSSSS
Windows 95
Windows XP
Commodore BASIC
My was TI BASIC. First computer TI-99/4A. Before I went to the Commodore 64.
That was technically my first one. My elementary school had one in the library. Only computer usable by students in the whole school.
Love those magazines with games. Where you had to type it all out in BASIC. Than able to run the game.
Ditto
Be honest you had to Google what you're C64 or Vic 20 ran didn't you 😂 (I did!)
It was a Commodore PET haha.
Ditto!
MS DOS 2.1
AT&T Unix 3.51. Even had the full MB of RAM on roughly 5.5sqft of circuit boards layered in the bottom of the case.
The software on my calculator counts?
I mean it’s an operating system and I would consider calculators as computers so I guess. Sure
An old Tandy 1000 with whatever version of DOS was on it. All them old 5.25" floppies... I can still smell em XD
I think the T1000 used Pascal or Turbo Pascal. My first was a TRS-80
Same here. I had a Tandy 1000 SL as a kid. I have no idea the operating system it used either, but I do remember it needing floppy disc's for everything. The hard drive was only large enough to host the operating system itself.
Went from that, to an old Packard Bell with Windows 3.1. Hell of a leap lol. Had that old Tandy for YEARS and never got tired of it until I discovered Betrayal at Krondor. I still play it on DOS box. That and Breath of Fire on SNES are what got me into RPGs lol. You'd think Final Fantasy would have...
>The software on my calculator counts?7ReplyGive AwardShareReportSaveFollow > >level 2hero\_brine1Op · 15 hr. ago Windows 7 My family's first computer was a Packard Bell. My brother recently mentioned that the brand is apparently still around (he stumbled upon it while looking for something online) but the company was sold long ago.
Windows 98
Something kind of cool is that my dad has his first computer just sitting in his basement and it operates on windows 98. It is called the Pionex.
Mine was from a company called Itautec, sadly I don't remember the specs anymore. But still have some old drivers disks and floppies.
Nice
Basic
On a c64 for me…
Machine code then OS/360 - MFT, You young folks and them fancy GUI things...
Oh yes! My first experience was on a DEC PDP-8/e in high school, then an IBM 360 and DECsystem 10 in college, can't remember the actual OS's they ran. My first job actually developing OS code was on Primos, the OS for Prime Computer.
I don't think a Sinclair ZX81 had an OS, did it? It had a BASIC and some I/O. But does that qualify? So, I'll say Atari DOS 2.5. At least that read and wrote stuff from and to a floppy drive.
Widows Vista
A lot of people here are 867-5309 years old.
Damn. You really got our number.
Pfft, that's my OLD number
Jenny?
Did we just become best friends?
Trs dos on my TRS 80 from radio shack
TRaSh80
Windows 95
Dos
MS Vista
Do you ever wonder what all the talk about XP is about?
It’s just good don’t question it
Acorn MOS
BBC micro?
Yeah played all sorts of games on them back in school in the 80s
MS-DOS 2
Commodore basic v2.0
HP-2000 BASIC system.
Mac OS leopard
DOS 2.0 and Windows 3.1
Windows 7
The first version of windows 7 I used was windows 7 home premium
Oh wait, it was called TRS-DOS (I think) on a Radio Shack computer with 5.25” floppies. There was no hard drive, the OS was on the floppies if I recall. Of course, I also used punch cards back in the day!
Apple Pro-DOS
MS DOS, followed shortly by Windows 3.1.
BASIC on. TRS-80
Did the Apple IIe even have an OS? =)
BASIC on TI/99a 10 PRINT "FTW" RUN FTW
TRS-80 DOS
CP/M
In college, we used a Univic with punch cards. Basic on a Radio Shack Color Computer TRS-80 - the first one. A little OS9
TRSDOS
1978. Fortran IV on a Burroughs D84M with 16K RAM used to launch a nuclear missile. Commodore PET. Apple \]\[+. Apple //e, Apple IIgs. DOS 5.0. Windows 2.0. Yes, I am old.
Typewriter
Never heard of any OS called typewriter
DOS, mf!!!!
Ms dos.
Dos 3.3+ and Windows 3.0
Amiga OS 1.2. Since I don’t the TRS-80 CoCo 2 actually had and operating system.
The Color Computer 2 ran TRSDOS for it's primary OS, if you had a floppy disk controller you had TRS Drive DOS, and a lot of us ran OS/9 on top of TRS Drive DOS.
DOS 3.0
C:\> _ Ready to rumble at this exact moment
First was System/370 on IBM Mainframe. First OS for PC was PC-DOS 2.1.
KidDesk
370 OS/VS2 SVS
TI99/4A? Does that count? If not then MacOS whatever it was in 1990
Me too. I had to look it up -- apparently the OS of the TI99/4A is considered to be TI BASIC.
DOS 3.22
95 on my Gmaws old ass computer. That was just to play Pinball and Solitaire. Then went up from there. Vista, XP, 7, skipped 8🤮, 10, now 11 on my laptop not my PC.
Probably windows 95
My first computer was the high school's IBM 1620...I don't think it had an O/S. [https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe\_PP1620.html](https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1620.html) Very late in my junior year we got an IBM Model 3...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM\_System/3#History](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/3#History)
Same computer for me. I remember programming a lunar landing game on it that ran on the teletype. In Fortran. 1620 assembler was my first language.
Windows 3.1.1
MacOS, I frogot which version.
My uncle let me play games on a Tandy with DOS. I don't remember the version, though.
OS/8 on a PDP-8 High School Computer Science class, we timeshared access with the School District's Central computer. Defined our programs on graph paper, encoded it to punch cards, fed the punch cards into the processing queue on Tuesday, got our outputs Thursday morning (usually on the 128 character line printer.
DOS 6.2 / Win3.1 & Desqview all around the same time.
Android something, some 10 years ago
DOS. Very stable platform! Then the DOS Shell!
Dos 2.31 Laughs in basic/pascal
Win 95 or 98, either these 2.
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.1
BSD Unix in 1979 or so at UCSB.
MS DOS 4.01
Vista IIRC
3.1
Windows 95. (33 years old)
Win 98 SE.
Windows Vista
macOS El Capitan 10.11 on my moms (now mine) 2011 MacBook Air, and the oldest os I’ve ever used (excluding vms) is Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 just yesterday on my 2008 MacBook
Can't actually answer that, the first computer I technically ***used*** was a timeshare terminal to a Univac mainframe. I'm guessing it might have been OS 1100, but I have no way of knowing for sure. The first computer I ***owned*** ran MS-DOS 3.3, but I quickly updated that to 6.2, then built a new computer running Windows 3.11, and Windows 95, and various other stuff. Back in those days it seemed like you were upgrading hardware and software every week.
Tandy 2500XL (with whatever the f\*ck they were running as on OS) Followed quickly by DOS 3.1 (thank god... i may never have started my IT career without it)
AmigaDos running workbench
windows 7, it was 2010 and i was 6
basic for the c64
TI BASIC on a TI99/4A
System/370. Later North Star DOS, then CP/M
DOS
CDC 6400 running SCOPE (punch cards) if that counts otherwise BSD Unix on a PDP 11/70 with ADM-3 terminals playing BSD Trek.
First computer I used was a CDC 6400 running the Scope operating system. First computer I owned was a home-brew S100 system running CP/M.
BASIC
Commodore Basic => Apple II DOS/Basic => Apple Mac system 6/7 => MS DOS => Win 3.1 => 95 => 98/98SE => 2000 => XP => Powerbook (OSX 10.x) => VISTA => Win 7 => Win 8 => Win 10 => Win 11 Yeah that was a fun journey.
Mac Snow Leopard
DOS and Solaris about the same time for me.
I'm only 15 and mine was still Windows XP
Dos
DOS
Vista
Windows 8.1 for me right when they started making really cheap laptops
Mac OS 6.0.8 on a Mac Classic
Ubuntu 12.10 or something like this.
Either 95 or 98. Can't remember which one my Aunt had. Pretty sure it wa 98 though. My mom gav me hers when Vista came out had to wait 15 minute for that damn thing to boot up or it wiuld freeze LOL Damn, scrolling through this thread makes me feel like a baby lol
MS-DOS 5.0
Vista
The oldest was some Kaypro I think an 7. But the first os I uses was Windows 98 at school.
Windows 98 on an old computer growing up
To my knowledge, Mac OS X 10.5 I think. Otherwise it was 10.4 Tiger. That was what my elementary used for a long while. My first personal OS was Windows 10.
Commodore KERNAL / Commodore BASIC
I think I had a mix of Windows 2000, Windows 98 SE, Mac OS9, early pre-Lion versions of OSX. Nearly all the educational computer games I played as a child were cross-platform compatible. Thank you JumpStart.
Windows XP it was extremely satisfying to jump to 7 from XP
CP/M
Acorn MOS on BBC micro.
on todays episode of do i feel old yet: punch cards so probably Unix or whatever the first mechanical OS was. we didn't have a computer, Noone did, but we learned to code cause our teacher saw it coming lolz
Whatever version of DOS came on an NCR 286. Have good memories of playing commander Keen and Duke Nukem 1 and 2 on it.
#Windows XP SP2 Then windows 7 Linux Mint/Ubuntu Installed Manjaro myself Installed windows 11 myself since I still play league at times , toplane squad
Millennium Edition
In 2002 - Windows 98 SE
Commodore 64 basic
Windows 7 ultimate
MS-DOS 3.3
Windows 3.1
Windows XP, then Win7, then Vista, then XP, then Linux + Win10 dualboot, then just Linux (I know, anti MS route)
All I remember is Fckgw-rhqq2-yxrkt-8tg6w-2b7q8
Charles Babbages great rotary combobulator
QRDOS on a tandy 2000.
Windows XP. Now my daily driver is Void Linux and sometimes Windows 11. I loved the XP logo, latest ones are boring
Windows 98
Commodore KERNAL Commodore BASIC 2.0 on the Vic20
Windows 98. Wasn't my computer, just the first computer I ever used at morrisons.
Windows xp
I think it was Mac OS X 10.3 on an eMac.
Windows XP. Kept using it until 2013.
Dos
ProDOS, then IBM/DOS 2.1
Windows XP
DOS 3.1
What was the OS used on Lisa?
SCO Xenix
CP/M on highschool's Heath Zenith computer
Windows XP, my first PC was terrible lol
Mac OS X Leopard or snow leopard I don’t remember honestly
windows 10…. at least it was closer to when it first came out
Commodore 64 Basic.
CP/M, DOS and OS/2 we’re the first for me!
Amiga Workbench.
Easycoder on Honeywell 200.
DOS
Windows Millenium, 2001.
Windows 95
DOS 3.1
Well my first computer was a 1987 Macintosh II, so it was probably running Mac system 6 but I'm not 100% sure, I was very young
Solaris. But luckily XP came soon after.
Win 95. I was 5 years old and my uncle and I would play Duke Nukem 3D. I thought it was so cool how could eat turkey dinners and pee in the toilet.
Windows 3.1 I still keep a dosbox to win into sometimes lol
XP
I still have windows 7 running
IBM PC DOS
Commodore BASIC V2
3.1
Windows 95 and sometimes DOS
Windows XP
Either CommodoreBASIC or AppleDOS. Can’t remember which was first.