What was your first operating system you used at home

djd3vl69 · 06-18-2005, 07:23 PM

Awww, gotta love my first, the crappy 3.11, thoses were the days

triniblaq · 06-22-2005, 07:49 AM

lmao. i used 3.11 on the laptop when my bro got my this toshiba laptop, if im not mistaken. no internet whatsoever

HurleY(916) · 06-23-2005, 07:42 PM

Other DOS...It was terrible, lol. I remember those days, and don't miss them.

**Mark** · 06-24-2005, 09:03 AM

The only thing 3.1 was good for was drawing things in paint

JimmyTheRat · 06-24-2005, 09:14 PM

oldschool dos shell or whatever that thing was called. only thing i used it for was to play Prince of Persia 1, that game was tight

Invizzible · 06-25-2005, 05:47 AM

I remember the DOS shell days.

I was in the Navy from 87-91 and worked in an office with one desktop computer. It had a 286 chip at a blistering 66Mhz, a green monochrome EGA monitor and a 20MB hard drive. I remember how god-like I thought I was when my office splurged to get me a second 20MB hard drive for a mind-numbing total of 40MB. That computer didn't even have a shell, it was DOS commands or nothing.

That computer seemed like a powerhouse compared to my home PC at that time, which had an 8088 processor and a 4-color CGA monitor and also ran DOS. I can't remember what version it was running.

And you're right, the original Prince of Persia was a great game. Everybody thought the graphics were totally awesome and tripped out about how smoothly the guy ran and jumped. "That looks SO real," we'd say. Those were the days.

BadMojo · 07-03-2005, 09:47 AM

My first OS was Dos on a Commodor 64

7cg · 07-03-2005, 12:45 PM

Ms Dos

Camaro · 07-03-2005, 06:41 PM

95, on a Pentium 100.

~~luda167~~ · 07-07-2005, 03:12 PM

windows 3.1.........talk about boring

**agentHibby** · 07-08-2005, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Invizzible

I remember the DOS shell days.

I was in the Navy from 87-91 and worked in an office with one desktop computer. It had a 286 chip at a blistering 66Mhz, a green monochrome EGA monitor and a 20MB hard drive. I remember how god-like I thought I was when my office splurged to get me a second 20MB hard drive for a mind-numbing total of 40MB. That computer didn't even have a shell, it was DOS commands or nothing.

ok the 286 if it was a standard PC it was probably running @ 16 MHz and not 66 MHz, unless it was some special custom made goverment computer that might be the case. First Intel PC to do 66 MHz without overclocking was 486 DX2 66 MHz. Dos in 87 would be DOS 2.X or 3.X. IN 91 DOS 3.X or 4.X or maybe 5.0
So was the monitor EGA (16 color) or monochrome (1 color)

Superevil · 07-10-2005, 03:50 PM

I remember tinkering with Win3.1 and Qbasic for hours on my old IBM PS/2

darksniper_17 · 07-10-2005, 04:13 PM

windows 3.1

glbbk20 · 07-10-2005, 07:54 PM

Back a few years ago, my dad brought home a computer with windows 95. needless to say i thought it was awesome!

natedizzle · 07-23-2005, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark

The only thing 3.1 was good for was drawing things in paint

I spent hours doing this.

I also messed around with the control panel (was that what it was called back then?) and that's where I learned that I liked to tinker with computers.