what's the first operating system you remember using?
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what's the first operating system you remember using?
>>709645355
Old school Mac. I remember Oregon trail, I remember playing some weird connect the dot game but circus themed. Dont know what the OS was called.
windows 3.1 playing doom and shit
>>709645447
i wish i could remember the name of that dot game
>>709645355
Windows 3.1
>>709645683
Fuck bro I just started googling and ran into more. Find Carmen San Diego, Word Munchers, Mavis Beacon
95
DOS, booted from a 5.25" floppy
windows xp
>>709646180
uea that's some old shit
>>709646326
underage b&
>>709646326
are you 13? fag
>>709646428
not b8 but k
>>709645355
PEMDAS
>>709645355
Disk Operating System.
>>709645355
Whatever flavor of DOS ran on the Sanyo MBC-550 series.
Unless you count the on-ROM BASIC of the ZX-81.
>>709645355
apple dos
>>709645355
windows 98
>>709645355
My first computer was a Sinclair Spectrum 48ko in the mid 80's with Basic ...then played with some amstrad and commodore 64 before the apple 2c .. Atari 1040st in the 90's ... first MacIntosh then my PC with windows 95 was mid 90's..
>>709646552
sensiblechuckle.jpg
>>709645447
If it wasn't black and white, it wasn't truly ancient.
>>709645355
dos 6.2 and mac os 6.0.2
>>709646552
mah niggga
dos
A://
>>709646610
2c. Remember Amiga? How about Neo Geo when it was a home system?
>>709646586
>BASIC of the ZX-81.
I remember that. ..
>>709646610
damn, how'd you get in to pcs?
>>709646658
Green and white if im not mistaken. I remember the color macs came out almost right afterwards
C:/DOS
C:/DOS/RUN
RUN/DOS/RUN
>>709646666
nice quads
>>709646945
Yup. Remember disk swapping? Holy frustration.
>>709645355
I had this thing called GEOS for my Commodore 64. For those of you that had a C-64, you remember it booted in basic. it wasn't quite as bad as an apple booting in DOS, but pretty close. Anyway they made this GEOS thing. Pretty cool.
>commodores were on the cutting edge. Color screen. Color printer. graphic operating system.
>>709646814
>Remember Amiga
Sure... Big rivality between atari and amiga. ..
>>709645355
Windows XP because i live in a poor ass country and only got a computer at age 17.
I used to play a shitload of those little cartridge games (not on a nintendo or other console,family too poor,just some 20$ handhelds with 1$ cartridges,piss poor games).
I didn't play any games on the computer itself until WAY later,though. First game was Warcraft 3,given to me by a classmate through CD,played the fuck outta that game,he had so many custom maps. I must have spent 2000+ hours on Warcraft 3 alone.
>>709647075
things haven't changed in 30 years
Computers felt like something mythical in those days. We had a 2c with a mini monitor in my classroom(grade school). Comp science was Basic coding and learning about Fortran and Cobol.
>>709647135
what do you use now? where are you from?
>>709647258
>fortran
>4chan
>wew
>>709647054
>disk swapping
Disk?? Whe had tapes... 5 1/4 disk came longtime after
>>709647054
Yeah haha, Man good times
Apple DOS 3.3 on an Apple IIe
>>709647131
Yup. But outside of gaming, Amiga never caught in. Like Neo Geo. $500 for the system, $100 a cartridge (around the time of Turbo Graphics 16).
>>709647363
any pics?
>>709647363
My Parents had punch cards in stacks. We win. Said if you got a card out of place you were screwed.
>>709647466
Amiga has one of the best 16 bit painting software at that time ... Ataris with his standard midi connection was always big in the music industry
Mac OSX 10.4
I've converted now
>>709647711
nice dub dubs but wat
some IBM os on a school compy
Win 95 on first home PC
>>709647639
As outdated as that tech is now, it was huge by comparison to its predecessors. Micro computers that weighed hundreds of pounds. I removed when my Dad brought home a hand set modem with the cups. Thought it was so
High tech.
>>709645447
>I remember playing some weird connect the dot game but circus themed
>>709645683
>i wish i could remember the name of that dot game
I believe you mean Rocky's Boots. (pic related)
You're welcome.
>>709645447
This.
The Mac for Oregon trail back in the late 90's. I went to a public school so yeah.. talk about underfunded.
>>709647808
Remember. Or even much later dial up where you screwed it up by picking up the phone.
>>709645355
Windows XP.
It was the shit man.
>>709647866
if only the days lasted
DOS.
Played some sweet games on it too. Wish I could remember what they vere called.
Anyone recognize a game from that era where the main character had a goofy helmet with antannae(?)
my memory is a bit fuzzy because I'm old but it took place on a space station or some shit.
>>709647543
it was standard music tapes...
>>709648037
commander keen?
>>709645355
Solaris
windows 95
>>709645355
Times New Roman
>>709647881
woot OT --more text than graphics; millennials likely couldn't stand the game
RIP your family.
>>709648087
Alien8 was one of my favorite games at that time .. 1985
>>709648103
oh fuck! that's it!
thanks anon! I'm going on a serious nostalgia binge
>>709648005
gawd my sides, best pepe i've seen for awhile
DEC PDP-8
12-bit operating system with front panel entry for boot and punch card / paper tape for input output.
Wrote my first COBOL programs on that beauty.
>>709648212
>Newfags not using Times Old Roman
BYZANTII EUNT DOMUS
>>709648284
np anon played that game when i was 5 and somehow remember it
>>709648324
thx bb
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>>709648087
Love the Speccy.
I worked for Vortex in Manchester during the early 1980's and did the background animations for things like Alien Highway and Highway Encounter with Mark Haigh-Hutchinson.
>>709648495
Punch card seems pretty infuriating.
>>709648324
>>709648689
>Punch card seems pretty infuriating.
You certainly didn't want to drop the box of cards.
>>709645355
95.
>>709648738
I can imagine. How many cards in a stack, typically?
>>709648738
can you explain how this works? and how it became such sjw bullshit 30 years later?
BASIC 1.0 on my Amstrad CPC464 back around 1984 or so.
Fucking staring at a green monitor for 20 mins for Harrier Attack to load.
>Block 01
>Block 02
>>709647075
pretty bad-ass that this existed in 1986
>>709648868
This is stacks of punch cards used to form math equations. Cards with punches or perforations that when placed in order, feed the machine a series of commands. Stacks of cards.
>>709648677
>I worked for Vortex
wow.. i remember the vortex games...
>>709648932
glad to see a lot of oldfags come out. this is a good thread
>>709649129
Apparently if you dropped your stack, you started over. And it took awhile to get the cards in order and fed in. Im going on what I was told about it.
>>709648838
>>709648868
You wrote the code out by hand on coding sheets (like grid paper with line numbers) and then handed it to a room of women who transcribed the coding sheets onto punchcards using something like a mechanical typewriter.
You got about 20 instructions per card, so to have a COBOL program of 200 cards or more was not unusual, especially as a lot of the stuff was mandatory.
You then fed the cards into an actual computer for compilation which took between 20-minutes and an hour and would get back a printout of all the compilation errors, then you had to redo the punched cards to reflect any errors
...rinse and repeat...
Writing a decent programme typically took 2 to 4 weeks this way and the money was exceptional.
>>709648932
>Harrier Attack
yesssss.......
>>709645355
>>709646666
>>709647033
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>>709647466
>>709647711
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>>709647866
>>709648499
>>709648677
>>709648955
>>709649251
>Apparently if you dropped your stack, you started over. And it took awhile to get the cards in order and fed in. Im going on what I was told about it.
No. They had electro-mechanical machines called sorting and collation machines (IBM naturally) that could resort them, but it took time and had to be booked in with a member of the operations team.
>>709648677
>and did the background animations
still in the videogame insustrie?
>>709649152
>wow.. i remember the vortex games...
Sad to say that Mark Haigh-Hutchinson died of pancreatic cancer some years ago.
Wonderful guy he was, fantastic programmer as well. Knew how to streamline the shit out of games to get them to run fast and smooth on the Speccy.
>>709649405
>>709649585
>still in the videogame insustrie?
Nope. Video games are for the young. I'm a consultant project manager nowadays.
>>709649657
ow did you end up here?
>>709649268
Thank you for clearing that up. That's a process.
>>709649411
>No. They had electro-mechanical machines called sorting and collation machines (IBM naturally) that could resort them, but it took time and had to be booked in with a member of the operations team.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_card_sorter
This sort of thing...
>>709649856
humans are pretty cool
>>709645355
Either Windows 98 or one of the old school Macintosh systems.
>>709649799
>ow did you end up here?
4Chan can be fun when your not acting like retards.
>>709649411
It's fascinating. IBM was huge. A family member was an accountant there in Silicon Valley, mid 80's.
>>709649908
>humans are pretty cool
Sometimes. A lot of the stuff I'm talking about is pretty antiquated, but it brought us the computers and mobile phones we have today which is cool.
>>709650006
afraid you'll be bitten?
>>709650006
agreed and thanks for the most wholesome image i saved from /b/
>>709650007
>It's fascinating. IBM was huge. A family member was an accountant there in Silicon Valley, mid 80's.
I never liked the IBM guys, they always saw themselves as better than everybody else.
The microcomputer revolution really fucked them even though they were one of the main reasons for it in the first place.
Pirates of Silicon Valley is pretty accurate in that regard.
>>709650101
yeah, though there is something to be said for the programmers of the 80's. they had to have a vision that nobody before them had
It's amazing how much has moved into being possible at home. All of these things led to what we have access too. Without these people forging the path in the first place we wouldn't be here. Code that's only been rewritten if that. It can be traced to big business, all of our advances.
>>709645355
BASIC. and checked.
>>709650155
not him
>>709650285
And the military of course. The biggest business.
>>709650285
>It's amazing how much has moved into being possible at home. All of these things led to what we have access too. Without these people forging the path in the first place we wouldn't be here. Code that's only been rewritten if that. It can be traced to big business, all of our advances.
True that. When I started back in the 1980's about 80% of all the code ever written was in COBOL, which was why I was taught it at college (between grammar school and university)
Most valuable training I ever received. Pretty useless now though of course.
>>709650215
They were like the Edison of the Computer industry. Get out of the way or get crushed.
>>709645355
win95 on pentium 150 with 1 gig elsa winner grphic card 3-4 years b4 mmx and 3d acceleration.
>>709645355
Install Gentoo.
>>709645355
Apple II
>>709650568
>They were like the Edison of the Computer industry. Get out of the way or get crushed.
Yes, but they failed to move with the times. Customers demanded smaller, more efficient units but the IBM mentality was very mainframe centric.
Took the near collapse of the company to change that.
>>709645 Not Your mom
It took years for my Family to afford a hard drive, mainly because 80mbs was upwards of a grand, and Macs were one color with a tiny screen, we had the dual drive SE. It wasn't the most cutting edge, but it was a lot more expensive.
please keep thread bumped have to run out for a little bit. enjoying the stories here.
>>709650707
Reminds me of Blackberry. They focus on the wrong things.
>>709651029
facts
>>709645355
DOS 6.22
C64, bruh
Windows XP
>>709651324
b&
>>709651093
Like coming out with the same smart phone as other companies but saying it's all about the encryption. It may be to some, but it's not a strong selling point. Focusing on things that only very specific markets will respond to. IBM did it and they collapsed.
>>709651365
"facts" is i agree in nigger
>>709645355
Win95
Born in 91
TRSDOS - junk on a trs-80
Windows 10...
>>709651029
>Reminds me of Blackberry. They focus on the wrong things.
They were very strong for a long time (as were Nokia), especially in banking and finance.
Then along came the Iphone and Android and neither Blackberry nor Nokia could keep up.
The great thing about capitalism is that companies that don't keep up get chewed up and spat out.
All markets care about is "What have you done for me lately". RIM and Nokia learned that the hard way.
>>709645355
Pic related
>>709645355
dos
*,8,1
>>709651420
Sorry.
Macintosh Plus Yeeeeeeah
TRS-DOS
not kidding.
>>709645355
windows 98
when pressing ctrl alt del twice still rebooted
>>709651707
You know that Buzz Aldrin carried out a masonic ritual between landing Apollo 11 on the moon and the lunar excursion.
It was passed off as a Catholic mass by ground control.
They met on the level, but parted on the square.
DOS 5.0 FTW
Its funny because as tech oriented as I am, things like Facebook and Twitch leave a bad taste in my mouth. It feels less like a good thing, and more like it's pointing out that familiarity breeds contempt.
>>709652282
>Facebook and Twitch
They're shit man, they only cause troubles.
I closed my facebook because there's always a stupid bitch making a lewd comment so your gf gets hysterical.
Without facebook life is 400% more easy, believe me.
>>709645355
DOS 4.0
>>709652477
Agreed. Digital echo chamber 2k.
>>709645355
dos 2.0
VAX mainframe at university circa 1980
They taught us BASIC first.
Yep, oldfag here.
>>709645355
I guess DOS - I have a few scattered memories of my mom teaching me how to use it, but I really remember Windows 95.
I was so fucking jealous when my friend got Windows 98. Hah
Windows 2000
I 'member starting games in the command line of my dads 386 so it's probably DOS.
Real usage would be win 3.1 on a gifted toshiba laptop with a trackball and 480x320 display. It was in color though.
98 if i remember correctly. Or ME, they were pretty simmilar.
newfag haven
>>709646850
ZX-81 was my first computer.
2nd was the TS2068, the 'murrican suped-up version of the ZX Spectrum.
I learned programming on that bad boy. Wish I still had it. My mom donated it to my school. I'm sure they threw it away. :-/
Windows 95 or 98 not quite sure, me and my sister played backpacker 2. That game still gives me thd nostalgic feels.
4chan
Pornhub search bar
Yahoo!
>commodore c64
used it to play monty on the run (my first game), shit was cash
Drhe abbuccsi at mie mhay gerpe meetingles
>I'm a star
>sometimes daddy's friends put crayons up my butt and then draw a patterns on mine faces with their magic crayons
>us do wonder whay they smell salty and and a and their pink and have a special hose on them to wash me down with urinite
>then I loose my special powers for another
>>709645355
Basic on my BBC Microcomputer in 1986.
I remember using a normal looking computer at school (not the first one I ever used) in 95 or 96 that wasn't running windows or dos and it wasn't a mac. It kinda looked like an ugly version of windows but had no games. Could it have been red hat? or something else? It may have been the school system admins pc
>>709645355
IBM System/360
You are ALL fucking children
Windows ME
Windows 2000 to play virtua cop.
>>709645355
temple os
Some kind of Dos. I remember playing Reader Rabbit on it.
We didn't upgrade until windows 95 came out.
>>709645355
DOS 5.0
Windows XP
My family was pretty poor, so we didn't get a computer until later on in my life
I existed before all known operating systems.
>>709646552
thats deep
>>709661645
Same here, pal.
>>709646552
BEDMAS
Hi
>>709645355
Windows 98
