What was the first computer that you owned that ran on a Microsoft operating system?

[Random Variable]

I had a 20 MHz 386SX that ran DOS 5.0.

Before that I was a Commodore fanatic.

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

8086 IBM PC, DOS 2.0. I think that was the version that introduced subdirectories.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Dell P2 300 running Win95

 

[SaltBoy]

Dos 1.0 babeee! Edlin 0wnZ j00!

My dad got one of the first IBM PC's. It came with a green monochrome monitor and two floppy drives. He later added a 10 meg hard drive for $2000! :Q

/edit Before that, we were proud owners of an Apple II+
Ahhh... I miss the days of CATALOG and BRUN!

 

[BoberFett]

Zeos 486 DX2/50. Mac SE prior to that.

 

[thebestMAX]

Epson 286

Before that I had an Atari 800.

 

[Kevin]

IBM 386 with Windows 3.0 and later I believe 3.11 for Workgroups. Can't forget the dot-matrix printer...

 

[DonaldC]

I didn't get a desktop until Win98 was out. IBM 350MHz, 8.4 gig, 64 meg.

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw
8086 IBM PC, DOS 2.0. I think that was the version that introduced subdirectories.

me too.

First Windows machine was an AT&T Globalyst 60 (pentium 60 with 8 megs of ram)

 

[Quixfire]

Sager Laptop, 400 Celeron, Windows 98se.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

8086, DOS 2.1 (IIRC) ... later the massive 1337 upgrade to DOS3.3
It had a 5 1/4" and a 10MB HD. Whopping.

- M4H

 

[theknight571]

If DOS counts...it was a Leading Edge 8086 (I believe). I remember it running DOS 3.something

If you're referring to Windows then it was a Compaq 486 w/ Windows 3.1

Before the Leading Edge, I had a Kaypro II (well actually it was my dad's) that ran a version of CP/M.

Between the Leading Edge and the Compaq I used a Mac SE/30, which got me through High School and most of College, I did end up spending time in the computer labs when whatever complier we were using wouldn't work with the PC emulator on the Mac.

- TK

 

[nord1899]

286 of some sort. Don't remember what version of DOS was running on it. This was back in 87 or 89, can't remember.

 

[0roo0roo]

286(unknown mhz) from dads company, think they were tossing it out anyways so i got it

20MB hd! omg

 

[Mavrick007]

1990 386 sx16 1meg ram, 130meg hd, MS dos 4.01.. but I used my friend's Tandy with the dual 5.25" drives using MS dos disks way back in early 80's.

 

[Vic]

IIRC (this was like 16-17 years ago), my first MS PC was a Tandy 1000 with an 8088, 128KB, a 5-1/4" and 3-1/2" floppy, no hard drive and MS-DOS 2.x
Been a long, long time so I can't recall quite all the details. I do remember that you booted from floppy and that I didn't like it as much as the AppleII that I had had before it because MS-DOS was pretty stripped of features back then compared to Apple-DOS.

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: ipwnj00
microsoft pwn joo

nef?

 

[kt]

286 AT/12mhz upgraded to 1Mb of memory, 40mb Seagate HD, 16 color EGA video card & EGA monitor. Running DOS 3.1.

 

[C'DaleRider]

Epson 8088, upgraded al the way to DOS 6.22 on that machine.

 

[murphy55d]

AST Adventure, AMD K-5 150, ran Win95.

 

[manly]

A Wang PC with a 4.77 MHz 8088 CPU (I think). Probably 360K dual-floppy with 128 KB RAM (maybe more in add-on card).

The thing was big and ugly, and not even IBM PC compatible. It ran an OEM'd version of MS DOS if I'm not mistaken.

 

[sandorski]

8mhz 8088, 640k ram, dual 360k 5.25" floppies, Trident vidcard, Amber TTL Monochrome monitor, DOS 3.x!

 

[datalink7]

486 66mhz. Ran DOS on it (bunch of different versions) and I think early versions of windows. Changed over to this from a Apple IIe.

 

[fluxquantum]

p2 350 with windows 98.

 

[wfbberzerker]

this one