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What was the first OS you've ever used?

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JOSS using a TTY with an acoustic coupler modem in 1965-1966 (my 6th grade math class). I never knew what JOSS stood for, so I just looked it up; it's "Johnniac Open Shop System". It was sort of an ancestor of BASIC and used scientific notation to display numbers.

If one typed "TYPE 1234" on the TTY, the response was "1.234^3" though the caret symbol was an "up-arrow", a character found on TTY keyboards but not on ASCII or EBCDIC keyboards that I know of.
 
Comodore Vic20->Comodore64->Comodore128->Hiatus (Sports and girls) ->Win3.11

I don't count the old Atari an OS as I never saw a command prompt.
 
Briefly Windows 3.1 and soon after Windows 95' the buggiest of them all. My adulthood was determined by this factor. 😀
 
whatever apples os was about 5-10 years ago lol, my first computer....then i moved over to windows and have been stuck here ever since...will venture into linux as soon as windows x64 has better driver support and i dont need winxp(32) anymore
 
Ran college's IBM system 360 in about 1970. Programs were ran & compiled using IBM punch cards. I am not sure what language this might have been - probably COBOL.

Anyone remember using the old IBM 029 punch card sorters ? Boy, then those things hit a jam, did you have a mess to try to straighten out. Man, have we come a long ways baby !!!

 
Originally posted by: ShaneDOTM
Whatever was on the Apple IIe
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I remember using that in elementary school.
I also remember windows 3.11 with some proprietary hewlet packard garbage on it.
 
Originally posted by: jkyle
GEM/TOS on the Atari 520st.... Wow that was a long time ago...
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Dude, I was in an Atari ST user group back in middle school.

That machine played some wicked games too; Populous, Dungeon Master, Falcon flight sim, International Karate....I had dozens of them. And that thing put my NES to shame. The Genesis gave it a pretty good run though, once the Nineties rolled around.

Good times.

In college, everyone says their first computer was either a Commodore64, an Amiga or a Apple IIC. I'm like, "I had an AtariST". Everyone laughs at that, but they don't even know what it is. They don't even know.
If they realized it was running a 16-bit Motorola 68000 chip with 1meg of RAM, they wouldn't be laughing so hard.

Atari ST kicked ass.
 
Originally posted by: golgotha
Originally posted by: jkyle
GEM/TOS on the Atari 520st.... Wow that was a long time ago...
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Dude, I was in an Atari ST user group back in middle school.

That machine played some wicked games too; Populous, Dungeon Master, Falcon flight sim, International Karate....I had dozens of them. And that thing put my NES to shame. The Genesis gave it a pretty good run though, once the Nineties rolled around.

Good times.

In college, everyone says their first computer was either a Commodore64, an Amiga or a Apple IIC. I'm like, "I had an AtariST". Everyone laughs at that, but they don't even know what it is. They don't even know.
If they realized it was running a 16-bit Motorola 68000 chip with 1meg of RAM, they wouldn't be laughing so hard.

Atari ST kicked ass.
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LOL
 
Originally posted by: wpshooter
Anyone remember using the old IBM 029 punch card sorters ? Boy, then those things hit a jam, did you have a mess to try to straighten out. Man, have we come a long ways baby !!!
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The IBM 029 was a key punch machine - I used one to learn FORTRAN. I knew how to program the drums but my university had removed them from their machines.

In an earlier job as a office/shiping clerk (circa 1972), I occasionally ran cards through a card sorter though I usually had small decks to sort and I only remember it jamming on me once - I just collected the cards from the hoppers and load stack and resorted. (I watched others use the machine with larger decks and have it jam on them). Even learned the rudiments of programming the sorter's plug board though I could not do it again today - I don't even remember what model number the sorter was!
 
Apple IIc and whatever junk came on those 5.25 floppies.

First OS on an x86 was dos 5.0 with Win3.1. Good old trusty 486 DX33 with a mind boggling 4 MBs of ram and state of the art 170MB HD.
 
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