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post #1 of 22
11/20/05 at 7:32pm
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Probably showing just what an old fart I am, but was wondering how many here got their start with a GUI like I did on the old no-suffix windows (you know, pre 3.0) when it was just "windows" and came on 3 1//2" floppies and didn't really have any functionality. But then since I go back to the old IBM series one and punch cards, I guess that was pretty cutting edge at the time. Just curious.
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post #2 of 22
11/20/05 at 8:05pm
The first GUI like OS I remember is pretty rare. It was OS9 for the tandy color computer.
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post #3 of 22
11/20/05 at 8:11pm
first GUI windows OS i used was 3.1

had to run most of the programs through DOS anyway...
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post #4 of 22
11/20/05 at 8:20pm
First GUI I used was Apple with OS 7.0.1. Then Win 3.1... Using DOS when I was 3 though....
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post #5 of 22
11/20/05 at 8:23pm
i remember i was liek 3-4 ish and my dad had Windows 3.1

Btw..I still have the diskettes to windows 3.1 and MSDOS 5.0

I figured out how to install it.

I first find an old computer...P3 laptop that we have..Format it with with the win98 floppy, and then put in the Dos Diskettes and install dos on it.

After which i installed Win3.1 and LOW AND BEOHOLD! It also recognizes the CD rom Drive when i install it with a special floppy.

My dad said it was an old 386 machine, with like a 12 inch CRT and it had a 5.25 drive with one 3.5 floppy drive as well. It was 4 megs of ram, and him and my uncled **DOUBLED IT** to 8 megs LOL. The entire thing cost him over 2K

THe disks that i have are all legal and they have their COA...I also have an unopend Win95 CD as well. If i rmemeber correctly, the Dos is a set of 3 disks and windows 3.1 is a set of 8-9 disks..i cant remember correctly

But yeah, i have it installed and running on that one laptop...I luved those old days of PC computing, even though i was 3-4 ish...so sentimental lol
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post #6 of 22
11/20/05 at 9:55pm
my first GUI OS was Win95, even though I used 3.1 at a later date.

Since then i used: Mac System 7, OS 9, OS X, Win98, WinME, WinXP Home, WinXP Pro, WinXP Pro x64, WinCE, Longhorn Beta, PC-BSD, and about a billion linux distros. Oh the days past....
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post #7 of 22
11/20/05 at 9:55pm
I got my start on the Commodore Vic-20.... progressed to Apple II, then when I first joined the Air Force we were using IBM 26 Card Punch machines. Truely antique machinery, but very effective.
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post #8 of 22
11/20/05 at 10:01pm
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Originally Posted by mb67
I got my start on the Commodore Vic-20.... progressed to Apple II, then when I first joined the Air Force we were using IBM 26 Card Punch machines. Truely antique machinery, but very effective.
we programmed the Apple II in middle school! (I think) I remember the little "turtle" ah, memories...
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post #9 of 22
11/20/05 at 10:06pm
I remember "Turtle" very well, vector line drawing based on fed in equations IIRC, would be the third grade for me. First GUI however would be "GEOS" for the C64, first mouse as well.
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post #10 of 22
11/21/05 at 3:15pm
First OS I used was Mac System 7 - that was my first computer too, a Colour Classic with an 80 mb hard drive, since then I've used DOS, Win 3.1 (which incidentally sucked), win 95, win 98 at school, win ME on my old Dell Laptop (which sucked too - I seemed to be reinstalling it every two months or something), win 2000 on the home server, and Win XP. I've also played with Vista (which is currently too unstable to use as a main OS - it also goes funky with iTunes for some bizzare reason), use OSX at school and have played with several *nix flavours (mostly KDE or Gnome based GUI's)

System 7 was the most stable of the lot though. Crashed like once in two years.
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post #11 of 22
11/21/05 at 3:23pm
I tried installing Windows 1.0 on my Virtual PC a year or so back. Wasn't a good experience.

Getting DOS 3.3 installed took forever - actually, finding the bootable disk images on the archive servers took forever.

Then trying to get 1.0 going was fun too. Gave up after 30 minutes of wrestling with getting all the files copied over.
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post #12 of 22
11/24/05 at 11:12am
Revenent, do you remember the name of the MS unix from the 70's? or at least I think it was from the 70's, it might've been the 80's. When I worked in San Diego we were still using it in 1999. I remember once we had a problem with it and needed the OS, but the people we called at MS had never heard of it before..
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post #13 of 22
11/24/05 at 2:28pm
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Originally Posted by dman22
Revenent, do you remember the name of the MS unix from the 70's? or at least I think it was from the 70's, it might've been the 80's. When I worked in San Diego we were still using it in 1999. I remember once we had a problem with it and needed the OS, but the people we called at MS had never heard of it before..
heheh... that's why I always recommend a three decades warranty worth of tech support...
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post #14 of 22
11/24/05 at 4:32pm
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Originally Posted by dman22
Revenent, do you remember the name of the MS unix from the 70's? or at least I think it was from the 70's, it might've been the 80's. When I worked in San Diego we were still using it in 1999. I remember once we had a problem with it and needed the OS, but the people we called at MS had never heard of it before..
If you're not yanking my chain...

No, sorry, my MS OS history didn't really start until post CP/M.
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post #15 of 22
11/24/05 at 7:16pm
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Originally Posted by dman22
Revenent, do you remember the name of the MS unix from the 70's? or at least I think it was from the 70's, it might've been the 80's. When I worked in San Diego we were still using it in 1999. I remember once we had a problem with it and needed the OS, but the people we called at MS had never heard of it before..
MS released a version of Xenix in the early 80's.

First GUI I ever saw was on an Apple Lisa in 1983. The machine was about $10K, I think.

Some of you old farts might want to check this out. The 30th anniversy of the Homebrew Computer Club. Lee Felsenstein was there. He designed the first commercial portable computer (Osborne 1). He's using a Dell Inspiron 9300 now.

http://www.digibarn.com/history/05-V...w30/index.html
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post #16 of 22
11/24/05 at 7:48pm
I learned to play Frogger on the commadore... you don't remember Frogger!? Blasted.
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post #17 of 22
11/25/05 at 12:07pm
Yes, Xenix was its name, or at least I'm pretty sure that was its name.. I just remember having to type very strange commands to get it to do what we wanted, but once you had the commands memorized you could fly through it. it was a really basic system.
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post #18 of 22
11/28/05 at 7:49pm
what about 3.0? oh and who here is a microsoft bob fan?? you know the dog in the search in XP is straight from windows bob. it was taken off shelves a day after it was released and 95 was released instead.
see the resemblence?
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post #19 of 22
11/28/05 at 9:25pm
Ahh - good ol' Bob.

I still remember the massive trackball "mouse" they had to go along with Bob.
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post #20 of 22
11/29/05 at 12:08am
lol good stuff. what a funny operating system
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