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01 Jul 2009, 7:38 pm

For me it was Windows 3.11.



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01 Jul 2009, 8:13 pm

i think 3.11 or the one before that



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01 Jul 2009, 8:15 pm

Windows 95. Mum was a Mac person. Though I did use some sort of MS command line setup, could have been DOS 6.something.


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01 Jul 2009, 8:31 pm

Windows 95.

kip wrote:
Mum was a Mac person.

Good for her! :)


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01 Jul 2009, 8:40 pm

After 3.11 I used Windows 95, then Windows 98, then Windows 2000, then XP and finally Vista (for around two seconds).

Never did try Windows ME out.

My current OS is Windows XP. I'll probably switch to Windows 7 once it comes out since it sounds promising.



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01 Jul 2009, 9:17 pm

Chair wrote:
After 3.11 I used Windows 95, then Windows 98, then Windows 2000, then XP and finally Vista (for around two seconds).

Never did try Windows ME out.

My current OS is Windows XP. I'll probably switch to Windows 7 once it comes out since it sounds promising.


Pretty much what I did but I never used 2k either.


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01 Jul 2009, 9:34 pm

The first computer we had in our house ran good ol' MS-DOS, where I learned to navigate the command line so I could play Number Munchers, Lemmings and Quest for Glory...

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C:\nostalgia.exe



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01 Jul 2009, 9:44 pm

jmr wrote:
The first computer we had in our house ran good ol' MS-DOS, where I learned to navigate the command line so I could play Number Munchers, Lemmings and Quest for Glory...
Code:
C:\nostalgia.exe


I miss Lemmings...

Why is it that every time tech moves forward, we lose something? Even something as simple as a little ghetto game? Emulators always suck, they are never as good as the original.

I'd love to be able to do all the stuff old computers do... damn I'm too nostalgic.


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01 Jul 2009, 9:56 pm

I think 3.xx was my first Windows OS. Ah, the memories... Ski Free (the anticipation of getting mauled by the Yeti was terrible), Captain Keen, and some fighter plane game that I can't remember the name of.



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01 Jul 2009, 9:56 pm

I believe it was dos 2.0 or maybe 2.11. I am pretty sure I missed version 1.0, but I may have used it unknowingly. In those days dos booted from a 5.25" floppy disk. 360k baby! Later they were double sided for a whopping 720K!


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01 Jul 2009, 10:01 pm

Does CP/M (run on Z-80 machines on 8" floppies) count??

If not, it was MS-DOS, can't remember which version, I think 5, but its been 20 years....



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01 Jul 2009, 10:55 pm

What's "Windows?"


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01 Jul 2009, 11:00 pm

Jacaen wrote:
Ski Free (the anticipation of getting mauled by the Yeti was terrible)


Wow.... I forgot all about that game until you mentioned it's name. I've not thought about that game for years.



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02 Jul 2009, 12:44 am

I believe the ROM on my TRS80 was from M$ but I can certainly remember buying a copy of MS DOS 3.2 for £1 to use in my Amstrad 1640 that came with MS DOS 3.0


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02 Jul 2009, 1:27 am

This is a tricky question. Perhaps XP would count as the first real OS Microsoft has released, and I have used it, so that would probably be it. :D I have previously used many lame attempts of an OS they have released, but since the question was about OS:s they would not count, would they?