My Fourth Operating System
Dec 6, 2023 11:01:32 #
DWU2 wrote:
DOS commands can still be useful in Windows 10.
I started with DOS, but wouldn’t remember how to use it now.
Dec 6, 2023 11:10:50 #
BBurns wrote:
There are a bunch of us out here that will know this one.
And there will be some younger up-starts who are clueless.
And there will be some younger up-starts who are clueless.
Started with earlier Apple then progressed to IBM basic and Dos.
Dec 6, 2023 11:21:15 #
Started with a Mac Plus square box with a small built-in screen that I still have, along with several other older models of Apple computers, to include the one in the translucent cover that came in several different colors. Guess I'm just a Mac-addict!
Dec 6, 2023 11:26:43 #
BBurns wrote:
There are a bunch of us out here that will know this one.
And there will be some younger up-starts who are clueless.
And there will be some younger up-starts who are clueless.
Apple DOS 3.3
Apple ProDos 1.1
Microsoft DOS 3.0
Apple Mac OS 5
Microsoft Windows 3.0/DOS 6
I did some work in college in Fortran 77 that ran on an NCR Century 100 from punch cards, but I don't count that. That computer sucked sewage. The Apple IIe was the first computer that made sense to me. We used it to write scripts, program multi-image slide shows, and do AV department budgets and proposals.
Photo circa 1986…
Dec 6, 2023 11:43:03 #
Stephan G wrote:
"Oh....How old I am?? How old I am??..."
Whatever happened to BASIC ??
* Hic! *
Has anyone seen FORTRAN and my punch cards?
Whatever happened to BASIC ??
* Hic! *
Has anyone seen FORTRAN and my punch cards?
Sure. Started with IBM in 1964/65 on the 360 system
Dec 6, 2023 12:05:08 #
Dikdik wrote:
Do you remember Visicalc?
Boy, that's an oldie!!!!
Dec 6, 2023 12:28:13 #
Dikdik wrote:
Do you remember Visicalc?
I dumped Multiplan for Lotus 1-2-3, then Quattro Pro, until Excel took over the world. Actually, I kind of liked QP, but don’t remember why. All except Excel ran under MS-DOS.
Dec 6, 2023 12:31:01 #
47greyfox wrote:
I dumped Multiplan for Lotus 1-2-3, then Quattro Pro, until Excel took over the world. Actually, I kind of liked QP, but don’t remember why. All except Excel ran under MS-DOS.
I remember those two also.
Guess I'm old.
Dec 6, 2023 12:44:00 #
Longshadow wrote:
I remember those two also.
Guess I'm old.
Guess I'm old.
That makes, at minimum, two of us. 🤔🥴
Dec 6, 2023 12:45:49 #
df61743
Loc: Corpus Christi, TX
TriX wrote:
Sure. Started with IBM in 1964/65 on the 360 system
Me too. If I recall correctly, that is a 360 model 30. It had up to 64K of core storage LOL
I serviced 360 models 30, 40, and 44, and all the peripherals in your picture. Later I serviced various model 370's, 4331, 4341. Then I switched from hardware to software as a PSR. The last 20 years I spent with IBM in marketing as a systems engineer specializing in DOS/VSE and VM operating systems. The last application programs I focused on were SQL relational database, CADAM, and CATIA.
Retired after 30 years Sept 1966.
Dick
Dec 6, 2023 12:52:56 #
df61743 wrote:
Retired after 30 years Sept 1966.
Dick
Dick
Dick, using my math, 30 yrs before ‘66 would’ve been 1936. Assuming you were, at least, 18 yrs old when you started, that would put your birthday sometime around 1918. You may be running away as the “oldest” UHH visitor at 105 yrs young!. Well done! 😳🤓🥳
Dec 6, 2023 12:59:56 #
TriX wrote:
Sure. Started with IBM in 1964/65 on the 360 system
Great photo of the system! When people think of computers from the 1960s, this is iconic.
Dec 6, 2023 13:01:17 #
burkphoto wrote:
Great photo of the system! When people think of computers from the 1960s, this is iconic.
👍👍 Absolutely!
Dec 6, 2023 13:08:30 #
When PC's came out, I programmed in DOS for several years, using Clarion, C and assembler.
Dec 6, 2023 13:10:35 #
I used MS Dos but also OS/2 which was my favorite PC OS until I could no longer find customers to run our software on that platform.
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