My Fourth Operating System
Dec 5, 2023 16:59:23 #
DWU2 wrote:
I switched to Mac a few years ago. Wish I'd done it a decade ago DOS commands can still be useful in Windows 10.
Dec 5, 2023 17:04:57 #
tokeefe1554 wrote:
Yeah, I'm old enough that I remember 3.1 and 95. And I'm 72.
Tim
Tim
Same boat...
Dec 5, 2023 17:06:24 #
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.
Yes I'm that old, started with 95, then later messed with 3.1 (But that is a long story)
Dec 5, 2023 17:43:52 #
alschlafli
Loc: Colorado Springs
I didn't see anybody mention CP/M. By a company called Digital Research. IBM approached Digital Research (Gary Kildall) to create an O/S for their "new" PC's, he told them to go fly a kite. So they went to Bill Gates and Co - the rest is history...
I started a small computer business in 1979 that lasted until my "retirement" in 2020. Our first "microcomputers" ran CP/M 1.3, then 1.4, made by a company in S. Carolina called Intertec Data Systems. $3495.00 for for an "all in one" system with 11 inch monochrome monitor, keyboard, twin z-80 processors, 2 - 5 1/4 floppy drives holding 160K, and 32K RAM. When CP/M 1.4 was released, you needed to upgrade to 64K or RAM, for $500.00.
Lots and lots and lots of computers since then.
I started a small computer business in 1979 that lasted until my "retirement" in 2020. Our first "microcomputers" ran CP/M 1.3, then 1.4, made by a company in S. Carolina called Intertec Data Systems. $3495.00 for for an "all in one" system with 11 inch monochrome monitor, keyboard, twin z-80 processors, 2 - 5 1/4 floppy drives holding 160K, and 32K RAM. When CP/M 1.4 was released, you needed to upgrade to 64K or RAM, for $500.00.
Lots and lots and lots of computers since then.
Dec 5, 2023 18:03:22 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Never used Windows 98. The whole time Windows 98 was main stream I used Windows NT 4.0. Windows 95 and Windows 98 are the two OS's that are most difficult to run on a modern PC. More difficult than DOS or Windows 3.1.
"Oh....How old I am?? How old I am??..."
Whatever happened to BASIC ??
* Hic! *
Has anyone seen FORTRAN and my punch cards?
Dec 5, 2023 18:04:39 #
alschlafli wrote:
I didn't see anybody mention CP/M. By a company ca... (show quote)
I did use CPM although not long enough to be good at it. The first was the NEC 8000 if I remember correctly it's based on the 8008 CPU. Next is a Compag Portable which run DOS 3.3 but since we had a program from Siemens that run under CPM 86 so we had to make it dual boot the CPM 86. Once again I wasn't good at it and did have real problem with it.
Dec 5, 2023 18:08:50 #
alschlafli wrote:
I didn't see anybody mention CP/M. By a company ca... (show quote)
I knew of CP/M back then, but never used a computer that ran it
Dec 5, 2023 18:48:39 #
cahale
Loc: San Angelo, TX
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.
My first operating system was DOS on a TRS80. That's also where I wrote my first (of many) software programs.
Dec 5, 2023 18:49:29 #
JoeBiker
Loc: homebase: Houston, TX
I can't remember what the OS on a VAX PDP11 was called. The first computer that I owned was a Commodore PET that was given to me by a company, when I help them replace it with a TRS-80. I don't remember what the replacement OS for the TRS-80 was called, but it wasn't the one that Radio Shack provided. Then, it was Unix with X-windows for a while at work, and Commodore 64 at home, before transitioning to PCs with DOS, freeBSD, Windows, Linux, etc.
Dec 5, 2023 19:13:12 #
JoeBiker wrote:
I can't remember what the OS on a VAX PDP11 was called. The first computer that I owned was a Commodore PET that was given to me by a company, when I help them replace it with a TRS-80. I don't remember what the replacement OS for the TRS-80 was called, but it wasn't the one that Radio Shack provided. Then, it was Unix with X-windows for a while at work, and Commodore 64 at home, before transitioning to PCs with DOS, freeBSD, Windows, Linux, etc.
DEC made the PDP-11, it ran RSX-11.
DEC also made the VAX, a different system, it ran VMS.
Dec 5, 2023 19:30:39 #
Yes I recall all of those
And the 1st pcs with dual floppies (5-1/4 and then 3-1/2). Who remembers wysiwyg with lotus?
And the 1st pcs with dual floppies (5-1/4 and then 3-1/2). Who remembers wysiwyg with lotus?
Dec 5, 2023 19:50:44 #
My first commercial audiobook cassette tutorial was "The Dos Tape."
Later, "What Is Windows [3.1]?, "What is Windows 95?' and "What's a Modem?"
Later, "What Is Windows [3.1]?, "What is Windows 95?' and "What's a Modem?"
Dec 5, 2023 19:53:15 #
jdtonkinson wrote:
Yes I recall all of those
And the 1st pcs with dual floppies (5-1/4 and then 3-1/2). Who remembers wysiwyg with lotus?
And the 1st pcs with dual floppies (5-1/4 and then 3-1/2). Who remembers wysiwyg with lotus?
Version 2.3 of Lotus 123 was the first to have WYSIWYG.
Dec 5, 2023 20:17:03 #
Equus
Loc: Puget Sound
I am with you Linda. But I go back to the LGP30 computer and assembly language on '68 and later IBM 360 and Wang dumb terminals.
Dec 5, 2023 20:46:20 #
Mr. SONY
Loc: LI, NY
FreddB wrote:
PC Dos or IBM Dos?
🤬😱 DAMN! I guess I am old
🤬😱 DAMN! I guess I am old
You ever try DR DOS?
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