What was the first OS you ever used?

[stevefoerster]

The very first one would have been the Atari 8-bit system running on my dad's Atari 400.

I was there, Gandalf....

 

[Tayvl]

GEM OS on my Amstrad, 1988. Actually had color...

 

[onebignerd]

Exposed to Unix on mainframes through dumb terminals before PCs existed. The first PC was an Apple II from where my Dad worked, then I bought an original Macintosh. Than moved to a Intel 386 running DOS and on. Tried returning to Mac last year, don't care for it anymore.

 

[Mtyson8]

My Friends 1995 Packard Bell Legend 822CDT. Win 95, Pentium 100MHz 16MB RAM, 1.2GB HD. We were talking serious power.
First Game? Mech Warrior 2
I remember the graphics didn't get any better than this, especially the intro movie

 

[wizardB]

Somewhere around 1973, I started programming with Fortran, long before the two shysters Gates and Jobs sold their less-than-spectacular OSes to the world.

 

[Tyler Dur Den]

Apple DOS 3.3, circa 1980.

 

[Gezzer]

DOS XL, which came with my Indus GT drive I used with my Atari 800. It was menu-driven, but did have a command line interface.

The first PC OS I used was OS/2 Warp 4 when we got computers (not just mainframe terminals) at work. My first post-Atari home PC had Windows 98.

Wow, another 800 user! I had the first edition of the 800 (Looked more like a toy than a computer IMHO), so I guess that was kinda my very first OS. My Mom had a 486 running Windows 3.1 that I fooled around with. But my first PC was a 166mhz Pentium MMX running Windows 95 OSR 2 so I did more than boot games and do a bit of messing with the DOS. Windows 95, was a step up in the OS user experience, but I swear I spent as much time trying to keep it stable than I did playing games. The idea of editing Bats and Pifs still gives me a shudder. 98 was the first OS that I didn't have to do that as much. XP was the first really stable and user friendly OS M$ put out IMHO.

 

[John Staerck]

1965 - ICL (International Computers Limited, now owned by Fujitsu) Model 1904E running GEORGE3.
Missed getting my hands on a Ferranti Pegasus by a few months when the 1904E replaced it.
First personal computer was an Apple IIE.

 

[wiyosaya]

HP-25C programmable calculator followed by Sinclair ZX-80.