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09 Sep 2024, 5:56 am

Thought this was cool. Love Windows 95, 98, ME and XP startup!


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09 Sep 2024, 5:58 am

Also all Mac startups :)


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22 Sep 2024, 7:52 am

First use, silicon graphics for Catia ,first owned Pentium 90, WIN 3.11. Took a lot of setting up, but then worked fine.



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02 Oct 2024, 7:54 am

First computer used, Apple ][ Plus.
First computer owned, Apple //e.
First Intel based computer used, NCR Model 4.
First Intel based computer owned, Dell 325.



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02 Oct 2024, 9:52 am

I'm not sure about the first computer I ever owned, but the first ever used was either an Apple IIe at school or a Burroughs B20 (not sure which model) that my dad would sometimes bring home from work...it had this game on it, Rats, that was equal parts bizarre and amusing.



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02 Oct 2024, 3:31 pm

I was 15, so 1990, i got my first PC.
I already had interest in the Commodore 64, but wasn't allowed to buy one.

We got a Tulip 80286 with 40 MB HDD, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disk, 1 MB memory and a VGA-256 color monitor. And a rectangular mouse.
A beast for that time.

Later, when we also got Windows 2.0 we bought a whopping 2 MB of memory extra.


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24 Oct 2024, 3:24 pm

First one I ever used was an RML 380Z. First one I owned: a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.



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24 Oct 2024, 3:29 pm

MaxE wrote:
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Was there a Windows NT. operating system ? ever??

Yes it was the precursor to our present-day Windows operating system. At first it was marketed to "enterprise" users. Its precursor, in turn, was the VMS operating system.

In parallel, DOS-based versions of Windows were marketed to consumers. The last of these was Windows ME. Then Windows XP came out which was a direct successor to NT, and all later versions descend from that.

The development of NT was very stressful for those involved. The main reason was that Microsoft wanted existing Windows software to run seamlessly on NT, sort of a square peg in a round hole situation. I wonder if that was a good strategy. The problem was that commercial software was so expensive then, and the hardware wasn't powerful enough to adequately support VMs, which is how the situation would be dealt with today. This probably contributed to the bad press Microsoft tended to get in the 90s. A lot of people in the media felt strongly that nobody should compete with Apple in that market, despite that many Windows based systems were better than anything Apple had at the time, except possibly where media production was concerned (an area in which Microsoft never seriously tried to compete).

Ironically Apple took a similar path. The current Apple desktop OS descends from NextStep, an OS few of us ever used, and the OS of the old "Macs" of the 90s and before was retired a long time ago.


I used Next in the 90s. I wrote projects using Apple Yellow Box, which produced binaries which ran on Windows, MacOS and NextStep. The language was Objective-C. Nobody used it at the time, and I put it in a corner of my CV and forgot about it for years, until the first iPhones came out and suddenly my phone started ringing off the hook.



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24 Oct 2024, 5:24 pm

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I used Next in the 90s. I wrote projects using Apple Yellow Box, which produced binaries which ran on Windows, MacOS and NextStep. The language was Objective-C. Nobody used it at the time, and I put it in a corner of my CV and forgot about it for years, until the first iPhones came out and suddenly my phone started ringing off the hook.


Ha ha. I remember Next computers.

I began with the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer. It was a very big deal that the computer output color graphics to a television set. That was a big feature. It booted into COCO BASIC, which also had an operating system embedded in it. So, I learned programming right away as a teenager.


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24 Oct 2024, 11:25 pm

When I was 9 or 10, parents bought us four kids a SpectraVideo "computer" to play games on. It had a chicklet keyboard and a red and black joystick. No mouse. The games took forever to load on the tv and each game was a cassette. Moon Landing and Armoured Assault are two games I remember.



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25 Oct 2024, 1:07 am

First computers I used were old IBM units of unknown model, with no local storage, and games were played off of 5.25 disks - things like Odell lake, Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, Summer / Winter games. (school)

After that, some assorted Mac Classic, II-LC, etc, mostly used to play Diamonds or text-based adventure games and basic computer lab lessons. (school)

Then an Intel 486 DX/2 66mhz, a Pentium II 266mhz, an AMD K-6 500 mhz. (home, family machines)

My personal first machine was also an AMD K-6 500, followed by an AMD Athlon XP 2200 w/ GeForce 4 MX440 64mb

First self-built machine was AMD Athlon XP 2600 / ABIT NF7-S V2 board / 1gb RAM / Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb

Followed by:

-AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 / ABIT AN-8 Fatal1ty Edition board / 2gb RAM / GeForce 7800 GT 256mb

-AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400 / 4gb RAM / GeForce 8800 GTS 320mb

-Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 / XFX 750 nForce4 board / 8gb RAM / GeForce 9800 GTX 512mb x2 in SLi

-Intel i5 4690 / MSI Z97S Krait Edition board, 8gb RAM / GTX 1050 Ti 4gb

-Intel i9 11900K / MSI MAG Z490 board / 64gb RAM / RTX 3070 Ti 8gb (current)



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25 Oct 2024, 9:33 am

JamesW wrote:
MaxE wrote:
Jakki wrote:
Was there a Windows NT. operating system ? ever??

Yes it was the precursor to our present-day Windows operating system. At first it was marketed to "enterprise" users. Its precursor, in turn, was the VMS operating system.

In parallel, DOS-based versions of Windows were marketed to consumers. The last of these was Windows ME. Then Windows XP came out which was a direct successor to NT, and all later versions descend from that.

The development of NT was very stressful for those involved. The main reason was that Microsoft wanted existing Windows software to run seamlessly on NT, sort of a square peg in a round hole situation. I wonder if that was a good strategy. The problem was that commercial software was so expensive then, and the hardware wasn't powerful enough to adequately support VMs, which is how the situation would be dealt with today. This probably contributed to the bad press Microsoft tended to get in the 90s. A lot of people in the media felt strongly that nobody should compete with Apple in that market, despite that many Windows based systems were better than anything Apple had at the time, except possibly where media production was concerned (an area in which Microsoft never seriously tried to compete).

Ironically Apple took a similar path. The current Apple desktop OS descends from NextStep, an OS few of us ever used, and the OS of the old "Macs" of the 90s and before was retired a long time ago.


I used Next in the 90s. I wrote projects using Apple Yellow Box, which produced binaries which ran on Windows, MacOS and NextStep. The language was Objective-C. Nobody used it at the time, and I put it in a corner of my CV and forgot about it for years, until the first iPhones came out and suddenly my phone started ringing off the hook.


Yaay..for for programming abilities :ninja: that makes ones programs popular :D :D :mrgreen: Quite impressive !
And thank you for your direct response to my question. :D .


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31 Oct 2024, 6:10 pm

An Atari 800XL. I used to love playing mountain king on it.

Then a big gap and a windows 98 PC in 2004.


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02 Nov 2024, 11:51 am

Am I the only one who detests Win 11? I really don't want these eternal unasked for pop-ups, making my decisions for me. I was happiest with Win 98 along with Partition Magic (does Win 11 even allow for partitioning?) which I coud set up to work the way I wanterd to. I'm aware people are inclined to want to stick with their first practical experience, and our evolution tends to be slow, but here I am, 30 years later, and if anybody produced a web compatible OS that looks and feels like 98, I'd buy it!



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02 Nov 2024, 1:54 pm

gwynfryn wrote:
Am I the only one who detests Win 11? I really don't want these eternal unasked for pop-ups, making my decisions for me. I was happiest with Win 98 along with Partition Magic (does Win 11 even allow for partitioning?) which I coud set up to work the way I wanterd to. I'm aware people are inclined to want to stick with their first practical experience, and our evolution tends to be slow, but here I am, 30 years later, and if anybody produced a web compatible OS that looks and feels like 98, I'd buy it!



Agrees...! emphatically 8O ...to make things more difficult to operate does not engender,extra interest after past the age of 20 ..imho ..unless it is a perseveration ..imho


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08 Nov 2024, 1:13 am

arjen37 wrote:
I was 15, so 1990, i got my first PC.
I already had interest in the Commodore 64, but wasn't allowed to buy one.
We got a Tulip 80286 with 40 MB HDD, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disk, 1 MB memory and a VGA-256 color monitor. And a rectangular mouse.
A beast for that time.

Later, when we also got Windows 2.0 we bought a whopping 2 MB of memory extra.



I had a Commodore 64, I LOVED IT, I had it when I my was a teenager, I did schoolwork & play games on it, my fave game was Frogger.