What was the first version of Windows you ran?

[merlin]

sinclair ZX81 with all that typing into a tape recorder, just to play tennis with a bat at each end and a ball , but what fun and high technology !! for the time

[wecpcs]

I started at a 286, then 386sx, 386, 486 etc. Seperate, optional, maths co-processors you could plug in. Those were the days.

I started with an Atari PC3 which was an 8086 CPU with a 32Mb HDD and 5.25" floppies running DOS and the predecessor to Windows, which I have totally forgotten what it was called, but is was WYSIWYG.

Colin

[bobleslie]

I used to prefer DR-DOS with the GEM based GUI rather than the MS-DOS versions.

[Glenn]

No one has mentioned IBM OS/2 yet, where MS made a GUI based OS for IBM the pinched the ideas and created Windows

[Rik]

Sinclair Basic on the ZX81 , Commodore V2 basic on the C64 then windows 3.1 and I also still have the disks and the DOS ones.   Oh what happy days

BBC BASIC, Bob, then straight into DOS, but can't for the life of me remember the version number. Floppies on the Beeb were 5.25" and held 160k of data.  

[Rik]

I used to prefer DR-DOS with the GEM based GUI rather than the MS-DOS versions.

That's the one.

[Rik]

No one has mentioned IBM OS/2 yet, where MS made a GUI based OS for IBM the pinched the ideas and created Windows

Did anyone ever use it? 

[gizmo71]

Did anyone ever use it?  

I played around a bit with OS/2. Never used it for anything serious.

Windows/386 was the first version I used. WfWG 3.11 was the first useful one and Windows 2000 was the first reliable one.

First GUI I used was GEM on an Atari ST. Later I was involved in MiNT, the multitasking replacement for TOS (the underlying OS - hence Mint is Not TOS) which I think eventually got used in the later 680x0 Atari machines.

First OS I used was on the Oric 1 and I don't think the OS itself had a name.

I still have some IBM PC-DOS floppies at home.

[kinmel]

Did anyone ever use it?  

I bought a P60 that came with both OS2 Warp and Windows 3.11 pre-installed on it, to change from one to the other you had to make BIOS changes to IRQs during boot-up.

We bought Windows 95 for that machine on the day it was released.  

First O.S. I used was Sinclair Basic for the Z80 and over time AmigaDOS, PCDos, Dragon Basic, BBC Basic, Atari.  All the versions of Windows from 3.0 onward,  we even ran Millennium on one PC for a while.

Various Linux flavours, mostly Ubuntu since that appeared and now Linspire on the netbook.

The Dragon, Spectrum, Amiga 1200 and BBC are in the attic and there are a lot of Floppies and CDs with old O.S.s on them up there too.

[Rik]

Aren't we a bunch of hoarders.

[bobleslie]

Did anyone ever use it? 

I was one of the first in the UK to get a full retail copy of OS/2 2.0 32-bit. At the time, it was a sensational OS amongst it's 16-bit counterparts. The trickiest part was installing it and then keeping it up. 

I moved on to Windows NT.

[Rik]

I'd forgotten how long it took to move from 16 to 32 bit, Bob. Makes you realise that universal 64 bit might take a while...

[bobleslie]

I'm not holding my breath...

[Rik]

Quite right, blue is just not your colour.

[bobleslie]

Actually, it's my favourite colour, but not on my face. 

[Rik]

Oh wode is me.

[bobleslie]

Not quite my shade.  Too violent.

I quite like Wedgwode.

[Rik]

Alright me old china.

[bobleslie]

You know, we do write some rubbish here. Do you think anyone's noticed? 

[Glenn]

It's like the Spectrum 128 I had, no one made software for it, only the 64, so buying the extra 64kb of memory was a waste of money.

[Rik]

You know, we do write some rubbish here. Do you think anyone's noticed? 

Impossible.

[Gary]

The first version of Windows I ran was the one I broke with a ball as a kid, I ran from that very fast 

[Glenn]

Maybe the question should be, how did you pay for your first windows

[Rik]

Hard cash.

[Simon]

£200, but it came with a second hand computer.