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nashorn

The oldest OS I've owned was Windows 98 PLUS!
Though VM I've used 3.1

johnye_pt

The oldest OS I used was MS-DOS 6.0 + Win 3.1, I remember setting up DOS to play DOOM on it at a neighbor's computer. I also used DOS at school, Win95/98 was already available at the time, but teachers were old school (thank god for that). Back in the days, we always carried a box of floppies to trade games. Good old ARJ days!

Using old OSes in VM is mostly for nostalgia in my case, so it doesn't count as real use for me.

mycomputerhelp

danooct1 wrote:

Hello everyone, this marks my first post here (so please forgive me if this is the wrong category, as my post is not exclusively about beta versions of MS-DOS or Windows - sorry!).

For myself, the oldest Microsoft operating system that I own and have used is MS-DOS 2.0.

Here's a picture I snapped of the diskette (360k 5.25" floppy, it looks like it used to say 2.12 but someone crossed it out and wrote 2.0 on there. I have no idea why this was done): http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/ ... .16453.JPG

You can check out MS-DOS 2.0 in action through this video I made, where I tested some viruses on it for fun (one of my favorite hobbies and the point of my main YouTube channel):

So how about everyone else? It doesn't matter if it's in a virtual machine, testing purposes or you legitimately used them in a real-life situation, just post about it! Bonus points for pictures of original installation media.

MS-DOS 4.01.
Nowadays I use MS-DOS 7 for my old PC's

Lluixhi

MS-DOS 6.22 (and I'm a teenager)

marcoguy

I have used PC(MS)-DOS 1.0 in a VM and PC-DOS 2.10 on my IBM PC.

Dezzo4

The oldest by far that I have personally used is most likely Windows 95. It was on a Toshiba laptop, which had a bad 20MB RAM expansion card, but when it did work, it could run 98.

smartboyhw

A HP Windows 98 for sure. Our family used it till 2007, changed to a Dell Vista, broke down in 2009, changed to a HP 7, broke down (CPU and circuit board burnt) in 2012, and changed to another 7 HP computer.

salvador2001

Real life, i used to have a intel celeron 800mhz with 98, so old.
VM, i think i once downloaded MSDOS 1.0 and i'm sure i once used CP/M

prayaas1998

salvador2001 wrote:

Real life, i used to have a intel celeron 800mhz with 98, so old.
VM, i think i once downloaded MSDOS 1.0 and i'm sure i once used CP/M

I'm pretty sure it isn't 1.0
That was a mislabel, right?

MegaDragon998

prayaas1998 wrote:

salvador2001 wrote:

Real life, i used to have a intel celeron 800mhz with 98, so old.
VM, i think i once downloaded MSDOS 1.0 and i'm sure i once used CP/M

I'm pretty sure it isn't 1.0
That was a mislabel, right?

It could be PC DOS 1.0 or MS DOS 1.25.

TheThingThatFlies

Probably Windows 98 on a real machine and 3.1 in VirtualBox

brazoai1

MS-DOS 3.2 on Olivetti PC-1. A true beast...

dheadshot

I managed to get hold of a disk image of PC-DOS 1.1, which is technically at least a MicroSoft adaption for IBM, even if it's branded IBM and old enough to be mainly written by SCP, so that's my oldest emulated MS OS. Oldest ran on hardware? Well, that would have to be Windows 3.1/MSDOS 5.0 as a kid (upgraded to Windows for Workgroups 3.11/MSDOS 6.22 fairly early on, but I still experienced the previous installations). We kept our old Win311 machine running as a main PC 'til we got a second-hand Windows '95 machine in about 1997, but the Win311 machine was bought when new! An 80486DX clocked at 33MHz felt really fast back then!

Oldest for Non-MS? Well for hardware rather than emulation it would have to be my Speccy. Emulated? Who knows what the oldest is - possibly the Educ8 Minicomputer?

yem

xp sp2 on real machine

Jbrenn41140

Windows 3.1 on an old wang.

michel3

Windows 98 on real machine. I miss that thing!

imagotam

Windows 95 OEM on real machine.

Kahdragz

Some variant of MSDOS on what probably was a 286 or 386 with WordPerfect for DOS on a blue background.

BigBadZombie

Virtual: Windows 1.01 Physical: Win 98. Don't remember being on the internet then, but I did play games. Still looking for the CD.

iBetaTosh

malakai1911 wrote:

I vaguely recall using some sort of text-mode program manager originally, but I can not recall the name of it (it had a largely blue background, two columns of programs listed).

Direct Access, maybe

Kelton2

Oh wait, my post was wrong, Windows 95 is the first os I ever used not on VM!

hogsy

Windows 95
Then went to Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista and finally Windows 7

Mr. Gentry

Windows 95 on a real machine.

AlphaBeta

I first used Windows 98 on a real machine, but the oldest OS I used on a real machine is Windows 1.04. On a VM, it's Windows Premiere Edition.

starcraft

PC-DOS 1.0 on real win 2.1 on vm

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