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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 12:55 pm 
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Let's see.

native 8086 binaries [os? we don't need no os!]
basic <- 8 bit OS
ibm dos 3.3
ms-dos 5.0
windows 3.10
os/2 2.1
pc-dos 6.1
os/2 3.0
pc-dos 6.3
os/2 4.0
pcdos 7.0
pcdos 2000
windows 98
windows 2000

xp lasted a day or so, when i booted w2k in a vm, it just had to go on.
vista was a joke, win7 doubly so. (i have 2 copies of ultimate, never installed :S )


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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 2:05 pm 
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Oldest machine I have used was Atari and ZX Spectrum+

In the PC world, I used MS-DOS 7.1, Windows 3.11 for Workgroup, Windows 98 on real machines.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 7:53 pm 
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havent gone back that far but the os seems ancient any way, unstable, slow... But alas I owned windows me. Never use this as a main os

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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 8:46 pm 
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Wait a minute, there's already "What was your first OS you ever used?" topic, so why this topic is here?

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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 10:07 pm 
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owned: Windows 3.1
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ahhh! old times... :)


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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 10:15 pm 
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3.1 betas in DOS-box
But actually installed, Windows 98


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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 10:59 pm 
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The oldest MS OS that I own is Windows NT 3.51.
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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 11:04 pm 
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I think my oldest OS I used was Windows 98, on my Nan's computer I can always remember that boot sound. Also my old desktop, I can't remember what OS it was but I'm sure it was one of the Pre-XP ones.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 3:52 am 
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Windows 95 on a pentinum 3 128 ram and 4GB HDD. Good times. oh the joy of upgrading to windows 98. back then. XD

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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 4:30 am 
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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:43 pm 
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My oldest OS is MS-DOS 3.3, with Windows 1.03. I still run em' sometimes on my IBM 5150.


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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 1:15 pm 
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My oldest MS OS was Windows XP :D Now Win7 and Win8 too :)

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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 2:32 pm 
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MS-DOS 3.3 on an old AT-class machine back in elementary school.


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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:03 pm 
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I use ms-dos 3.1, spanish version, in my first IBM PC Clone, (no my first computer). I have yet the disks and manuals.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:12 pm 
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My first (new $999.00) PC was a Tandy 386 1000 RSX (11/10/1992).

It had Windows 3.1 w/ MS DOS 5.0 preinstalled... thats the oldest I've used.


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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 10:27 pm 
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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 10:44 pm 
I used a Tandy 100 for research and I had a Timex Sinclair, but I am not sure that the Tandy used a MS OS. My Tandy 1000 ran under DOS 3. My oldest computer was a kit I got for Christmas when I was an undergraduate, in 1967 I think. It worked by plugging bits of wire into slots.


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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 7:12 am 
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xp lasted a day or so, when i booted w2k in a vm, it just had to go on.
vista was a joke, win7 doubly so. (i have 2 copies of ultimate, never installed :S )


lol was windows 7 a joke xD it is more sold than windows 95 and 98 and xp :P

oldest os on pc, Windows 95 Swedish Edition,

Oldest on wmware windows 1.1 or something :)

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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 7:14 am 
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My first (new $999.00) PC was a Tandy 386 1000 RSX (11/10/1992).

It had Windows 3.1 w/ MS DOS 5.0 preinstalled... thats the oldest I've used.


thats mutch xD even windows 1.0 with new pc costed 99 dollar xD

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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 7:30 am 
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Amstrad 6128+ with Locomotive BASIC OS. I think it was £399 when first released in 1985 but I got it in 1992 or 1993. learned a lot of coding using BASIC. Then it was Win 95 on a huge block of a Packard Bell desktop PC that had a Pentium MMX 9the tower was large). I liked the Packard bell wallpapers it came with (packard bell face)


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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 7:50 am 
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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 4:07 pm 
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I had win 3.1 on PSP :P (98 too) and 95/98 on a PC..

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 PostPost subject: Re: Oldest MS OS you have ever owned/used?        Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 7:52 pm 
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