Posted on Jul 28, 2015

What's the oldest Windows OS you've used?

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http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/336386/a-visual-history-of-microsoft-windows/1

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Posted 10 y ago

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PO3 Steven Sherrill

Posted 10 y ago

Used basic when I was in High School. We messed with the teacher by setting the screen to black type on a black screen and telling him it was broken. Not polite.

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SSG Daniel Brewster

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lol, reminds me of a gag that we played in high school way back in 1980 or so. The school had some version of the Apple ][ that connected to a big old monster CRT television. They were all mounted on an AV cart so they could move 'em around - the TV made it top-heavy so the TV was strapped onto the cart so it couldn't fall off the cart - but the cart was way out of balance with a really tall center of gravity. Me & another joker took a few coke bottles outside and smashed 'em in paper bags and then came inside and oh so gently laid one of the carts on its side, CRT facing down. And then we sprinkled the busted coke bottles around the cart. And then we hid out and waited for the 60-yr old "technology" teacher to come in and discover it. Man, we laughed our butts off - until she came in and about had a stroke. Funny now. The school principal didn't think it was so funny...

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SSG Derek Scheller

Posted 10 y ago

Can't touch DOS and playing commander keen and Wolfenstein 3D.

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SGT (Join to see)

9 y

I'm lucky I didn't lose eyesight from my Commnder Keen hours.

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SSG Derek Scheller

9 y

SGT (Join to see) - Same here lol, between that and wolfenstein 3D.

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SSG Derek Scheller - Too go off topic, OMF 2097 is my top favorite, though. I never preferred shooter games.

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SSG Derek Scheller

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SGT (Join to see) - I can give you that one.

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SGT Jeremiah B.

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Posted 10 y ago

I've been plugged in from a very early age, so MS-DOS 1.x. I think I started on Windows 2.0, but my earliest solid memory that had a version number attached is 3.1 for Work Groups, because I helped set up an office network using it.

For the age, Windows was pretty revolutionary. What I don't miss is needing to run winsock to open a browser TCP/IP connection.

It's crazy looking at that slideshow. You forget just how much has changed until you're staring at it.

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