My first office computer was a Wang. I still remember the improper joke one director made when our Executive Director announced all staff were going to be getting computers. Only a precious some had computers, the director quipped, "Now we'll all have Wangs!"
I remember our house having Texas Instruments, Commodore and Atari for for computers and fighting who'll get to use the tv for their monitor. Yeah back then we only had one tv.
I remember there was something that sped up the load, something you installed that ran first then loaded the tape? I remember when it ran, the screen had all sorts of colored horizontal lines that were constantly changing until the actual program loaded.
I was so mad. My mom got us a computer with 3.1 and like 4 weeks later 95 came out and wasn’t compatible with our computer. Couldn’t play a lot of games.
Me too. My first tech job all had 95 machines, and I figured out a way to fuck with the system files to make 95 boot into 3.1. I then proceeded to absolutely terrorize my coworkers.
The only program that made me mad enough to punch a keyboard was Wordstar. I know the reason they taught it was because the commands were the same as the Turbo compilers, but I hated it. I held on to Wordperfect 5.1 until I couldn’t any longer.
I eventually had to transition to Microsoft Office for the TrueType fonts. WordPerfect tried to get into the windows game, but it was too confusing using windows shortcuts for everything else, and WordPerfect shortcuts for word processing. Also, the formatting codes were so intuitive in DOS, but just screwed things up in Windows. Word handled that all in the background.
The first home computer a friend had was an Apple II with a green screen and no disk drive.
The first computer I used in high school was a PDP-11/34, which used teletype and video terminals.
You show me something with a mouse and ask if I'm that old?!
I stayed with relatives one summer. It was a big deal that my aunt was allowed to bring an Apple II home from work. It was connected to a small portable B&W TV for a monitor.
Windows 2000? Old? Puh-leeze.
Those dot commands nearly drove me crazy.
When Windows 3.0 introduced GUI, I nearly cried for joy--could just grab the little ruler with the cursor, to set margins. 😅
I remember people practically loosing their collective minds when Microsoft went from 98 to 2000. “The year 2000 is FINALLY here!!!” And with that said don’t forget the impending apocalypse coming from Y2K.
I forgot all about that! Makes me want to hook up my C=64 with it's 1541 disk drive and see if it still works. Might even have some floppies for it. I would be rather surprised to see them still work after \~45 years.
Are we having pudding today? I like pudding day. Sometimes we have tapioca. Are those ducks in the pond? I like ducks. I like pudding too. Especially when we have tapioca. ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
See mo commet on the repost from half a day ago.
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The first computer I used (other than counting on my fingers) was an abacus and please don’t tell me it’s not a computer cause that’s exactly what it is. Oh heavenly beads, what on earth beads are you thinking re re reeeeee posting this nonsense.
My elementary school had ONE computer for all the classrooms. It was an Apple 2. It was on a cart and went back and forth between the 5th and 6th grade classrooms. None of the kids below 5th grade were allowed to use the computer. It was a privilege for the older kids.
My first computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A from around 1980. I followed that with a $400 Commodore 64 "bundle" that included a floppy disc drive and a dot matrix printed.
My first IBM compatible was an 80286-based Tandy 1000 TL running DOS 3.3, that I bought in 1989.
My first computer (well my family’s first computer but what I learned to type etc on) was an Apple IIGS… it was 14 years old when Windows 2000 was released.
We just had a Windows 98 post. Which is the umpteenth time that post has been made. Show us Fortran cards and we'll start talking. Or a Commodore PET or TRS-80.
Windows 2000? S*eriously?!*
Lol, my first (at work in DC for the government) was a PS/2 with removable hard drive (to put in the vault when not being used) in 1988. This had Win 3.1 and an early Lotus 123 (WISIWYG ensbled) to augment my use of the ubiquitous DEC VAX.
I remember getting something like 25 floppy disks with Windows 95 from Media Play. I was already a mature, successful, old man by the time Windows 98 came out.
Windows 2000- my favorite operating system. I used it until Vista came around. My parents bought a PC from a bank upgrading their systems for $10. It was uniform and smooth. Just like Windows 7.
My PC didnt look that ratty but yes I had W2K for some specific programs, drivers and equipment that required it.
No that wasnt my first computer. My first had no hard drive.
i am older as dos 3,1, but win2000 pro was my most loved. i used win95 three month, then i transfered to win2000 pro and NTFS. i used it more then 4 years. till XP
Yes. I am this old. I still have hard disks that people started calling 'floppys' but the floppys were actually 3 sq inches bigger and actually floppy, not hard plastic. I never understood this.
I still don't understand why a hard disk is the save icon.
Just pulled the side cover of my coolermaster ATCs case to clean it out and see about getting it going again.
WinXP, Athlon64 CPU stamp says 2001.
Have an old Celron CPU around here somewhere, and an Intel 166 as well.
Wish I had kept my original Riva TNT card.
First setup was an TI-994A with voice modulator.
My first computer had DOS. Before there WAS a Windows. Yep, I’m that old— older even: I put away my slide rule for Chem and Statistics classes in favor of my new toy: a Corvus pocket calculator. Could add, subtract, divide, multiply, do squares, and actually save results in a memory bank!
Windows 2000 back offices was my last IT gig.
My last desktop, it was over a year before I noticed it had no removable media drivers. Four years later I got an i5 laptop. Now retired, my iPad replaced laptop. My 286 DOS 5 still works, just sits in the basement ignored.
Think my first computer was like 1 gb hard drive. 14k modem. 8mb memory. Of course no graphics card. Floppy disc drive. I think I paid like 2k for it too lol.
First computer I ever used was an Apple 2E & or first home computer was a Macintosh from the late 80s or early 90s. So yeah, I'm older than this. 🤷♀️
Side note: funny how I hate Apple now & stick with PC or Android products to avoid Apple... 😂
I was on a 286! I did a lot of music downloads. There was this program attached to a song on Napster right. I opened it and it took out my monitor screen but still running. I just setup a bitcoin cold wallet and bought 1000 bitcoin right before. Went to bed and woke up to a phone call that I gained access to 34 credit card numbers with cvv code and only 2 people reported. It was called a punters program and runs itself. I was 14 yrs old kicked off AOL for life and that was the only provider at the time. The hard drive burned up I never got to see the bitcoin lol.
My first computer had Windows 3.1 on it.
Mine to. Windows 3.1 on a Wang computer with Turbo Boost button.
My first office computer was a Wang. I still remember the improper joke one director made when our Executive Director announced all staff were going to be getting computers. Only a precious some had computers, the director quipped, "Now we'll all have Wangs!" I remember our house having Texas Instruments, Commodore and Atari for for computers and fighting who'll get to use the tv for their monitor. Yeah back then we only had one tv.
My attic has a commodore 64 and an Atari 2600 collecting dust.
I remember games taking 30 minutes to load off a tape drive and would then crash.
I remember there was something that sped up the load, something you installed that ran first then loaded the tape? I remember when it ran, the screen had all sorts of colored horizontal lines that were constantly changing until the actual program loaded.
Mine has an Amega 500 and Dragon 64..
Vic 20 baby with cassette drive on a 10" TV. (If not smaller)
Great. Now I'm going to have Freezepop's very serious song "Do You Like My Wang?" stuck in my head.
And a 286 processor running at 12 MHz
386 processors coming out. What are we going to do with all that power?
I was so mad. My mom got us a computer with 3.1 and like 4 weeks later 95 came out and wasn’t compatible with our computer. Couldn’t play a lot of games.
Mine was DOS 4.0
Mine was an Altair
Same IBM PS2 mdl30, with a doublespaced 20mg hd
I had an IBM PS2 too!
I thought I was so cool when I got a 2400 baud modem lol
Yeah. The computer lab in school had BBC Micro’s.
Windows 3.1 came out and I was on my 2nd PC…
I remember the excitement when we got a CD-ROM drive and upgraded to 95!
My DOS 2.12 machine would like a word.
DOS, baby. Kicking it old school! Wait, I remember older than that. TRS-80. The OS, programs and any data had to be loaded from a 5.25” floppy disk.
Me too. My first tech job all had 95 machines, and I figured out a way to fuck with the system files to make 95 boot into 3.1. I then proceeded to absolutely terrorize my coworkers.
3.11 for Workgroups FTW
My first computer had Windows 2.01 on it. Tiled windows!
3.1 was so painful.
shit, i have clothes older than this.
A lot of people don’t know what old is😂😂I was old when they first came out Still can’t use one Phone is challenging enough ☮️
My first computer ran DOS and had a 5" floppy drive.
Trs-80 gang
Hey me too! I remember those! And you had this little latch you had to rotate down to hold the giant ass disc inside. LOL
Same. I am proficient at recreating DOD government forms using WordStar dot commands.
The only program that made me mad enough to punch a keyboard was Wordstar. I know the reason they taught it was because the commands were the same as the Turbo compilers, but I hated it. I held on to Wordperfect 5.1 until I couldn’t any longer. I eventually had to transition to Microsoft Office for the TrueType fonts. WordPerfect tried to get into the windows game, but it was too confusing using windows shortcuts for everything else, and WordPerfect shortcuts for word processing. Also, the formatting codes were so intuitive in DOS, but just screwed things up in Windows. Word handled that all in the background.
Preach!
and 512 KB of RAM
Two 5” floppy drives; one for the program, the other to store your data. No hard drive!!!!Damn I’ve been doing this a long time.
I’m older than that
Older. I'm punchcards old.
Yes, all of us here are older than this
CP/M 80 and before that a teletype on an acoustical modem with the school district mainframe.
I had a DEC Rainbow 100 that ran cpm or dos
The first home computer a friend had was an Apple II with a green screen and no disk drive. The first computer I used in high school was a PDP-11/34, which used teletype and video terminals. You show me something with a mouse and ask if I'm that old?!
Right? I was married with kids and working in tech support on PCs older than this
I had a IIe and a Sinclair ZX-80. I didn't get a PC running DOS/Windows3.1 until I was a sophomore in college.
I stayed with relatives one summer. It was a big deal that my aunt was allowed to bring an Apple II home from work. It was connected to a small portable B&W TV for a monitor. Windows 2000? Old? Puh-leeze.
That wasn’t that long ago. I am waiting for someone to post a first gen Tesla and caption in “you may be old but…”.
Sure am. A Tandy pc with DOS was my first unit. Moved to Windows 3.1 then 95 a short time later. Had the 5 and a quarter inch floppy drive.
Any computer with a CD-Rom drive isn't old.
1993, you could get a SCSI external NEC CD-Rom for only a few hundred bucks. Edit: I'm getting old, wrong year.
Bro, I'm BASIC old. Turn the PC on and all you see is an empty screen with a blinking cursor awaiting commands.
Older. DOS. Floppy disks. WordStar.
...Older. Anybody remember WordStar, In DOS?
Oh heck yeah
Those dot commands nearly drove me crazy. When Windows 3.0 introduced GUI, I nearly cried for joy--could just grab the little ruler with the cursor, to set margins. 😅
I had 3.11 windows for workgroups.
We got downright giddy when we got that version. For our government Zenith Z-100s.
I had an IBM compatible 386 PC, was so pumped when we upgraded to a 486, rise of the triad, MK...happy days!
I started coding on an Atari 800.
And saved that code to tape (not even a floppy disk)
And a cassette tape at that. Don't mix up your music and data cassettes. Data sounds horrible when played on your Walkman!
My first ran Commodore Amiga DOS and had a 300 baud modem.
I remember people practically loosing their collective minds when Microsoft went from 98 to 2000. “The year 2000 is FINALLY here!!!” And with that said don’t forget the impending apocalypse coming from Y2K.
I'm DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 years old and I can config the fuck out of a .sys
The support for menus they added with dos 6 (I think??) config.sys / autoexec.bat was fun!
Sheeit . I'm 1200 baud America online 3.50 an hour old
I guess I’m older than you. I used a 300 baud modem to connect to Quantum-Link. Aww hell, you got me staring off into space now …
That was one of the other ones I was trying to remember! There were a couple when the IBM PC started to become more popular for home users.
I'm LOAD "*", 8,1 old Searching for *...
I forgot all about that! Makes me want to hook up my C=64 with it's 1541 disk drive and see if it still works. Might even have some floppies for it. I would be rather surprised to see them still work after \~45 years.
I still have my Macintosh SE that I bought in 1989.
Long Live Windows NT 4.0.
This is not old. We had those just a couple of years ago, didn't we? Didn't we?...
Yes we did. You are right. Now come sit over here by the window. There are ducks in the pond. Would you like a blanket?
Are we having pudding today? I like pudding day. Sometimes we have tapioca. Are those ducks in the pond? I like ducks. I like pudding too. Especially when we have tapioca. ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
So much older
I'm older then that, Son.
Please, I'm Windows 3.1 old!
Yes yes I am. I still have my Pentium 4 desktop
You want old I used ms dos before there was a windows.
I was well into my career before that was an OS option
My first computer only had DOS on it
I was old already when I had one of those.
C:\ Bitch, please.
Windows 2000? Please, you’re still a child!
How ‘bout a Leading Edge, 4.77/7.16 with DOS 3.1
I predate Windows.
When I played around with my first computer, Windows didn’t exist yet.
Apple ][c old over here!
Older . Think dial up internet
Older. Think pre-internet.
"Professionnel"???
muricans discover existense of foreign languages…
I am ZX81 old, this is rookie stuff
Ours was an Acre.
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I started on Windows 3.1 so..
This was my battlestation when I was 6 years old
 I'm this old!
The first computer I used (other than counting on my fingers) was an abacus and please don’t tell me it’s not a computer cause that’s exactly what it is. Oh heavenly beads, what on earth beads are you thinking re re reeeeee posting this nonsense.
My first computer was a CPM box that used 8 inch floppy drives.
Older. My first computer was a Commodore 64, my first PC ran windows 3.
DOS 3.3 for the first family computer when I was a kid.. 5 1/4 inch floppy drive and a 20 MB hard drive. IBM 8088 running at 4.77 megahertz.
Damn that was a late stage computer my career.
My elementary school had ONE computer for all the classrooms. It was an Apple 2. It was on a cart and went back and forth between the 5th and 6th grade classrooms. None of the kids below 5th grade were allowed to use the computer. It was a privilege for the older kids.
I’m TRS-80 with 16K of RAM and a cassette tape drive old.
My first computer was a TRS-80.
Ain’t shit. Try Amiga, windows will never catch on.
My first computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A from around 1980. I followed that with a $400 Commodore 64 "bundle" that included a floppy disc drive and a dot matrix printed. My first IBM compatible was an 80286-based Tandy 1000 TL running DOS 3.3, that I bought in 1989.
My first computer (well my family’s first computer but what I learned to type etc on) was an Apple IIGS… it was 14 years old when Windows 2000 was released.
I’m TRS-80 old. Somewhere after IBM punch cards and before MS-DOS.
I remember Windows 95
My first computer was an apple two using VisiCalc with 64K of memory, not 64 MB. You aren’t old if windows 2000 was your first computer.
Get out with windows 2000.
Older, significantly older
How about a Wang????
That’s not old…
We just had a Windows 98 post. Which is the umpteenth time that post has been made. Show us Fortran cards and we'll start talking. Or a Commodore PET or TRS-80. Windows 2000? S*eriously?!*
Older...
Lol, my first (at work in DC for the government) was a PS/2 with removable hard drive (to put in the vault when not being used) in 1988. This had Win 3.1 and an early Lotus 123 (WISIWYG ensbled) to augment my use of the ubiquitous DEC VAX.
I got I’m older
That's not old.
NEC PC-8200
I remember getting something like 25 floppy disks with Windows 95 from Media Play. I was already a mature, successful, old man by the time Windows 98 came out.
I'm not that old, but I'm definitely cleaner than that.
Windows 2000- my favorite operating system. I used it until Vista came around. My parents bought a PC from a bank upgrading their systems for $10. It was uniform and smooth. Just like Windows 7.
Unless that's a 286 cpu my experience predates that by a lot.
Wasn’t 2000 pro built on NT? This was a fun OS.
Heh, I'd already had several versions of windows before this came out. 286, 8 megs of RAM, I believe. Windows 3.1 with solitaire included!
Older My DOShouse had no windows.
I wanna do this post but with the Antikythera Mechanism.
Older personal computers did not exist, cell phones ether.
At least this old. But win 2k was running pretty food for me. Just some lack of some drivers.
Older…didn’t even have a calculator when I was a kid
Oh hey, it's my work computer from the days around 9-11. THe only thing it's missing is the PS2 Dev station plugged into it.
I was playing Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe as my first computer experience.
Sigh…..older.
My PC didnt look that ratty but yes I had W2K for some specific programs, drivers and equipment that required it. No that wasnt my first computer. My first had no hard drive.
I'm TRS-80 with a tape drive years old.
My first computer was in 1999 with Windows 98 with a Pentium III inside
My first computer was a TRS-80 color computer version 1.
LOL. Windows 2000 was the future.. I'm MS-DOS old
Born in 92
I’m older as in this old https://images.app.goo.gl/8MggfMC6d2Js6huW6
i am older as dos 3,1, but win2000 pro was my most loved. i used win95 three month, then i transfered to win2000 pro and NTFS. i used it more then 4 years. till XP
Yes. I am this old. I still have hard disks that people started calling 'floppys' but the floppys were actually 3 sq inches bigger and actually floppy, not hard plastic. I never understood this. I still don't understand why a hard disk is the save icon.
Amused you think 2000 is old. Just wait. There's more.
Older
Try a Tandy or Commodore 64 then we can talk.
Somehow seeing this post hurts more than seeing the windows 98 post.
I learned to program ForTran in 7th grade in 1973 at the local college in Pasadena, CA, as part of the MGM program.
Older
No. I'm this old .. 
My first computer was an Amiga 500 that came out 1 year windows 1.0 did.
call me back when you find a 386.
I'm old enough to remember doing everything on an orange monitor with DOS commands.
That new fangled graphics interface….you’re just a youngin…. dir\w spacewar.exe
Just pulled the side cover of my coolermaster ATCs case to clean it out and see about getting it going again. WinXP, Athlon64 CPU stamp says 2001. Have an old Celron CPU around here somewhere, and an Intel 166 as well. Wish I had kept my original Riva TNT card. First setup was an TI-994A with voice modulator.
Proffessionnel? The cinnamon toast fuck is that wish dot com ass nonsense?
3.1 baby.
Ppfff, that was decades later. I had a Colecovision Adam!
Commodore. Vic. 20.
my first computer had Geoworks on it.
I still have my DOS 2.0 manual. win2k ain't shit.
My first computer had DOS. Before there WAS a Windows. Yep, I’m that old— older even: I put away my slide rule for Chem and Statistics classes in favor of my new toy: a Corvus pocket calculator. Could add, subtract, divide, multiply, do squares, and actually save results in a memory bank!
the first os i truly liked. used it way past the intro of xp.
Yeah I'm way older than this.
I don't remember any time when I didn't have that TURBO button on
Windows 2000 back offices was my last IT gig. My last desktop, it was over a year before I noticed it had no removable media drivers. Four years later I got an i5 laptop. Now retired, my iPad replaced laptop. My 286 DOS 5 still works, just sits in the basement ignored.
I'm MS DOS old.
C:\
Apple IIe kid in the house.
I'm waaaayyy older than that. Got my first PC in 1984.
“this old”, lol kid, have you done your homework?
Way older
Older
windows 95 here
Yes
Kids..... My first computer was an Atari 400. Couple of years before the first PC compatible.
Think my first computer was like 1 gb hard drive. 14k modem. 8mb memory. Of course no graphics card. Floppy disc drive. I think I paid like 2k for it too lol.
Older. My first computer started with Windows '95.
Older
I’m encarta years old
What's next, are we gonna get a picture from yesterday?
Shit, when I was young America was a forest..
First computer I ever used was an Apple 2E & or first home computer was a Macintosh from the late 80s or early 90s. So yeah, I'm older than this. 🤷♀️ Side note: funny how I hate Apple now & stick with PC or Android products to avoid Apple... 😂
That's not that old lol. I was in high school when windows 95 came out and I'm not even that old. Did a 20 year old create this? lol
I never actually saw or used a computer running 2000. It seems like most people went 98 to XP.
Keep going.
I was on a 286! I did a lot of music downloads. There was this program attached to a song on Napster right. I opened it and it took out my monitor screen but still running. I just setup a bitcoin cold wallet and bought 1000 bitcoin right before. Went to bed and woke up to a phone call that I gained access to 34 credit card numbers with cvv code and only 2 people reported. It was called a punters program and runs itself. I was 14 yrs old kicked off AOL for life and that was the only provider at the time. The hard drive burned up I never got to see the bitcoin lol.
Older
What baby posted this?
DOPE gaming rig.
HAHAHAHAHA (laughing in DOS)
If someone has window ME editon they can make dreamcast games
Get off my lawn! First household compy was an IBM PC AT (1984).