What's the oldest operating system you currently use? (desktops, Ubuntu, XP)

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Well having enough ram is always a plus!!

And its FAR FROM DEAD!! (Many still use and love 98/98se)

No, its dead. I think I've seen maybe 2 Win9x machines in the last year. I don't know anyone who loved it.

[Thomas_Thumb]

Not sure if anyone can beat a UNIVAC.
The oldest OS I have running is Apple DOS 3.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

No, its dead. I think I've seen maybe 2 Win9x machines in the last year. I don't know anyone who loved it.

Well you met someone who does

I love Win98se with a passion!!

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Well you met someone who does

I love Win98se with a passion!!

Do you also enjoy walking barefoot on broken glass and the sound of finger nails on a chalkboard?

[Ultrarunner]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Well you met someone who does

I love Win98se with a passion!!

I like reliability... never single problem with Apple//e and Windows 98...

28 years and 12 years respectively... what's not to like?

[Dude111]

I have used an APPLEIIe since my school days!!

You have a 2e?

That cant connect to the net right? (Or can it?? I dont know much about the earlier APPLEs as far as that goes)

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Do you also enjoy walking barefoot on broken glass and the sound of finger nails on a chalkboard?

Not at all bud!!

[Ultrarunner]

Originally Posted by Dude111

I have used an APPLEIIe since my school days!!

You have a 2e?

That cant connect to the net right? (Or can it?? I dont know much about the earlier APPLEs as far as that goes)

It's got a 300 baud modem that would get me into message boards... and the Wall Street Journal... it's been years since I tried.

A couple of times a year I need to pull up an old Apple Writer File...

[Dude111]

I had my Commodore 64 running w/no problems on a 2400 Baud modem!! (EVEN THOUGH THEY SAID @ THE STORE 2400 WOULDNT WORK ON C64)

I have read you can get C64 to goto 9600 baud! (NO FILE TRANSFER THOUGH @ THAT SPEED (CPU cant keep up))


I wonder if an Apple 2E can do 2400?

[SLippi]

At work on the server side we still have a few legacy companies that use NT 4, can't wait for those to go away. At home the oldest is Vista, despite being considered a horrible OS it suits my needs perfectly. Never crashed, no problems but I do prefer 7 so may upgrade pretty soon.

My uncle had a 98 desktop that whenever he needed help I dreaded it. Luckily he finally upgraded and got a new desktop w/7 and loves it. Everytime he put a DVD in the 98 desktop the resolution would kick back to 640 x 480 VGA mode and needed to be fixed plus a number of other stupid issues that we are both glad are gone.

[bs13690]

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