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  1. Posts : 31,238
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #41

    I did do some work on the Server version

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  2. Posts : 4,161
    Windows 7 Pro-x64
       #42

    No abacus but I worked after school for a major paper manufacturing company in the accounts receivable department. I used a Comptometer. This thing was like an abacus 2.0. I had to run a balance tape of sales transactions for the previous day. Some would be just a piece of paper with some hen-scratching. The Comptometer is like an adding machine but there was a key (1-9) for each position up to 999,999,999.99 and a pull handle. I worked from 2pm-5pm M-F and the tape would be about 30-40 feet long. Man, I hated that job but it paid many expenses and I got a referral after graduating. My first job out of school was a programmer with a top local CPA firm.

    I can't even remember all the OSs I've used. Pick any mainframe OS in use from about 1972 to 1995 and any micro/mini/PC OS from about 1976 to present and I've used it.
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  3. Posts : 415
    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 32-bit; Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (VM).
       #43

    Here's what I currently have in Virtual-Box. There are others on their own machines, and
    others still that aren't installed anywhere at present.

    As I said, I'm a bit of an OS nut/collector..


    Wenda.
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  4. Posts : 6,292
    Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
       #44

    Britton30 said:
    Out of all of you (other) old guys, I'm shocked no one has mentioned Abacus 1.0.

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    Actually, if we are counting everything we can't forget this bad boy:

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  5. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #45

    Ohhh.....the ******* slide-rule
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  6. Posts : 31,238
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #46

    TVeblen said:
    Britton30 said:
    Out of all of you (other) old guys, I'm shocked no one has mentioned Abacus 1.0.

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    Actually, if we are counting everything we can't forget this bad boy:

    What's your First O.S to now list-slide-1.jpg
    Never forget my first day at College, all the others brought out their calculator, and I produced my trusty SlipStick, got some strange looks I must admit Happy memories
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  7. Posts : 415
    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 32-bit; Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (VM).
       #47

    I have one somewhere, but haven't used it since my High-School days back in the 1970s, probably forgotten how...

    Wenda.
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  8. Posts : 3,724
    Windows 10x64 Build 1709
       #48

    Well, I guess the first computer I ever used was my brain (plus fingers and toes ).

    As far as O.S.'s go this is as close as I can get: 98, then 95, Millenium, xp, Fedora, Vista, Red Hat, 7, Zorin. You can throw 8 in there after 7 and before Zorin if you like, I tried the Beta, I guess it was and it hasn't been on my machine since.
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    Windows 10 64 bit
       #49

    I forgot to add IBM OS/2 to my list. It was comparable to Windows 3 but was a better version that IBM developed during the period they were at "war" with Microsoft. We had it at work and had it installed on IBM PS/2's (I had racks of the PS/2's for Token Ring "Bridges") and had it an a 486 CPU machine for IBM's Lan Network Manager.
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    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #50

    OS/2 was originally a Joint development project of Microsoft and IBM, until MS pulled out and IBM carried on alone, A version is still available although IBM stopped support many years ago :)

    OS/2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    We used it as it had a full protected 16 bit mode, the only easily available OS to do so at the time and It ran certain industrial applications very well :)
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