What was your first OS?

In college I worked in the reference dept. of the library. Eventually I ended up in the basement using the computer and the internet to share info. It was kept at 58 deg F. The mainframe took up a huge space. I would sit at a U shaped desk with four or five monochrome (amber or green) monitors and several keyboards - no mouse. There were several two cupped receivers with telephone handsets stuck in them. Most of the time I was sending agricultural info to India and the Philippines. After working with it for a while I would send and receive short personal notes from foreign students to their families through friends that worked at foreign universities.

(Note: If you know anybody who is planning to go to graduate school; suggest to them that they get a job in the reference dept. of the university library. It used to be a great preparation for doing research. Things might have changed too much.)

My first computer had a 5.25" HDD with less than 3 gb of space. A lot compared to some of these numbers but nothing now. It also only had 32 mb of integrated ram, non-upgradable, although there was a slot for cache. It was a pentium MMX processor. I don't remember if it was the 250 htz model or if I was lucky enough to get the 266. A receipt shows that my grandmother paid over a grand for it including a monitor and printer, if I remember right. After that computer died I opened up the drive. It was a neat experience looking at such a highly polished plate that reflected better than any mirror I've ever seen.

That's interesting that you can't remember much about your 1st computer. I can remember just about every detail of my 1st which was purchased in 1984. It was an IBM PC with a 4.77Mhz 8088 cpu, 256K of memory, 2 360K floppy drives, CGA graphics (4 colors!) and a color monitor. I also purchased a dot matrix printer, parallel printer cable, PC DOS 2.1, IBM Personal Editor software and a box of floppies at the same time. Bought it at Computerland and with my IBM employee discount that all cost me $2500.