My first computer was a PET with dual tape drives. I learned as the PC operating systems changed through dos and finally to Windows. XP was the first really solid, stable operating system and I still use it for all my technical designing and programming. Vista was a total failure. Windows 7 turned out to be not too bad. 8 has a peculiar non-intuitive interface. Windows 9 never happened. Windows 10 is designed for the unwashed masses. It focusses on the internet and entertainment (hence the user-hostile widescreen display). I find it very difficult to use for technical purposes because it does not give me the choices I need. It tries to do everything for me but in it's own way. Very often when I save a file, it does not get put where I expected and have to go searching for it. I will continue to use XP for as long as I possibly can.I switched to a Mac years ago, Linux is a good choice on the server end of things, but you can't get away from Windows and I might go back when they stop using Inel chips and MCU, I get why they want to go back to the old chips but I want a machine that can Vbox a windows or linux OS.
Yes, .net and X86 are vulnerable but how will that affect me, not much I'd say, I can just re-image if need be. I don't keep anything on a machine that is of any consequence.
I'll go Linux if Mac decides to go back to old chips and hardware.
kv
Edit: Bing kept opening when I booted Exploder, you can still get into the regedit and turn off that auto search thingy. Can't remember what program, but it's way down in, but you can do it.
I had a TRS-80 Model 1, fully loaded with 16K of RAM and Level II BASIC! My friend had a PET, another an IMSAI. We used to haunt the micro stores, we had two in town plus a Heathkit. We played with KIM, Apple, SWTPC, Sol, Jupiter, and others.My first computer was a PET with dual tape drives. I learned as the PC operating systems changed through dos and finally to Windows. XP was the first really solid, stable operating system and I still use it for all my technical designing and programming. Vista was a total failure. Windows 7 turned out to be not too bad. 8 has a peculiar non-intuitive interface. Windows 9 never happened. Windows 10 is designed for the unwashed masses. It focusses on the internet and entertainment (hence the user-hostile widescreen display). I find it very difficult to use for technical purposes because it does not give me the choices I need. It tries to do everything for me but in it's own way. Very often when I save a file, it does not get put where I expected and have to go searching for it. I will continue to use XP for as long as I possibly can.
Later models arrived with 16K installed and a jumper to cut to upgrade the RAM because RAM got really cheap and Tandy still wanted the money the upgrade brought in.Hello,
The TRS80 model 1 was also my first computer.
I made a memory extention by piggy backing more memory chips to have the full 48 K memory withoput the expantion box.
Bertus
Actually the Heath/Zenith ZDOS was a much better contender and had much more potential than the PCDOS of the time.we had two in town plus a Heathkit.
Later, CP/M then DOS, and of course on to Windows. Things are a different universe than we we started with desktop computing...
SCO UNIX figured into my consultancy for quite a while. Along with some other oddball OSs.Actually the Heath/Zenith ZDOS was a much better contender and had much more potential than the PCDOS of the time.
When IBM selected DOS the rest became history.
I got hold of some PC's that had a Unix based operating system, the U.S. anti-dumping laws prevented unloading them there.
So they could be picked up for a song in Canada, too bad any S/W applications were virtually nil.
Max.
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