What was your os (When you were a kid)

Technology
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Old packard bell laptop from 2006 (either mz35 or mz36) running windows vista, i still use it to this day, although the first time i used it was like 2010 and all i did was just use ms paint :stuck_out_tongue:

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Back when I was a kid I used:

  • Windows 98
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8/Windows 8.1
  • Windows 10 (versions 1507-1809)
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windows 7 :heart:
my fav forever
if someone says its bad ill beat them to death

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Windows XP and 7. I had a Dell XP and some generic-ass Computer running windows 7

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Windows 98 with lot of DOS games and Windows XP :stuck_out_tongue: Also used Atari 2600 for some games.

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Windows XP professional

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The first PCā€¦ I remember it being a 2006 Celeron D with 128MB of RAM. According to the left side of the cabinet, it used to have Insigne Linux 2.0, but when it got semi-new (with the box included) it got Windows XP Home Edition (then Professional) in it.

I have used it until 2016, when it got to be used to someone else in my family and the CMOS battery probably died without it being turned on for almost 7 years (but itā€™s recoverable)

2010-2017 the time when I used it

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Windows Vista (canā€™t remember the SKU) but mostly Windows 7 Home Basic.

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i mostly grew up with a dell xps 8500 (YES, that is the exact model) running win 8.1 and then later upgraded with win 10, now its broken due to a ram issue and a broken GPU.

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Had a Fujitsu Seimens SCALEO P from 2004. Ran Windows XP Home Edition.
Had 2GB of RAM, 80 GB IDE HDD, Intel Inside Celeron D (Oddly canā€™t find no details about it online)
After years of it collecting dust, iā€™m fixing it up now.

Though we did have an ā€œUpgradeā€ to a Windows 7 Acer laptop (Model unknown, specs unknown, i was too young lol) It ran like crap, and died after like a few months.

We continued to use the Fujitsu until around the time Windows XPā€™s EOS date started spreading around. It wasnā€™t the end of support that stopped us though, I was still pretty young and inexperienced. I ended up deleting some critical things from System32, thinking I was cleaning junk. It was then my parents thought the computer couldnā€™t be repaired, so it was dumped in the attic, and there it remained.

(Donā€™t know if it counts, but I also used Windows Server 2008 R2 in primary school, For some reason, it remained their main OS for my entire time there, on both Workstations and the servers. It was pretty unrestricted too, so I literally have experience with it dating back to primary school.)

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you should get that pc, insert a usb drive and install a lightweight linux distro, woodland, prolly that fujitsu still has probably some chance of life. and not e-waste.

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I know itā€™s not E-waste lol, itā€™s become a little project of mine to restore it. I do not plan on installing linux as this project is mostly meant for nostalgia reasons, Linux was never used on the machine. I plan to use it for retro stuff, such as games etc.

(Btw, while the machine did have USB, I think the BIOS is too old to support USB booting. Iā€™d have better chances with a CD, which no CD installers exist with the latest versions of linux.)

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i doubt it will be hard to find a bootable cd, but nice idea. i think buying a used copy of XP on ebay and installing on the machine (including sp3 prolly also from cd) will restore life into it. the hard thing will be installing apps and games into it.

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I have my own CD for Windows, I have a huge archive of apps too, and can set up a seperate network for file sharing.

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nice, well, that eases the work for you!

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PCLinuxOS or Insigne Linux, itā€™s between these but Iā€™m suspecting it was PCLinuxOS tho

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Have you wiped the data already? Does anything potentially rare or just cool softwares on it?
Try making a dual boot if possible or use Hirenā€™s Boot CD (XP Mini) to make a backup (or insert it as a dual drive)

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So far it doesnā€™t even seem to post XD, I get no display output

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not even the Hard Disk alone?

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when it turns on, the fans spin up, the CD/DVD drives get accessed, the power light stays on, and i get no display output. The hard disk activity light does turn on with no flashing for a few seconds, then disappears. When connecting speakers, i also get no sound, so iā€™m assuming that there is no boot device. Iā€™m not sure if itā€™s the TV iā€™m using (it has VGA input, have no monitor) thatā€™s causing no display output, so iā€™ll try to purchase an actual period specific monitor.

Iā€™m pretty sure the windows install was screwed anyways, so that could be the reason too. The hard disk seems to spin up too.

(It could be a CMOS battery issue too, the thing had not been turned on in years)