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[Scobie]

DrDos, IPX, SPX, NDS, autoexec.ncf, server -na, cache buffers...those were the days.

Novell NetWare, best Network Operating System kernel ever designed.

[HaWi]

I'm getting nostalgic - my first was a second hand Tandy Radioshack (1981) 

[robeffy]

DrDos, IPX, SPX, NDS, autoexec.ncf, server -na, cache buffers...those were the days.

Novell NetWare, best Network Operating System kernel ever designed.

I just loved DrDos... ya, good days for sure.
Batch files...

[robeffy]

I'm getting nostalgic - my first was a second hand Tandy Radioshack (1981) 

I forgot that, had one of them.
My wife was tech support manager in Canada for Victor 9000! That used CP/M, Control Program for Microcomputers.  That was a competitor to the IBM XT...

GEM was another great Opsys..

[Scobie]

and XTree Gold for file management. Never been bettered.

[JimH]

Waiting for the Sinclair.

Bob was using a TRS-80 Color Computer when I met him at a very small computer show at the Science Museum in about 1982.  He was running Turtle on it.  I'd bought an Apple IIe a couple years earlier and wasn't getting anywhere with it, so I bought an Osborne.  The first one with a beige case.  We began working together a year later.

And ....  JRiver turns 40 this fall.  It's only a little embarrassing that it's not a Unicorn yet.

[AndrewFG]

only a little embarrassing that it's not a Unicorn yet.

if it was, then you would be building space rockets too...

[DJLegba]

My wife was tech support manager in Canada for Victor 9000! That used CP/M, Control Program for Microcomputers.  That was a competitor to the IBM XT...

I had a Victor 9000. You could boot it with either CP/M or MS-DOS. I usually ran it with MS-DOS because I needed the FORTRAN compiler, but I did play around with Concurrent CP/M, which was pretty cool.

[HaWi]

Waiting for the Sinclair.

Bob was using a TRS-80 Color Computer when I met him at a very small computer show at the Science Museum in about 1982.  He was running Turtle on it.  I'd bought an Apple IIe a couple years earlier and wasn't getting anywhere with it, so I bought an Osborne.  The first one with a beige case.  We began working together a year later.

And ....  JRiver turns 40 this fall.  It's only a little embarrassing that it's not a Unicorn yet.

Well, congrats on 40 years!
My TRS wasn't color, only green phosphorescence. No lower case letters either. It had 64K RAM and 2x 48K external floppy disk drives (very loud). I was a first year college student in Vienna, Austria and got it second hand in the US. Cost me $3000 (revenue from a very tough summer job) and my girl friend at the time was less than happy 
I built my first relational database on it during many sleepless nights. Good times.

[MagerClab]

VERY old folks inhere  ...first computing device of mine was a TI-59, then came CPC 464, Atari ST's, the 286x, various self build X-Boxes ...imac, MBA, macmini, Thinkpads...really a lot of stuff.  Funny thing: the most money on/with these boxes I made with more or less simple text editors, writing either journalistic stuff or html... *ROFL* - Signum and Calamus were quite sophisticated proggies on the ST's, though 

*Let my cherry always be with me* 

[mx4789]

TI-99 4a...  you had to hook it up to your TV and use a cassette recorder to store/load programs.  You'd spend an hour typing lines of commands just to get a ball to bounce across the screen.  Not sure what the OS was on it though.

Netware was a nightmare.  If you looked at it wrong you'd get an AbEnd. 

[dtc]

First computer in 1966  was a GE635 that ran either Multics or the Dartmouth operating system, with access via a telepyype with paper tape punch/reader.  Then IBM System 360/370 with cards and, for the advanced, a IBM Selectric typewriter. A modern phone has more processing power and storage than those systems. Then on to the minicomputer era with DEC RT11 (realtime) and RSX-11 and RSTS (timesharing). 16 bit systems with lots of compilers, databases and system utilities. In the '70s/early '80s, we ran 50 students at a time on a 16 bit  system with 512 KB of memory and 67 MB of disk.  That drive was the size of a washing machine. And we got CRTs and even graphics terminals (Tektronix).  For big systems, there was the Dec System 10/20 running Tops 10/20, a 36 bit system.  Then came the Apple IIs, MS-DOS and CP/M systems. Wow, were they primitive. They had  toy assembler languages, a simple version of Basic and Lotus 1-2-3. But you could see the potential.  Like the minicomputer replaced the mainframes, the PCs replaced the minicomputer.  In both cases, a big step backwards in sophistication to expand the audience.  That time from '65 to '85 was a whirlwind of computer development. Yes, I am old.

[Scobie]

Netware was a nightmare.  If you looked at it wrong you'd get an AbEnd.

Yeah but leave it alone and let it do its thing and it would run for years.