{"id":13631,"date":"2014-07-14T19:15:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2014-07-14T19:15:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:15:01","slug":"an-old-timey-os-throwdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/an-old-timey-os-throwdown\/","title":{"rendered":"An Old Timey OS Throwdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Facebook, a friend posted a picture of a copy of Windows 98 Update in its original retail packaging. Not to be outdone by any poser who would pretend to be a hoarder, I proffered the following collection:<\/p>\n

\"20<\/p>\n

That’s Windows 95, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT Workstation, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home, and Windows XP Professional. All within easy reach<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So some other poser put up a picture of Solaris 2.6. Well, all right, then, if we’re defenestrating, have a look at this bad boy:<\/p>\n

\"GEOS<\/p>\n

That’s GEOS 2.0, a circa 1986 GUI for Commodore 64 users who wanted their C64s to look like a Macintosh. Although this was not in reach, I retrieved it from storage in about five minutes of digging through boxes, an exploration that showed me I have two copies of Bard’s Tale<\/em> for the Commodore 64. But only two copies for five Commodore 64s<\/a> and a Commodore 128. I must fix this balance by finding more copies of <\/em>The Bard’s Tale.<\/p>\n

I could not, however, find the copy of CP\/M Plus<\/a> from 1983 that came bundled with my first Commodore 128 for people who wanted their Commodores to look like a PC. I must have included it when I sold my first Commodore 128 (WHAT! You sold<\/em> a computer? Well, I was young, and I needed the money).<\/p>\n

So what’s the oldest operating system you’ve got, son?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Facebook, a friend posted a picture of a copy of Windows 98 Update in its original retail packaging. Not to be outdone by any poser who would pretend to be a hoarder, I proffered the following collection: That’s Windows 95, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT Workstation, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home, and Windows XP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-personal-relics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13633,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions\/13633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}