No, it's not easier!!! It would be pointless to dig it out just to have to put it back, I guess none of you have ever had anything in storage before, or either you just have way more time on your hands than I do. Anyway, I found out what it is! I asked on this MUSIC forum that I go to a lot, and 2 people there knew it. It's not an OS at all, come to find out what I thought was an OS was just a DOS shell, that ran automatically. It's such a shame that no one here knew that, you should be embarassed that I found the answer on a music forum.

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With your description it could have been anything! You still don't realy know anyway without confirming it do you?

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Yes, I do know, because the people at that forum, acted like they really wanted to help, I took the time, to give a detailed description. ::copy paste:: no command line crap, or anything like that. well if you opened an invalid file you had to do command EXIT to get out. I don't know the model number, its either PS/2-??? or PS/1-??? Here's what it was like, okay. No "desktop" persay, that's one reason I say it's not a windows OS, another is becuase I would insert a floppy that say, came free in the mail, and I would be told "you must be running windows to use this disc" or something like that. The main screen has a blue-ish background with four big squares, this is your menu. One square is for files, one is for programs like spreadsheet and word prosessor. I'm not sure of the other 2 squares, one might have been a directory of somesort, and the other a way to connect to the internet (which I never had on that computer). When you go into your files section, you see two icons on the top right ones drive A and the other drive B, I think the hard drive was B. The hard drive was preselected, and the main folder opened, which appeared as a big manilla folder, with a sheet of paper inside, this "sheet of paper" had filenames on it. When you clicked a filename, that program or document would open. When viewing a folder with other folders inside you would see the tops of the other folders across the bottom of the screen, one behind the other in a file cabinet like fashion. You click on a folder and it opens, esc. I mostly used this computer for games, if the names of games helps here's a few, I can remember: Wolfenstien 3D, Duke Nukem 1,2,and 3, Crystal Caverns 1,2, and 3, Sierra's Kings Quest, History, some car racing game made by California games I think, Monopoly, Dinomath (hehe, that was for 3 grade) wait what year was third grade?! ::does math:: 91-92. So yeah, the computer was a '91 model, making it most definately not a windows OS.

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The PS/1 did have something similar in ROM. I remember my nextdoor neighbour had one and the HDD when tits up but still dispayed the Startup Menu. Btw MS Windows 3.1 was out and about in 1991.

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This computer had no startup menu. I know there were windows os' then, but IBM and Microsoft ended their agreement to work together in '91. I don't know what this "and the HDD when tits up " is supposed to say.

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In your words- "It was a blue-ish background with four big boxs, you clicked on a box to get what you wanted, one went to files, one to apps like spreadsheets and wordprocessor, and I don't really remember what the other 2 went to. Does this sound familiar?" And "When you go into your files section, you see two icons on the top right ones drive A and the other drive B(replesented the second drive letter allocated to fdds), I think the hard drive was B(the hdd would have still been C:). The hard drive was preselected, and the main folder opened, which appeared as a big manilla folder, with a sheet of paper inside, this "sheet of paper" had filenames on it. When you clicked a filename, that program or document would open. When viewing a folder with other folders inside you would see the tops of the other folders across the bottom of the screen, one behind the other in a file cabinet like fashion. You click on a folder and it opens, esc." This descibes the PS/1 Menu in ROM My freinds PS/1 did have MS Windows 3.1 installed in the hdd and was accesed through this menu. When his daughter pulled the power plug an it it spiked the hdd making it useless but the menu you descibed still showed up on startup. The hdd couldn't be accessed though.

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Also some PS/1 where bundled with GeoWorks- http://home.arcor.de/jmgeithain/demo1.htm

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http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/9020/geos/history.htm Have a look at the GeoWorks Pro discription on this page.

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If you want a good one stop shop to compare GUIs try-http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html

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It would be easier to dig it out of storage after all wouldn't? Also Post 7 was impolite that was not required. If you want folk to help thats fine, but don't be pompus.

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Oh and I forgot some answers to your first post. Q. I was wondering if its possible to transfer games from that computer to my Windows ME computer. A. Yes Q. If I put them onto some floppies would they work in ME. Most likely most will. Drag the bloody IBM out of storage and try it!!!

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nope, nope, nope, and nope nope. oh, and you're just plain rude.

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So did you look at your PS whatever?

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If you are too lazy to try and transfer those games. They are easily available on the internet . Sorry if I appear rude but I'm calling it as I see it.

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Good greif all that time you wasted on here you could have already checked that computer out.

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Exactly. Reese seems to think we here at computing.net have ESP ;)

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Seems to me he's just some know it all BOZO.His dad might be BOZO the clown who knows?

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