[Video] mother Tries out amigaOS Workbench 1.1 (1985)

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My mum recently tried out one of Amiga's first operating systems from 1985... I've got to say, apart from lack of applications installed out of the box it was a pretty good operating system for its day. It had icons, resizable and drag able overlapping windows, color, multitasking. I think it actually beats windows 1.01 from 1985!

Anyways here's a video of my mum trying it out and attempting to perform a variety of tasks on it without help: http://youtu.be/d6mDXKU29w0

We do this same "do these tasks on this OS without help" tests on lots of operating systems both old and new. To compare amiga to other operating systems from around 1985 here are some more old systems she has tried:

Mac OS System 1.1 (1984): http://youtu.be/L7krm0_Oqg
Windows 1.01 (1985): http://youtu.be/UToIwIe6sSM

So my question for all of you is:

"If it was 1985 what OS out of the 3 mentioned above would you use?"

Remember that although the amiga had a lack of preinstalled applications more could still be installed that were better than applications for windows and Mac (as far as I have been told).

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That sounds like WinUAE's emulated floppy sound.  You can adjust the volume to your preference but by default it's a little loud yet.
I actually like this feature of WinUAE, it really gives a feeling of working on an actual hardware Amiga.

Amiga forever was used to emulate this system and it made all those sounds by default...

Also, I think it is set on TURBO, so it's not the usual RK TK TK DREE DROO. Instead it's BLEAURGHWAHHBRAINS !!!

This is set on turbo just because I didn't want the video to take too long and have my subscribers get bored watching it.

What do you mean, which one would I use?  I was alive back then, and I did use* Amiga OS.  If I had to go back to 1985, even with hindsight of it eventually being a dead end, I'd pick an Amiga again, no doubt.  It was far and away the best system of its time.

(* Technically, I didn't use Amiga in 1985, but only because I was a broke kid, and couldn't afford to upgrade from my Commodore 64 to an Amiga until a couple years later...)

Lol my parents used a Commodore 64 too... Well at least my dad did. My mum used a Tandy trs 80.

Which was pretty much any time you did anything on an Amiga 1000 with WB1.1.

Did offices use an amiga 1000? How was the noise level?