Mum Tries Out Tandy DeskMate 3.02 (1988)

Back in the 80's there were a variety of graphical operating environments such as GEM, Tandy DeskMate and early versions of Windows that ran on top of MS-DOS, providing a keyboard and mouse driven graphical interface alternative to typing text based commands.
In this episode, Diana will be trying out Deskmate 3.02 from 1988. Will she be able to navigate her way around or will this interface be a bit too difficult for her? Keep watching to find out!
Next time on OSFirstTimer, watch as Diana tries another piece of software from yet another time period in history. See you next time!
Outro Music: • Video
Walk Home - Solar (from about 2 minutes in)

[@OsFirstTimer]

You guys may notice the completly new intro in this video (15 seconds in) which replaces both the original OSFirstTimer intro as well as the OSFirstTimer Advanced Intro with the fire and dramatic music (well... this one has dramatic music too). The reason for the change is that, just yesterday, I found out that the music in the osft advanced intro was protected by copyright. Shortly after uploading the Algodoo video, KZbin sent me a copyright notice and told me that the video was sharing profit with "PositionMusic". I thought it was odd and maybe a mistake as I hadn't used any new music in the video (and I've been using the advanced intro since jan 2015). I then uploaded the Resume video and got the same copyright notice so, stupidly I filed a dispute which was rejected and at this point I realised where the music came from. In regards to the new intro, you guys have been asking me for a new one for years now as the current ones are around 15-20 seconds long (which is a bit too much once you have seen it in every video). So the new intro is 3 seconds long and the special visuals were borrowed from editing work I've been doing for a Sydney fitness company as well as footage from recent videos, specifically to include Ben somewhere in the intro ;)

[@weeeeeeeeeeeew]

hi

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I do sometimes respond, TheGamingPizza542, but, with the amount of comments I get it can sometimes be hard

[@Jas0nAlexander]

Love the new intro! 😊

[@vicr123]

New intro is short and sweet :) (and flat :D)

[@nicholastr]

I am sorry you got the copyright thingymacdongles but I like the new intro thingymajig!

[@fabian6514.cr3]

Ohhh, the good old Diana Radioactive Colours

[@LetGoMyLegosTyler]

lol

[@PantsYT]

Only in Diana Perfect OS.

[@MaksKCS]

"f this and f that" -OSFirstTimer 2018

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Love your videos Philip and Diana, it's been great watching the channel grow and change over the years (I've been watching since 2013) love your channel so much I have a lot of good memories watching it this might sound weird but your channel has become a part of my life because of all the memories I have with it carry on the good work

[@OsFirstTimer]

Wow, I'm glad the channel has made such an impact in your life! You certainly have been around watching for a long time. Sometimes I feel the channel has reached a dead end in regards to how long viewers will still find it's content interesting, but looks like I'm at least slightly wrong there. I hope you've learned lots along the way watching this channel, just as I have learned heaps while making this videos.

[@KalYonder]

Digging the new intro, Phil! Definitely looks more professional than the previous ones, albeit the music makes it sound kinda breaking news-y, know what I mean? That's not a problem though :D Kinda unrelated, but seeing the new intro reminded me of the few times I joined the OSFT Weekly Chats (when they were a thing), for some bizarre reason. Dunno how these two things are related in *any* way, but my brain does this sometimes.

[@vicr123]

Would it be the elevator music I used to play in the chats? :)

[@KalYonder]

Seems so :p

[@jnist1-i7y]

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I'd love that day to come, but sometimes it feels like new subs are coming in so slow that that day may never come. But thanks, I love your enthusiasm!

[@pitaya4151]

OSFirstTimer It is true because of the inactivity you had, mate.

[@MrSamadolfo]

😍 im waiting for mum to start building some pc gaming desktops yay! 💻🖥💻🖥💻🎮🕹😍🚩

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OSFirstTimer it’s because you took a long break from when you were gaining subs. You gotta get in the mind of the algorithm. You should be able to come back once you post frequent videos for a while, then KZbin will start putting you in recommended again.

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OSFirstTimer Well OSFirstTimer gained 16K subscribers in the last 14 months so hopefully 100K will happen in the next year :D

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First! Philip, I love watching this channel. Your family is one of the best family friendly family's on KZbin.

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Amazing video Love that you're back

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i cant express how much i love this channel

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Windows 93 has returned...

[@TylerFurrison]

I remember the first video I've ever watched from you, OSFirstTimer History, and now it's well out of date!

[@vicr123]

It wasn't a _filler,_ rather it was a _filer_ (file-r: a thing that files stuff) hahaha :)

[@SuiYo]

i died when he called it a filler ahh

[@mesub7]

Found you!

[@Cart1416]

"if you press the f it will f the recording", that's pretty funny

[@T.J..]

YAY! Finally an upload!

[@Xymachos]

Diana's color combinations are certainly eyesore.

[@maplelilysofia9329]

yay another video! :)

[@notrealhawks]

Love the new intro! x

[@thingswithval]

I love your brand new short intro😍

[@VolatileDoor6]

I just home got from school. And I saw this. The title sounds awesome. ps I love the new intro.

[@ivanstoyanov3035]

The New Intro Is SOO COOOOL

[@zalyaw]

Love the look of the new TV Like style titles

[@NotBart]

Hi!, this is my most favourite channel on youtube, so yeah just wanted to say that

[@fxshyy]

Love the new intro...

[@scottr.7077]

DeskMate is the perfect name for an Australian OS.

[@aut0maniak]

I love the love in both of yours

[@morexpentu9565]

Awsome new intro!

[@Sad-zm9or]

I love your background colors

[@rllife]

We had this program on our computers in high school. They were Tandy I think with a 286 processor.

[@techvideos8664]

20min ago best I've done and nice intro mate and UK people Say Mate... PS still the good old Outro

[@techvideos8664]

And I like that recently that OSFirstTimer has made videos and I'm UK and you deserve more subs

[@Overgreen]

I went onto my TV to check your channel, and wow! Video uploaded 4 minutes ago. I just had to comment using my iPod. I’m trying to think of a suggestion for a video...

[@Overgreen]

Well also watching on a TV then turning on my iPod just to leave a comment about watching it on my TV is weird....

[@kbhasi]

As for suggestions, well, for me, I had been imagining having them try Red Hat Linux 9, but it would turn out to be the current version of Fedora at the time, in disguise.

[@Overgreen]

I’m still thinking of something... it’s been 24 hours from my regular post, right?

[@rafaxis2697]

Memories thinking around

[@NtvBulgaria]

💡 Idea for the next video: Mum tries out Autodesk 3ds Max.

[@SydeLeaderRayOLD]

New intro! Nice. Quick and simple. 😉

[@OsFirstTimer]

Looks like about 85% of subs like it and 15% rather the old one. As long as most people like it I'm happy as the change wasn't my choice, it was forced due to copyright reasons. So as long as a positive comes out of it, I'm happy :)

[@Cferdy124]

Cool a new video thanks

[@cruzyii]

That green ui tho. Great video as always. :)

[@OsFirstTimer]

I'm a fan of green on black UI :)

[@cruzyii]

OSFirstTimer I remember using a green on black theme on windows 7 I think, looked like a virus on win 98.

[@LuberthDijkman]

Nice like it I played with quickmenu in the past and liked it

[@trollsthatlol1]

RIP Tandy RadioShack :(

[@batchmaster8994]

Newer is always the best!

[@runwiththedolphin]

ah deskmate, my first GUI! Tandy 1000 FTW! you ain't livin' unless you got 2 floppy drives :)

[@tonyc9684]

Cool video

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Just yesterday with the help of OSFirstTimer I have escaped the clutches of microsoft and Windows 10. Well, at least on my laptop anyway, on that I've moved to antergos with the Xfce desktop environment and I couldn't be happier with the speed and customizability. I have to stay with Windows 10 on my PC though, because I use things like Sony Vegas and Gaming :p

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Good. I've been using Kubuntu for years

[@RobinMgp]

ShinyHo-Oh789 ShinyHo-Oh789 nice. I dual booted kubuntu with win10 on my laptop since I got it February this year, but only recently got rid of windows off it :p

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Try kdenlive for editing

[@TheDoginator]

haha got here in the first 15 mins... didn't even have notifs on

[@moha-p5192]

Nice new intro!

[@nikoiogy]

2:22 F that F this

[@abandoned7501]

you back, lol

[@rudyiraheta80]

the next episode should have you all counting to 100

[@johnschneider931]

I have run ubuntu in a virtual machine. I have an 9 year old netbook and now want to run this on it. One of my first games was Pt-109 that I ran on a Tandy 1000 with 640k upgrade memory. Is the best way a vm with a dos emulator that runs deskmate?

[@buna-gf8ku]

Let's go to 100K!!!

[@smoothiethepotato]

Diana's radioactive colors is ruining my eyes 😂😱

[@zalyaw]

Wow the editing got a boost

[@thememegarden4479]

Woah this is cool, it's like a semi-os

[@OsFirstTimer]

Windows 1-3 were all in the same category as this, none of them were stand alone operating systems :)

[@Cerracrossing]

@@OsFirstTimer Depending on how it was installed, wasn't Windows 95 the same way as well?

[@Xnoob545]

7:36 Kazakhstan theme

[@lucythedachshund6793]

I've been here for 3 years anybody else?

[@zombieanidata]

I kinda like what diana do

[@erikas8781]

can you make video called windows neptune is based with windows 2000

[@Amber_123]

Good, I wasn't eating a candy during this one.

[@OsFirstTimer]

This one wasn't actually that funny so don't worry, eat the candy, you won't choke ;)

[@Amber_123]

I thought it was pretty funny. Eh. *Puts candy in mouth*

[@Ameenlox]

aww I Miss The old Intro

[@taureon_]

fun fact: Tandy DeskMate is a windows competitor and lost to windows 3

[@David-iw4gt]

When are you doing the song contest thing?

[@piggyproductionsgaming7453]

Dad tries out Windows XP Vienna edition with Mum watching

[@Omegas_Tech]

+OSFirstTimer Nice New Intro 😀

[@OsFirstTimer]

Thanks, hope it's not too short :P

[@Omegas_Tech]

Not being rude but its a little short but it looks good

[@kayleigh1991]

I like the pink and blue lol

[@kennysbusdrawings]

Somehow, I also felt sick.

[@TheInfi]

Will the Outro stay?

[@slaythedayqueen69]

Could you guys a plumber from currently

[@krissy980]

So neon

[@tomdoe1234]

win 95/98/me were on top of dos as well

[@intel386DX]

this is VGA or high res EGA ? and can it run on CGA?

[@oktalon]

etc. et cetera ect. electroconvulsive therapy -Google

[@nicepotato5755]

I FEEL SICK TO

[@ringhost]

can you try iOS 12

[@thebrickler2299]

That color combo made me sick as well

[@intel386DX]

oh those crazy colors , your mom have to be color blind :D

[@PaleozoicProductions]

I wonder how people would of reacted when the first computer with an advanced interface came out

[@eekmeout]

i got sick

[@jub8891]

Mum tries out Dark Souls!

[@m4tt_314]

I watch your channel for a longer period of time :D I may not be sure, but I picked up that you're a programmer, that's why you got sick of the color scheme :D You're not used to this kind of combination :D i thought i'm going blind :D

[@a0d_s]

Lol funny as always

[@OsFirstTimer]

I'm glad you like it, although, this one was a lot less funny that some of our previous videos. You may find it interesting that the original video length was 48 minutes, however, due to a lot of uninteresting parts it was shortened a lot. Most OSFirstTimer videos are an hour before being edited to ensure they are fast paced and don't get too boring :)

[@samdroidva]

What Emulator are you using to run Deskmate?

[@jonandersen1737]

2:28 don't do any effing. Lol

[@GassedSantos]

Hey my dude, if you're having copyright issues then maybe I could help you out by producing a bespoke piece of music for your introductions? I've been watching your videos for a few years so it would be great to be able to give something back, contact me if you're interested :)

[@RobinMgp]

Woah, I misread 728 views as 72B views!

[@MrSamadolfo]

🤓 I remember Tandy computers back in the 80s but I dont know what is Deskmate 😇

[@folksurvival]

You should show a photo of your mum from whatever year the OS is that she is trying out. So 1988 in this case.

[@gmdpartii7339]

#NOTIFICATIONSQUAD!!!

[@derpeii]

I think im actually the only one that prefers the old intro.

[@5up3rp3rs0n]

Well the old one got copyright striked so it can't be helped

[@derpeii]

No the copystricken one was the OSFT Advanced intro. I prefer the old non-advanced intro.

[@LiEnby]

Do a video on Windows Embedded POSReady

[@yassermourchid4205]

Nice intro! Can your mom test a gaming console like the OG Xbox or Playstation 1.

[@metallitech]

I have an operating system for you to try; one which I don't think you have featured before: It's called Menuet . It's apparently written only in assembly.

[@zalyaw]

This is the only video i can watch as one of the first people. Lol I'm in the uk so u usually upload at like 1 am for me. (Lol) Edit: OMG I have been waiting for a top comment and i finally got one Yay!

[@techvideos8664]

The Video was like 23min ago and I'm UK and it was 6am-7am so change your time zone with would be correct.

[@zalyaw]

no bru i mean they usually post at about mid night uk

[@JoshuaG1000]

Can you do mum tries out kali Linux

[@piggyproductionsgaming7453]

Ben tries out Windows XP Vienna edition

[@thekidofgaming]

I'd like to have my eyesight than have lots of colors

[@cfpwastaken]

why December (that will be nice) *1988*

[@unlikepaladin]

I didn't get the notification! 😡

[@seroujghazarian6343]

You forgot to tell her to shutdown lol

[@paradoxiswhatiwanttojoin736]

Is it even possible to destroy that operating syatem

[@gurseeritchahal1377]

12:05

[@marekmce1]

Mum tries out i3 window manager?

[@ikwsi]

8:40 ifeel sick 🤮 2