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- Gaiden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I never used anything before 3.0 , I remember seeing 2.0 and going wow I'm glad I gave that a skip, it was ugly as sin. I was a Dos die hard for everything except school projects (Ms Word was quite nice even then) all the way up till Windows 95.
I still look back on my config.sys and autoexec.bat days very fondly , hacking away for an extra 20k of low mem so I could play the latest game :) - padewak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15the first MS Mouse had a steel ball. got some WD40?
- itsonlyb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I was never able to experience Windows prior to 3.1. That is amazing.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Lol, doing that was the first time I every stayed up till 5 in the morning as a kid....oh the memories...of my mom yelling at me because it was a school night...
- sluggoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Yes, but computers in 2025 will be so fast that they will actually move backwards in time by two years.
- KicktheDonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I'd try to forget the hairstyles, if I were you.
- NoThnMoreAB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10is it sad to say that I actually miss all that crap! "damn short 5k... what can i take out?" all to play Tie Fighter.
- rebrad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8GEM was much better that Win 1 or Win 2
- bluephoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I remember seeing the advertisements in magazines and thinking "What the hell are windows?" I couldn't imagine anything besides a dos prompt....
- Quarks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Except in Nebraska.
- markcrules, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Come on... DOS was better wasnt it?
- XSforMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7GEOS 1.0 was at one point one of the most popular operating systems for several platforms. This little piece of engineering ran in computers as old and resource limited as the Commodore 64. It could effectively turned the computer into a windowing platform, and included a WYSIWYG word processor, a paint program, and a file manager. Typefaces, icons, cut&paste, drag&drop were goodies included. Later versions even included support for color desktop. More info to be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_%288-bit_operating_system%29
Windows 1.0? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff. - jollyllama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+82025, eh? You'll probably be running Vista...
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6it looks the same? What kind of substance are you smoking? Win 1.0 looks more like dosshell than Win 3..
- nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wow that brings back some memories!
- noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Not really; Windows 3.1 was the version where it *really* took off apparently. I think 3.0 was a decent success (3.1 had quite a few notable improvements and came out quite a bit later).
However, 2.0 and 1.0 AFAIK don't think did very much at all. Heck, there were probably more people in the UK using Digital Research's "GEM" instead of Windows back then. Admittedly that was because Amstrad included GEM with their PC-compatible range, but still.... - Tyrel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@citrusfizz
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lol! - jn1167, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I was rockin the VIC20 and the BADASS TRS80. Then I went to the Apple lle and thats when they came out with that fat ass version of Donkey Kong!!!. Those were the days!!
http://www.vic20.net/
http://users.vnet.net/gingell/trs80/trs80.html - paulmdx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Windows 1.0 splash screen: "Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, 1985, 1986"
Windows XP 'winver' dialog: "Copyright © 1981-2001".
Parts of XP pre-date 1.0?? I wonder who sneaked in some DOS code..... ;-) - Sixxer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Did Windows 1.0 even let you use several... windows?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8They could have bought another company's code that predated windows 1.0
- icexe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6and 640K of memory ought to be enough to run it!
- nebunezzar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You just wish mice today had balls of steel!
- blobzorz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Wow, you see how far computers have come in such a short time, really makes you think how 2025 will look.
- DJFMA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+621 years is actually a really LONG time considering how fast technology is emerging these days.
- rebrad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Really, I was convinced that a graphical interface would never make it and had very little use. Of course that was true with the state of technology. Now I never want to see command line again.
- hazard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Looking at that computer, its funny how computers actually got BIGGER for a few years.
- moron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No one really ran Windows 1.0, most people just stuck with Dos because it was better and didn't crash the machine as much. I have my windows 1.0 disks around somewhere, as well as several later versions. It wasn't until '95 did things actually get better.
- MrDan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Most of it is probably still based on the bits of 1.0 that didn't work even back then...
- ThrasherC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hmm...I stil have my old copy of Windows 1.0 sitting around somewhere. Right next to Word 1.0 and Flight Simulator 1.0. I wonder if they'd run on XP?
- digdugdig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Like that other guy said, noone used Windows 1.0 or 2.0. Even Geos for C128 was better than Windows 1 & 2. Windows 3.1 with workgroup support was the magical bullet for MS.
- jalapeno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sure it will run... check out this old version of VisiCalc that still runs on windows today...
http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Oh man, CoCo 2 goodness. I had the 4 slot expansion bay, the disk drive, a mouse, and a 1200bps modem.. that was pretty pimp for a CoCo 2. Did you ever use OS:9?
- XSforMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I used an Amiga500 before I got my first PC with windows 3.0. Given the task at hand (which was get me through college).
Many of the tools my college asked for were only available for PC (Borland Pascal and MS Works), and there was certainly a wider variety of applications for the PC. Regionalization and user support for the Amiga was no existent at that point (read no spanish spell checking dictionaries). I got a 486 with 4 MB of memory, which compared with the A500's 68000 and 512K, was definitely a leap forward. Expandability was also also a leap forward, I now had 6 EISA slots to stick whatever I wanted (if I could afford it).
Unfortunately I also got DOS and Windows 3. True multitasking was a joke when compared with what the Amiga OS could deliver, and most of the DOS games were pathetic attempts in the best case when sided versus Agnus, Denise and Paula. Integrated SCSI, cheap multimedia grabbers; the A500 was truly a machine beyond its time.
I probably did right, but even now a days I keep wondering if I could have gotten through college with only my Amiga. - thexder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4QEMM and 386Max to the rescue
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4MS DOS 5 or 6 pimped with 4DOS was bitchin'... Windows was the annoying thing I had to run to use Word or a select few apps.
- emrikol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4odd, my linux doesn't look like that. *hugs old slackware*
- rudolphdude, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10I love that wherever you look in history for Windows you find the "yeah, we had an error here, had to reboot" thing. Failing upwards is an art.
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I love how the "O" in Microsoft looks like the Death Star. Hmmm....
- falltime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Is 21 years really such a short period of time?
- Wolfghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31981 probably refers to portions of the DOS compatibility code.
Don't know if it is related, but Radio Shack was selling an OS overlay called Windows in 1981. It was a text only interface for the TRS line only. Didn't last long. - habenneas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Rotors: I,II,III, Start positions: V,O,R
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GXLBEJNNYZQFZVWFVWOZGZMCRMOSIDMJQEJD - MauMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep my first computer was a Coco 1 (Rev E motherboard). Ran Color Computer TRS DOS, Flex and OS/9 on it. At one point I was one of the 10 or so users who owned MultiView which was basically an MS Windows 1.0 clone for OS/9 :-)
- trogdor282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+395 thru ME were DOS-based.
- gsmithEIDW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Try with dosbox, I've been surprised by some of the ancient things I can still get to run using it:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ - MacDoug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As an elementary school tech teacher, I think it's important that kids be exposed to early computing like this. It's a cool part of history, and helps us to understand what we use today. I'd love to have the space to have a mini-museum of stuff like this in my own computer room!
- thexder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I had a VIC-20 with a Datasette drive and a Volksmodem12 1200 baud modem. I could barely find a BBS with a 1200 baud modem to connect to at the time. Most were a mere 300 baud.
Nothing compares to HST 19.2 goodness, talk about leet - vuzman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@forgetfulca: Don't forget that Windows Me also was just a skin for DOS.
I apologize to anyone I may have offended by bringing back memories of Windows Me. They can't be pleasant. - citrusfizz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8umm
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wow - Solstice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5So did the Mac mice. It's just that Apple (and others) chose to coat them in rubber so that they would actually stick to the desktop surface. I can't imagine trying to use a mouse with a steel ball. It's got to maddening.
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