[hotShot]

Can you remember the first version of Windows?
Around here it was Windows 1.03 and you had to buy a mouse and connect it to your computer to use it.
This was a big deal because: "Real experts don't need mice..."

What was the first version you used?

[helene_t]

It was in 1988, I think version 1.something. It ran on my 8088 computer although version 3 would run on 386 only. The reason for using windows in 1988 was that the "Balance of Power" game required it. I thought of Windows as a graphical subroutine library and I wasn't aware if any other software than the BoP game ran on it. It would take another four years before I started using it for other purposes than BoP. In the meantime, I used the graphical environment manager (GEM) under DOS and CP/M quite a lot. We started using it at work in 1986.

[babalu1997]

helene_t, on 2010-November-21, 11:49, said:

It was in 1988, I think version 1.something. It ran on my 8088 computer although version 3 would run on 386 only. The reason for using windows in 1988 was that the "Balance of Power" game required it. I thought of Windows as a graphical subroutine library and I wasn't aware if any other software than the BoP game ran on it. It would take another four years before I started using it at work.

i remeber using it circa 1985 in school, there was a room with some cray computers.

but i think you had to type windows at the command prompt to start it, so you could get several windows.

i also do remember using postscript language to print out of a laser printer

funny thing is i have veyr vague recollection of using postscript, ie no trnsfer knowledge to use html or latex.

[mgoetze]

hotShot, on 2010-November-21, 08:48, said:

This was a big deal because: "Real experts don't need mice..."

I can use a computer just fine without a mouse.
The first version of Windows I ever used was 3.0. The last version of Windows which was installed on a computer belonging to me was Windows 2000.

[PassedOut]

mgoetze, on 2010-November-21, 15:57, said:

I can use a computer just fine without a mouse.
The first version of Windows I ever used was 3.0. The last version of Windows which was installed on a computer belonging to me was Windows 2000.

I remember thinking, "A mouse would be great if I had three arms." That was a long time ago.

[Fluffy]

I remember running an old version of windows but quickly quitting because it wasn't helpful for anything, I got everhing I wanted on the C:\> prompt.

First version I actually used was windows 98 directly.

[mtvesuvius]

The earliest version I used was Windows 1995 (the year before I was born ), I just recently found a few CDs that I used to play when I was younger, none were compatible beyond Windows 98... Bleh.

[blackshoe]

When I was at Fleet Training Group San Diego in the mid 80s, the Commodore called me in to his office one day and said "I understand you know how to spell "computer"". When I allowed that I did, he said "we have 30 of them. Figure out what to do with them." So the first thing I did was go talk to the CPO who had been in charge of them. He showed me a closet full of boxes of software, including 45 copies of Windows 1.0. I asked him why this software wasn't installed on the computers. He said "Have you ever *seen* Windows 1.0?" I admitted I had not, so he started it up on the computer on his desk. Then we went to lunch. When we came back, it had just finished booting. Okay, I exaggerate. Slightly. The darn thing was dog slow doing anything. Some time later, I ran into the VP for Federal Marketing of Zenith Corporation, which had written the contract under which all this hardware and software was sold to the military (joint AF/Navy contract, as I recall). When I mentioned Windows, he said "Yeah, I should apologize for that. It should never have been in that contract."

[mike777]

and then no one said anything...sigh.......see lawyer....see boss....sue....money...no



this is what is wrong with gov.....insane...everyone shuts up


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you guys shut up...but do you understand ...


step one of millions and millions of law suit??

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see example we have blackshoe....very very smart ...but he shuts up. This is a super example.

[blackshoe]

wtf?

[Fluffy]

uh, I am silly obviously my first wondows was windows 95, wich I indeed liked more than windows 98. I am so old, my memories are fading

[Gerben42]

My parent's first desk top had something called Geoworks Ensemble installed. Somehow this worked way better than Windows
But then more and more Windows 95 stuff came out and we switched to that. Meanwhile, my dad's company PC was an Apple Macintosh.

[luke warm]

i don't remember the version.. 3.something i guess... it was in, oh '91 or so on an ibm ps1... like someone said above, i remember having to type 'windows' at the command prompt