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Windows 1.0 anyone?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:27 pm
by das_fink

Re: Windows 1.0 anyone?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:36 pm
by Devvil
so steve balmer was crazy from the beginning :mrgreen:


You Tube Direct Link

Re: Windows 1.0 anyone?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:38 pm
by Renax
He's my favoutie Gaming "big guy" after Gabe ofc :)

Re: Windows 1.0 anyone?

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:41 am
by Cwmagain
Damn, i used to use 3.1 and think I was old :o

Re: Windows 1.0 anyone?

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:16 am
by BBloke
I remember the days of DOS and GEM GUI (I think) as well as windows when it was just a means of file browsing.. Ahhhhh the memories!

Re: Windows 1.0 anyone?

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:50 am
by Flynnstone
Hhmm I've used DOS and 3.1. Didn't come across the earlier windows versions.

Re: Windows 1.0 anyone?

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:56 am
by [KBH] Fist of death
I remember before dos, gw basic and comal (not cobal, I never used that one), and dos 3.1, 5 and I think 6.2 was the last one, my first windows was 3.0, can't remember seeing 1 or 2, and 3.0 did not have a mouse yet, lol

Re: Windows 1.0 anyone?

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:58 am
by BBloke
I remember DOS 2.1 and up as well as DR DOS 5 (better than DOS at the time). They all had there little quirks but then PC had no RAM or large storage device and getting programs to work took hours.

Re: Windows 1.0 anyone?

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:05 pm
by MountieXXL
Saw that Windows 1.0 commercial in a computer museum a few weeks ago, good stuff =D

Re: Windows 1.0 anyone?

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:21 am
by JJzer0
That takes me back.....

I sort of got into the PC when I was in my early 20's and the state of the art Consumer PC at that time was based on a 486dx2-66 and where for example an 8MB (MegaBytes) of ram module would cost £300-400!
I used to Run initially Dos 6.0 and WFWG (Windows for WorkGroups) 3.11.

To run games I used QuarterDeck's Qemm Memory management software so I could use past the Dos barrier of 640KB easily, so some games (which I still have) could make use of the available extended memory ie the rest of your system ram if you had any extra.

For Anti Virus I had Norton's Dos Version 3.0 (may have been earlier), where the virus definitions would be sent to you monthly through the post on a 1.44 Floppy Disk.