The very first Windows and the Granddaddy of WinXP.

[conjur]

Hey! It supported subdirectories!

 

[XZeroII]

You can't run it on modern machines. You get the blue MS logo (the first screenshot) then it crashes. No mouse support.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: OokiiNeko
My first "Windows" was GEOS on my Commodore 128.

 

[bernse]

I remember 3.1 on the 486.

I also remember Geos on my 64.

I think AMIGA workbench>* though

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: OokiiNeko
My first "Windows" was GEOS on my Commodore 128.

Started on the C=64 for me, but yeah.

C=128d with a 16mb ramdrive and a 240mb hard drive= sweet machine.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

i am surprise the site doesn't list Xerox's Star GUI.

 

[TommyVercetti]

Originally posted by: Rob9874

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Sweet...I just turned that Windows 1.01 boot-up screen into my XP boot sequence background!

Ooh...tell me how!

Found it

http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00027.asp

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
You can't run it on modern machines. You get the blue MS logo (the first screenshot) then it crashes. No mouse support.

I succeeded in getting it to the menu/desktop/whatevcer you wanna call it on an XP1700 (FAT16 partition) running within WinXP as a DOS app. I suspect if I actually installed and booted an era version of DOS, it would work a wee bit better. But still definitely no PS/2 mouse support. PS/2 keyboard is a maybe.In fact, if I ever get a harddrive for my 386. Need ISA IDE board! The archaic drive connection ain't workin for me (Probably because the drive is dead...), and my mac SCSI drives don't have ID settings so it's a PITA to use them. Wait... I have a Quantum HardCard! OMFG. I need to try it.

Do I get a cookie if I make it work?

 

[alkemyst]

apple ][. ][+, //e, ProDos, Amiga 3000, FreeBSD, VAX/VMS (at school), MSDOS->6.22, Windows 1, 1.01, 2, 3, 3.11WFW a long time, Win95OSR1, Win98Lite, then XP Pro....

Used TandyDos or whatever, a little Warp, a little PC-DOS, a little CPM, Macintosh a bit...whatever came on a Tandy model 3 and 4, probably more.

 

[thomsbrain]

my dad has a copy of window 1 lying around here somewhere. we never used it though, it was always DOS back in those days. We used 3.1 for some time, it was actually fairly stable for the stuff we used it for. I skipped 95 and have since used 98, ME, 2000, and XP Pro.

 

[LongCoolMother]

wow. amazing. and i thought windows 3.0 on my 286 was old!!!

 

[DanTMWTMP]

interesting...nice find

 

[PatboyX]

i miss the dosshell

edit: i actually miss all of dos.

i remember when i saw my friends with windows for workgroups. they had the extra games and stuff so i grabbed that disk from theirs to use it on my inferior-feeling windows 3.1 machine.

 

[Shawn]

I installed Dos 6.22 reciently and was very upset when I found out it didn't come w/ dosshell! :|

 

[alkemyst]

yeah I think 6.1 was the last version with dosshell....

 

[Shawn]

Why'd they get rid of it?

 

[alkemyst]

6.22 was designed to be used with windows I believe so by default you would have a GUI.

I think it was a way of getting those not accepting windows to finally cave in....

If you think about it, the next DOS was integral with Windows.

 

[Shawn]

I thought that was DOS 7.0 that was integrated w/ windows 95?

 

[BlackOmen]

Originally posted by: DurocShark

Originally posted by: OokiiNeko
My first "Windows" was GEOS on my Commodore 128.

Started on the C=64 for me, but yeah.

C=128d with a 16mb ramdrive and a 240mb hard drive= sweet machine.

Word. Used GEOS on a C64. I was one screwed up 8 year old but I thought that the paint program with pixels the size of a rock was awesome.

 

[alkemyst]

I believe 7 was right after 6.22....and was the platform 95 ran and not available separately.