What was the first version of Windows you ever used?

[guyver01]

This still works. Even in Windows 7. :ninja:

and surprisingly enough.... Windows 7 is

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

 

[DrPizza]

M-Dos, MS-Dos, VMS, and Unix were the first operating systems I worked with. I like Unix the most back then, because it was fun to "hack" into other students' workstations. I wonder what the multi-player game was back then that consumed hours upon hours of people's free time on the Bell labs computer, until it got to the point that no one could actually do any work - the game grew too big & they had to get rid of the game. LOL, and Maurice writing a program to make everyone's screens flash - and crashed the entire thing - it got stuck in a loop and couldn't handle any new instructions. I remember no one being too happy about that (he did it on a weekend before major projects were due.)

I can't remember what the first version of windows was though; probably 3.0 or 3.1; I don't recall which. Since then, 95, 98, xp, vista, 7

 

[Pliablemoose]

2.1, it was god awful, went back to plain DOS...

 

[shortylickens]

and surprisingly enough.... Windows 7 is

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Thats what I been trying to tell people but no one listens. XP is Windows 5. Vista is Windows 6. Win 7 is Windows 6.1.
Its just Vista with a service pack, thats all.
And they charge as if its a whole new version. And thats like saying "Fuck you!" to the people who paid for Vista.

 

[djnsmith7]

Windows 3.1 & DOS back in '93 & I also had a PB machine.

 

[TechAZ]

It was either MS-DOS 5.0 or 6.0. It was just a command prompt and a file tree you could use with your mouse. Once win 3.0/1 came out, I remember starting a BBS. My mother really loved the fact that I had a new hobby that allowed someone to format her computer remotely Good times.

 

[Via]

I remember coming home from college in the 90s, and one of my dad's friends had given him his old PC. I think the brand was AST.

It had windows 3.1, and my dad had taken the plunge on AOL dial-up at like 2400 bps. It would take over a minute to load a picture on a website.

But I loved it. My earliest on-line gaming memory is playing NTN trivia all night long against all the tools that trolled that game, and talking shit back and forth in the live chat.

Is my memory failng me, or was there a lot more live chat back then?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Work had Windows 3.0

First system of my own was NT 1.0 (Alpha version) - Not the release for a DEC system but what was being developed that became NT 3.0

 

[jhansman]

Win 2.0. Came bundled with my MS Mouse, in 1988 (still have the receipt for that system). At the time, people thought it was a semi-cute idea that would never catch on (if not for Excel and Ami Pro, it might never have). On a 10 MHz 80286, it was lame, slow, and buggy; shoulda bought MS stock then. I was running DOS 3.3, where I spent all my time. Who knew...?

 

[Avalon]

Used Windows 3.1 in school, but our first PC used DOS, then Windows 95.

 

[Rubycon]

Since Windows means X86 MS - Windows 1.0.
I've used plenty of other OS both GUI and not.
CP/M was fun in the 70s. :biggrin:

 

[Cheesetogo]

Windows 95, but we used 3.1 in kindergarten.

 

[Shawn]

Thats what I been trying to tell people but no one listens. XP is Windows 5. Vista is Windows 6. Win 7 is Windows 6.1.
Its just Vista with a service pack, thats all.
And they charge as if its a whole new version. And thats like saying "Fuck you!" to the people who paid for Vista.

Actually Windows 2000 was version 5. XP was version 5.1.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I may have used something older in school but my first home PC had Windows 3.11 on it with a Windows 95 disc en route a few weeks later.

 

[mattpegher]

Played arround with windows 1.0 and 2.0 but stuck with DOS until 3.0 came arround.

 

[pcgeek11]

Lots of old farts in here...

 

[MovingTarget]

My first home PC was a 386 running MSDOS 5.0. It had its own boot menu installed, and it worked fine for our games. Soon after getting it, we bought Windows 3.11 and went with that. I now run Windows 7 on my desktop (obviously not the same one). Ye olde 386 is in the garage somewhere...

I didn't get into Macintosh OS until about 2005.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

I probably used 3.0 or 3.1, but was too young to really remember, i definitley remeber using windows 95 though.

Before that i used mostly Macintosh at school.

 

[Zebo]

3.11. Played solitaire on roommates computer that's about it. My first computer was either a powermac 7200 or a windows 2000 box from quantex I forget which came first.

 

[Powermoloch]

2.0

 

[ViviTheMage]

3.1 workgroup baby....or dos 6

 

[sao123]

the first windows I used:

 

[Kaido]

Played on 95, owned 98. I resisted XP for a long, long time.

 

[grrl]

3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 2000, xp

 

[jhansman]

Lots of old farts in here...

Amen to that! And we just keep coming back for more...