What was the first version of Windows you ever used?

[secretanchitman]

3.0/3.1. i just remember playing solitaire and minesweeper at a friends house, with a folder called "the internet shop".

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Lots of old farts in here...

I used to have to walk uphill BOTH to and from the computer lab, sonny boy, while carrying boxes of floppies in blizzard-like conditions!

Oh, and GET OFF MY LAWN!

 

[Matthiasa]

Windows 95, though before that used dos.

 

[Engineer]

I used to have to walk uphill BOTH to and from the computer lab, sonny boy, while carrying boxes of floppies in blizzard-like conditions!

Oh, and GET OFF MY LAWN!

LOL...I used to store my stuff on these...you damn whipper snapper!

I do remember lots of floppy disks. I also remember the 1st 5-1/4" floppies from Radio Shack were almost $10 each. I don't remember how many K the 5-1/4" floppies held...maybe 1.2Meg?

Edit: It was at first 360KB at 40tracks and then the higher density 80 track versions arrived at 1.2Meg.

The first hard drive I saw (high school computer lab in 1985 or so) was about as big as a PC, in it's own, external case and was a whopping 5MB. Boy....I am old.


Edit: This HD - 5MB

 

[makken]

3.1
This brings back memories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14

 

[Away]

NT 4.0 Workstation

 

[manly]

Windows 3.0. Did see Windows 2.x once before that and wasn't exactly inspired.

 

[MotionMan]

the first windows I used:

LOL. I just rented a car for a dat that had power NOTHING - windows, locks, mirror adjustment - All done the old fashion way. I cannot believe they still make cars like that.

MotionMan

 

[DCal430]

First computer I used was an apple, after that the second was a machined with Windows 3.0. However we did not own these machines, the first computer I or should I say my family owned was a Pentium 133 MHZ with Windows 3.11, Windows 95 came out a few months later and we upgraded right away.

 

[Remobz]

I used 3.0. It was terrible. 3.1 was a vast improvement.

This.

 

[Transfusion]

Born in 1998-the first computer I touched was a CompaQ Evo n400c(Pentium III 850) running Win98 in 2002 which is still rock solid up to this day-it has outlasted a BenQ Joybook S73G with a Celeron M 420 and a HP Probook 4510s with a C2D T6570. I have it right in front of me right now running Ubuntu 8.01. I just installed Win 3.1 in a Bochs emulator on my iPod touch for the heck of it- enjoying the retro feeling.

 

[Rubycon]

Floppies?

I remember using electrical tape to cover the erase protect notches in cassette tapes so I could save programs on a weekend when I ran out of "data" cassettes! :biggrin:

Accidentally recorded over one of my Led Zeppelin tapes, forgot about it and put it in my stereo deck and when I expected to hear "When the Levy Breaks" I was greeted with a mirror cracking squeal that would have sent dogs running for cover for blocks. Those were the days! :awe:

 

[EagleKeeper]

Mylar punch tape.

That way you did not have to worry about 52 card picked using a method that Engineer described

 

[AMDZen]

I was a DOS whore prior to 3.x, and even after 3.1 I just had it on my computer but rarely used it. I never actually did more in windows until win 95.

 

[rasczak]

Windows 3.1 here. It's amazing how far the OS has come since those days.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Floppies?

I remember using electrical tape to cover the erase protect notches in cassette tapes so I could save programs on a weekend when I ran out of "data" cassettes! :biggrin:

Accidentally recorded over one of my Led Zeppelin tapes, forgot about it and put it in my stereo deck and when I expected to hear "When the Levy Breaks" I was greeted with a mirror cracking squeal that would have sent dogs running for cover for blocks. Those were the days! :awe:

Hey, I remember using "data" cassettes as well. I'm reasonably certain I still have my C2N Datassette around the house somewhere:

 

[Saint Nick]

3.1 on a Packard Bell 486DX/2

 

[TheSlamma]

Windows 3.0, Geoworks was better

But DOS 5.0 and later 6.22 were better then both.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

LOL...I used to store my stuff on these...you damn whipper snapper!

I do remember lots of floppy disks. I also remember the 1st 5-1/4" floppies from Radio Shack were almost $10 each. I don't remember how many K the 5-1/4" floppies held...maybe 1.2Meg?

Edit: It was at first 360KB at 40tracks and then the higher density 80 track versions arrived at 1.2Meg.

The first hard drive I saw (high school computer lab in 1985 or so) was about as big as a PC, in it's own, external case and was a whopping 5MB. Boy....I am old.


Edit: This HD - 5MB

I started high school in the fall of 85. In Jr. High, we had TRS-80s and then Acorn computers (don't even ask) networked together. I was literally the only one who could figure the Acorns out and when I moved on to high school, I would still get calls from the Jr. High and have to go fix their issues before school.

I don't even remember seeing a hard drive in high school to be honest. They started with TRS-80s as well and then got Atari STs. I laughed because I was (and am still) an Amiga fan!

 

[Deeko]

First computer we owned was Windows 3.1 - an IBM PS/1 with a 386 SX 16Mhz. We had computers in school before that, but they were old Apple IIGs.

 

[Saint Nick]

Pre-2000 operating systems sucked for drivers...had to be a software engineer to get anything to work right

 

[bigi]

GEOS

It had windows, just different kind...

 

[cronos]

3.0

 

[Linflas]

DR GEM on an Atari ST
For MS it was 2.0

 

[GTaudiophile]

In regards to home use, I was a Mac user from 1986-1996. My last Mac OS was System 7.5. My first PC OS was Win95.

I have since used Win95, Win95SE, Win98, Win2K, WinXP, and now Win7.

Within the school/work environment, I also worked at one time or another with DOS, Win3.X, and NT4.

For home server use, I have experience with SlackWare, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and now FreeNAS.