What was the first version of Windows you ever used?

[tedrodai]

I'm curious if the younger generation has ever even seen Win 3.x.

What do you consider the younger generation?

3.1 here too. Don't remember a whole lot of it besides playing some random games on it as a kid.

Yep, me too.

 

[IAteYourMother]

3.1 - played this game all the time on my dad's old work laptop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Mountain!

 

[Linflas]

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:

Heh I found some paper tape from a computer class I took in my senior year in a box of junk I had packed away not long ago.

 

[Krazy4Real]

3.11 for workgroups

 

[piasabird]

I think it was windows 3.1? However, even windows 95 still ran off of DOS. I also had a Tandy 1000A around 1979-1980. I can remember playing this castle game in DOS.
Look Desk.
On the desk are some glasses.
Get Glasses.
Vampire is blocking your path.
Show Cross.
Vampire leaves.

 

[Bird222]

I know I used 3.1. I may have used 3.0. Does anyone have a pic of 3.0 or 1.0?

 

[Mark R]

3.1 was the first version of Windows I used.

My prior computer didn't wasn't MS or Intel, it used an 8 MHz ARM (then called Acorn RISC machines) CPU and their own OS.

If you think that looks like NeXTSTEP, you'd be right. It's not NeXTSTEP, but it was an obscure OS produced by Acorn, called Arthur. NeXTSTEP "borrowed" a number of revolutionary features from it - notably the "dock" at the base of the screen.

 

[BurnItDwn]

My dad we went from an Apple IIe to a 486 DX 33mhz with 4mb of ram. We had windows 3.1.

One of my uncles had a 286 and I experienced Dos 5 with Windows 3.1 a good amount of time earlier then when we actually had one)

Never messed with Windows 2.x or 1.x ...

 

[mattpegher]

First computer I used was a commodore 64, which was DOS, in 1982. It was several years latter that I even got a computer that could run windows.

 

[MustangSVT]

ahh the memories of trying to get little more memory by tweaking files more than playing games. fun times. esp when I finally got xwing to run!

http://www.michaelv.org/

try it!

 

[bobdole369]

Bah ver 3.0 and 3.1 should be separate. Totally different product. I used 3.0 first.

 

[SparkyJJO]

3.1 here. Ran a lot of stuff in DOS 6.22 however since many of the games my brothers and I had wouldn't run under windows.

 

[Shawn]

Bah ver 3.0 and 3.1 should be separate. Totally different product. I used 3.0 first.

What was so different about them?

 

[irishScott]

3.1 for me, would play Oregon Trail 2, Gizmos and Gadgets, Reader Rabbit 2,3 and Logical Journey of the Zoombinis for hours.

 

[Rubycon]

ahh the memories of trying to get little more memory by tweaking files more than playing games. fun times. esp when I finally got xwing to run!

http://www.michaelv.org/

try it!

I liked QEMM the best. Better than 386Max and far better than MS' Memmaker.
Quarterdeck Quickboot (bypass BIOS on warm boot) was outstanding especially for us SCSI users.

 

[dank69]

I liked QEMM the best. Better than 386Max and far better than MS' Memmaker.
Quarterdeck Quickboot (bypass BIOS on warm boot) was outstanding especially for us SCSI users.

Hehe, I remember QEMM and Memmaker, good times.

 

[alkemyst]

I played with 1.0 and 2.0, but 3.11WFW was my first jump....DOS 6.22 really was adequate until that point.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

First computer I used was a commodore 64, which was DOS, in 1982. It was several years latter that I even got a computer that could run windows.

Err -- what?