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Dinosaur Sightings: Windows splash screens from Windows 1.01 to Windows Vista

I've used Windows 3.1, NT 4.0 Worksation & Server and every version since then.

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matradley

wanboy67 wrote:

Dinosaur Sightings: Windows splash screens from Windows 1.01 to Windows Vista

I've used Windows 3.1, NT 4.0 Worksation & Server and every version since then.

Brings back memories. I remember using Windows 3.1.

networker050184

95 was first for me.... I feel young!!!!!

NinjaBoy

My first MS based PC was running DOS 5 with Windows 3.1

Windows has really come along way.

-Ken

BeaverC32

Windows 95 was my first Windows experience...although I seem to remember playing Duke Nukem on my friend's Windows 3.1 machine.

bighornsheep

DOS 6.22 was the OS on my first computer, but that's not really Windows.

Windows 3.1 was my first, and I've used every version since except for NT 4 (couldn't play games on it

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Webmaster

2.x on an 64-shades of gray monitor. I think I still have the 5.25" installation floppies catching dust somewhere.

Not even in my dreams would I have imagined back then the company behind Windows would someday link and recommend my website: www.microsoft.com/learning/community/default.mspx

royal

My first Windows-based computer was Windows 95. I had a friend who had Windows 3.1 which I used occasionally. Windows 95 was when I really got into computing and interested in computers. The good ole' AOL 3.0 days running off of a 2400 baud modem.

Mishra

I started with DOS and sorta moved into Windows 3.11. I hated 3.11 for the most part except solitaire so I still mostly used DOS until 95.

keenon

windows 3.11 solitaire rocked on it

APA

My trusty compaq preario 486 with Windows 3.1...... Ahh those were some days playing PIPEDREAM!!!!

None of this solitaire crap

blargoe

3.0 on a Packard Bell

KGhaleon

Windows 3.x, back then I used to play King's quest 6 and some other old games. I remember spending part of the night waiting for my modem to finish downloading a video game file...and it was quite pathetic. Nothing but pixels and moving a block around in what was suppose to be a dungeon. <_<

It was a family machine, so my family bought me my own PC for my birthday back in...I think 1996? It had a Pentium MMX processor and a copy of Riven that I played like mad.

When I was packing my things and preparing to move out of our house, I had the duty to take our old PC and throw it out. It made me sad to say goodbye. ;_;
Now I wish I had kept it as a piece of history...though it'd take up room in my crowded apartment.

KG

JDMurray

Back in 1987 I got a copy of Windows 1.0 from somewhere about the time that Windows 2.0 was released. I ran 1.0 on my Polo Microsystems PC clone and I was not very impressed with what I saw. It was much slower and more difficult to use than my favorite DOS shell, Norton Commander. I didn't think about MS Windows again until Windows 286 was released and I had to learn about writing code for it. I didn't start using Windows as my primary OS until v3.0 was released in 1990. That was also the same year I gave up UNIX programming and went entirely to Windows.

jbaello

I did not had a hard drive back then, so I use DOS as my operating system :P

Plantwiz

Apple IIe - 1983....then DOS 3; DOS 3.3 and finally Windows 3.1 91 or 92

My Apple I configured to run DOS so I didn't need to go back to the computer labs in College. Was a shame to part with that whole thing

4 drive...2 for Apple; 2 for IBM/PC. Green mono-tone monitor....ah....the good days

I finally decided to get something 'smaller' and upgraded into PB with Windows (see above).

royal

Well, if we're talking about non-Windows then, my first computer was a Macintosh Classic. I went straight from that to Windows 95.

RussS

3.1 - but I did have an Amiga for a few weeks many years previously

Smallguy

3.1 was my first windws experience

but my first computer was a Vic 20 with a cassette tape drive.... it rocked

ajs1976

My first Windows experience was with Windows 95. Before that I used NeXT and OS2 Warp systems in the computer labs at school. When I worked on some Windows 3.1 systems, I was amazed at how much they looked like NeXT and OS2 Warp.

ilcram19

well i would say windows 3.1 but i actually work in dos too back in 1994 i was learning qbasic and some other programming software, 3.1 really didnt cough my eye until windows 95 and doom

i was still trying to learn the internal an external dos commands which i never actually used

Netstudent

95 was my first. I'm a youngen as well.

rossonieri#1

Webmaster wrote:

Not even in my dreams would I have imagined back then the company behind Windows would someday link and recommend my website: www.microsoft.com/learning/community/default.mspx

wow - thats new to me,
CONGRATULATION to TECHEXAMS

binarysoul

Windows 3.0

bikeandski

Windows 3.1 but my first computer was a Commodore 64

Rearden

Windows 3.1 First PC was a 286