This is How Microsoft Introduced Windows 1.0

[hari_41]

kewl.. so much changes 2day in windows

 

[NightLight]

this would look neat as a widget on a smartphone 😛

 

[ahmednewten]

this article must be in museum

 

[dimar]

Amazing 🙂
I got my first PC with DOS, but the first windows I installed was 3.11.
I remember installing 95 when it came out 🙂

 

[deweycd]

I remember playing with Windows 3.11 for workgroups, great version of windows, worked like a charm.

 

[Hupiscratch]

I was on a 2 years countdown to my birth.

 

[teknic111]

This was the year of Marty McFly!

 

[Guest]

I was there. Having been at Stanford, and used the Alto and seen the predecessors to Sun's stuff, I wasn't that impressed. Tiled windows suck now and they suck then. What was interesting, from a historical persepective, was the number of company-proprietary (HP, DEC, etc) hardware designs demonstrated.

 

[eddieroolz]

1985. I was not even alive here yet.

Hard to believe we've come this far in merely 25 years.

 

[hok]

looks like a mac to me...

 

[x3style]

1985. Just think about that. What were you doing?

I was busy Being Born!

 

[rhino13]

This does say "bipnap" right?

 

[gtvr]

You kids - I was just starting college then!

Mac ruled home-computing GUI at the time. 8)

 

[davewolfgang]

Nov of 85 - I was a senior in High School. I knew how to write simple apps on an Apple IIc.

Going thru some boxes a few weeks ago, I came across my old Floppy holder. Three floppies with DOS 6.1. SIX floppies with Windows 3.11.

And a WHOPPING 15 floppies with Windows 95 on them. I also have the 19 floppy version too.

 

[wishmaster12]

now all the newbies can watch dvds on their laptops on the bus or at school

 

[e1m0]

The first computer my family got was a Dell Dimension running Windows 95. I was about 4 years old when we got it. One day my little brother was sitting in front of it watching tv, and the screen saver turned on. I then yelled, "Mommy! Sam broke the computer!" Only to get the reply, "yeah, thats a screen saver. Move the mouse a little." Haha, it didn't take me long to screw with eveery little setting in win95... as a four year old. I knew i choose a good career path.

 

[awood28211]

[citation][nom]sinsear[/nom]Probably more like 160x120... the pixels are as big as your thumb.[/citation]

Well really it would have depended on your gfx card. Mono was 720x350, CGA was 640x200.

 

[Tmanishere]

Check out the original Mac OS in 1984. It was way beyond what Microsoft had at the time.

 

[Mr Pizza]

Why can't I have a clock like that on my superbar (windows 7.. bar)

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]rhino13[/nom]This does say "bipnap" right?[/citation]
Bitnap, whatever that is.

 

[xantek24]

we are the same age....we grew up together...we had our good times playing against the other team and taught me how to make school projects easier...we dominated 2003 with XPerience....then one year you wanted to look cool but you were getting lazy...we had our fights and laughs, ups and downs....but what hurt me at that time,you didnt want to play nice with my toys....eventually, you got your act together, clean and sober and your work is very efficient now....Windows 7 was my idea....

 

[cookoy]

those were the bad old days. to be productive i'd avoid using windows! happily no BSOD yet.

 

[jaghpanther]

Makes me want to break out 3.11. Now if I could only find a 8" floppy drive at my local re-sale shop...

 

[JPindur]

Bitnap??

 

[treefrog07]

If I recall correctly, HDDs were rare to non-existent on pcs then; everything had to be loaded from a 5.25" or a 3.5" floppy. By 1986 I had a Sharp laptop (monochrome) with two 3.5" HD floppy drives. It had an internal modem and only cost ~$600.