What was the first version of Windows you used?

3.1 and liked it.

 

What, no 2.0

I suppose I'll have to go with 3.1 then... By the way I still have a full set of 5.25" floppies if anyone is interested

Edit:

Seriously the first version I used was Windows for Workgroups (3.11) but I have used earlier versions since.

 

3.0 and I still have an old 386 Box with 3.11 on it although havn't dragged it out in years to see if it still works

 

Same here, 3.0, in a BSR 386SX/16. After awhile I wanted to increase the RAM but it was $50 for each 1-meg chip. I couldn't afford it.

 

Although I played around a bit with 3.1, my first computer had Windows 95.

 

2.0 - amber & black screen - circa 1985 or so.....

Had a big clock that was neat to watch......

 

Replaced with 4.01 though I'm not sure if that was ever released in the states.

If we start talking about DOS the earliest I recall using regulary was 3.3 but I could go back further to CP/M days

I feel old now, thanks Arie.

 

Ahh, the original dual processor computer (6510/Z80) or was it. My first CP/M system was the BBC model B (6502) with torch (Z80a) addon

 

I remember using DOS but the first time I ever used windows was Win 98. My first computer had 3.1 on it but I had it replaced with Win 95.

 

First computer I worked on was a big blue box with a high speed card punch. The operating system was a big peg board with individual wires you plugged in to direct the bits to the proper registrator. The first Windows was 3.11.

 

I started personal computing when Commodore introduced the Amiga 500 in 1987, although I had been using my company's computers (which used a proprietary OS) for ten years before that.

In 1997 I bought my first PC, which came with Win95 installed. Friends were still using PCs with Win3.1, so I quickly became familiar with that OS, as well.

 

Started with Apple DOS and Apple ProDOS. Got a job that was using PCs, so started with DOS 3.3 (and on to 4.0 and other versions). Windows 386 was the first version of Windows I had used.

 

Well, yeah, if we're going to get into DOS - I guess DOS 2.0. Up until XP, I could still use DOS commands to fix problems (and I still have Kris Jamsa's excellent guide to DOS 5 on my bookshelf), but I don't know how much of that would still work today. And before that, of course, the Sinclair...

And before that, the punch cards rattling through a huge IBM sorter. How far back do we wanna go, guys?

 

I too had a Sinclair but I bought it after I picked up a TI 99/4A from JC Pennys, when I rotated back to the US in '83. I bought my first 8086 in '85, but I was using DOS on it. Man, I was in fat city when I saved up and bought a couple 32mb hard drives for it. )))