What was the first version of Windows you used?

sorry wrong posting

 

How about MS DOS 1.9, it was still one of Bills OS's

pcbugfixer

 

3.0, 3.1, 3.1 work group

in fact I think they work better that the new versions, except Windows 95 C.

 

Was always a Dos user (DrDos actually), and then when everything was changing I went w/ Win '95. Not a great OS, though the updates certainly helped.

 

Started in the Windows 3 days.
First "computer" was an Atari 800 with a BASIC cartridge. Had a tape drive and a 5 1/4 floppy.

 

Hi Arie,

I tried to respond to your stat but was there more versions before Windows 3.x? I still remembered something like migration from PC-DOS/MS-DOS/Wang to Microsoft Windows and Windows For Workgroup (WFW).

 

First "personal computers" ? Say... 4004, 8008, 8080, Z80, 68000, Atari, Commodore, Apple II, on assembler, for fun. Osborne? Maybe too.

Back to 1977, learning BASIC programmes on PDP-11 and writing ballistic projectile collision defence game in MP/M. Funny.

 

I started on a TRS-80 with the 8" disks for years then bought my own system with 3.1 installed and cost over 3K. It's amazing how fast things have moved along - or maybe I've just slowed way down.

It looked like this:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=243

 

when i was about 13 i can remember going and visiting my sister at work and she showed me the computer she used to work on the HDD was one of those huge open air jobs that required a room of its own they also backed up on 12" Floppies, back then she was faster than the computer at inputing info and had to regularly stop for 15 minutes and wait for it to catch up LOL

 

12" is really new to me. 8" double-side-double-density was the oldest one I used on micro-computers before 5.25 ".

 

yup these would have been single sided low density hence the size the drives for them must a weighed around 5~6 KG flipping huge they were and sounded like tractors the HDD sounded like an aeroplane once the door was open to the room it was in

 

Old Mainframes, 18" x 14" HDD canisters

Yup and back in 1978/79/80 we worked on Univac 77/400 then 77/800 systems the size of a Wardrobe with 3/4' Tape Spools from 12' to 20" (from memory) in diameter and HDD canisters also approx 20" in diameter x 15" high (the blue canisters you see in the pictures and you can see the Tape deck mounting frames on which we did backups, if you visit the old archive site for the info.
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Remington_Rand/SperryUnivac.V77.1978.102646156.pdf

And to day I have 10 bay Tower cases with just one of the HDD 5.25" that has more capacity and is 100+ times faster than the 77/800 systems.

The 1st Desktop I had, I bought as a toy

 

LIFE Before Windows 3.1

I started DOS(disk operating system) b4 3.1 platform (visual basic) you had to boot with floppies(5.5)
make a survey before 3.1..there was windows 3.0 also

The main advantage to windows was multitasking I used to have a bbs using dos only....I remember my first 1gig HD paid like $180.00 for it ...hahaha
now a 1 terabite hd is $80.00....defrag anyone!!

 

I used a proprietrary GUI in the mid 80's before windows came out called G.E.M. It was used to operate an analytical instrument by Perkin-Elmer. (PE-3030, atomic absorption spectrometer) The interface was very similar to what windows would become with mouse control of mutiple windows. I probably still have a set of the 3.5" floppies it came on.

 

I started out with Windows 98 SE. HP Pll
Was nice at the time.

 

Windows 95 as a child back in 1995. WOW!! Nostalgia and I didn't look back ever since.

I went to XP after Windows 95 because of lack of money and we're not interest in computer before going to grade 6 in school (year 2000)

Had XP in 2002 and that was the laptop. built a PC in 2004 and died on 2007. So Vista came in desktop and laptop.

 

The first version of Windows I used was Windows 1.

It came with our family Amstrad 8086 8mhz computer.

Which I still have in the roof.

I was only 5 when we got it!

My favourite game was Commander Keen.

Tom

 

First ever computer I came across was DEUCE, which my employer (English Electric) had for scientific work (in 1958). It was programmed in binary and the results had to be decoded from binary by hand. It was all vacuum tubes and needed a small office building to house it. It had about the same computing power as a typical $30 scientific calculator has now!

First programming language I worked with was Algol, then retrogressed to Honeywell and Singer Link assembly languages. I finally got into real-time Fortran in about 1980.

 

Stone Knives and Bear Claws

Well, actually that was MSDOS 2.0 (I personally can remember MSDOS 1, how about CPM and MPM, wow back in the ice age). Windows 3.0 was the first iteration of the Windows software and was for the most part very easy to use and understand. (What no registry???)