What was the first version of Windows you ran?

[Rik]

Oh how I remember that, and XyWrite.

[esh]

I just found my DOS 3.22 disk still works. That makes me happy though it really shouldn't.

[Sebby]

It's the little things in life...

[Rik]

[esh]

Interestingly I've just had to check a 16-bit Visual Basic program I wrote in 1994 works on Windows 7, as a company pretty much relies upon it.

It does.

Fortunately.

[Sebby]

[Rik]

All take a deep breath and let it out slowly.

[Broadback]

I am fascinate, that al you peeps can remember so far back, I can't
All I can tell you is that the first computer I worked on was in 1967, and English Electric Leo Marconi System 4:50, which was a copy of the RCA machine. As for software it had its own.

[Rik]

That beats me by 15 years.

[esh]

Haha, yes a bit older than me. I was at the electronics research lab at the Roland Institute in Boston for a while, and they were all older guys boasting and comparing their RF burns and so on, talking about iron core memory which used magnetic properties of the material. Unfortunately, you had to apply sufficient field onto the iron cores (due to hysterisis) to find out whether it was '1' or '0', in the process changing the status of the memory, and thus had to reset the 'iron bit' back to what it was after you'd read it.

I can only imagine the amount and heat of noise those kind of 'computers' must have made.

[Rik]

I read that they consumed enough electricity to power the Blackpool Illuminations.

[Tacitus]

All I can tell you is that the first computer I worked on was in 1967, and English Electric Leo Marconi System 4:50, which was a copy of the RCA machine. As for software it had its own.

Not sure about it being a copy of an RCA machine as I always thought the original Leo was made for Joe Lyons the caterers during the 1950s.   Leo = Lyons Electronic Office.  It was then bought up by English Electric which was based at Kidsgrove.  EE later became ICL.

[Rik]

Whatever happened to the Corner Houses. I can remember being taken there as a treat.

[Tacitus]

Whatever happened to the Corner Houses. I can remember being taken there as a treat.

Obviously you're old enough to remember the 'nippies'......

[Rik]

I am, Tac. The Corner Houses seemed to disappear almost overnight, but at the time, I wasn't taking much interest.

[Broadback]

Not sure about it being a copy of an RCA machine as I always thought the original Leo was made for Joe Lyons the caterers during the 1950s.   Leo = Lyons Electronic Office.  It was then bought up by English Electric which was based at Kidsgrove.  EE later became ICL.

You are correct about the Leo, though it was a bit before my time. When I joined it was English Electric Leo Marconi, whic as you say progressed to ICL then Fujitsu, which it still is. ICL was named in the computer press as It Can't Last. The 4.50 was the first of the System Four series, I worked on the first one that came to Kidsgrove, it was actually badged as an RCA machine. We got their amendments for a long time. One that tickled us was to say that they no longer recommended that we used Pepsodent Toothpaste to clean the gold contacts on the PCbs as it removed the gold over a period of time. We all knew that, after all:
"You will wonder where the yellow went, when you use Pepsodent" 

[Rik]

Hoover beats as it sweeps as it cleans...

[Simon_idnet]

The first version of Windows that I tried was 3.0 running under a DOS emulator (VP/ix) on Xenix which was a Unix port written by .... Microsoft (yes, it's true). On an Apricot 386. It was rather slow!
S

[Rik]

Ah, so you were a late developer, Simon.

[Simon_idnet]

All these old-timer antics are just way too far before my time ;-)
S

[Rik]

Just because you've still got hair and your own teeth, Simon.

[Broadback]

Just because you've still got hair and your own teeth, Simon.

Well I still have my own hair and teeth, though both hair and teeth are a bit thinner. Also why does your hair go whiter as you grow older but your teeth grow darker? One of life's mysteries I guess!   

[Rik]

For that matter, why does hair growth transfer from the head to the nose and ears? 

[Broadback]

That is easy Rik, it is our friend gravity, which is why your shape goes pear shaped as well!

[Rik]

It still doesn't explain the teeth, though.