What was the first version of Windows you ran?

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 17:22:21

For me, it was the runtime version 1, distributed with early DTP programs. My first full version was 3.1...

Glenn · Jul 29, 2009, 17:25:14

The 1st version I installed was 95, but 3.1 or 3.11 was the 1st I used, before that I used Workbench on my Amiga 4000, Windows was a step down

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 17:26:00

Remember all those floppy disks.

Glenn · Jul 29, 2009, 17:26:45

Only last month I got rid of a set of 3.11 floppies

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 17:45:28

I think I may still have a set somewhere, hoarder that I am.

zappaDPJ · Jul 29, 2009, 17:46:27

The first version of Windows I used on a day to day basis was the first version, version 1 which might have been labled v1.3. The first version I bought and used at home was 3.11.

However the first windowed GUI I used was on the Apple's Lisa which was light years ahead of Microsoft, highly innovative, multitasking, cost and arm and a leg, and run like a dog with no legs

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 17:48:15

I remember it well.

Ray · Jul 29, 2009, 18:05:10

3.1 here, I think I've stiil got the disks somewhere.

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 18:05:37

Another hoarder.

Sebby · Jul 29, 2009, 18:09:49

3.11 for workgroups for me, on a 486.

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 18:11:17

I started at a 286, then 386sx, 386, 486 etc. Seperate, optional, maths co-processors you could plug in. Those were the days.

Sebby · Jul 29, 2009, 18:11:44

I do miss the 486. It was kind of uncomplicated technology.

bobleslie · Jul 29, 2009, 18:12:30

I don't.

My first full version was 3.0.

Glenn · Jul 29, 2009, 18:13:43

Uncomplicated, having to manually assign IRQ settings, configuring the BIOS clock speed etc via dip switches......

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 18:14:13

Quote from: Sebby on Jul 29, 2009, 18:11:44
I do miss the 486. It was kind of uncomplicated technology.

A bit like me, really.

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 18:14:31

Quote from: Glenn on Jul 29, 2009, 18:13:43
Uncomplicated, having to manually assign IRQ settings, configuring the BIOS clock speed etc via dip switches......

Happy days.

Simon · Jul 29, 2009, 18:19:44

I'm a newbie. I started with Windows 95, then soon to 98.

Glenn · Jul 29, 2009, 18:21:40

Quote from: Rik on Jul 29, 2009, 18:14:13
A bit like me, really.

Quote from: Rik on Jul 29, 2009, 18:14:31
Happy days.

So are you say that you are an android, configured by dip switches

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 18:24:34

Some say mis-configured.

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 18:25:38

Quote from: Simon on Jul 29, 2009, 18:19:44
I'm a newbie. I started with Windows 95, then soon to 98.

That is a newbie, just a decade or so under the belt, eh Simon?

I've got six, but that's another story...

Lona · Jul 29, 2009, 19:11:26

Our first pc had a 5 1/4 floppy drive and you had to boot it up from the floppy. Can't remember what operating system it was.

Our first 3 1/2 floppy was a 286, then a 386 then first win95 which was an IBM state of the art which I thought of at the time.

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 19:14:05

Probably DOS, Lona.

Den · Jul 29, 2009, 19:37:07

I started with a Comodore 64 then a 128 then a Amiga 1200 Oh how I missed Workbench then on to Windows 95 , 98, XP and at the moment Vista Looking forward to October and Windows 7.

Rik · Jul 29, 2009, 19:39:40

Maybe I should ask for the earliest version of DOS people ran?

talos · Jul 29, 2009, 20:28:05

Sinclair Basic on the ZX81 , Commodore V2 basic on the C64 then windows 3.1 and I also still have the disks and the DOS ones. Oh what happy days