Posted on 11/20/2020 8:31:22 PM PST by dayglored
The PC revolution started off life 35 years ago this week. Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985, to succeed MS-DOS. It was a huge milestone that paved the way for the modern versions of Windows we use today. While Windows 10 doesn’t look anything like Windows 1.0, it still has many of its original fundamentals like scroll bars, drop-down menus, icons, dialog boxes, and apps like Notepad and MS paint.
Windows 1.0 also set the stage for the mouse. If you used MS-DOS then you could only type in commands, but with Windows 1.0 you picked up a mouse and moved windows around by pointing and clicking. Alongside the original Macintosh, the mouse completely changed the way consumers interacted with computers. At the time, many complained that Windows 1.0 focused far too much on mouse interaction instead of keyboard commands. Microsoft’s first version of Windows might not have been well received, but it kick-started a battle between Apple, IBM, and Microsoft to provide computing to the masses.
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Twenty years later, all that clutter is gone. I have a very thin MacBook Pro, a couple iPads and an iPhone. Also a NAS (Network Attached Storage) unit with 8TB of local storage. This is where I stream my massive music collection from. Also a high speed Internet hookup with a Roku box that drives my one large screen TV - no cable TV whatsoever. Wireless speakers throughout the house.
My only Windows device these days is the Lenovo laptop that work issued me.
You ought to watch the YouTube channel “LGR”, he’s a guy my age (mid-30’s) who does a lot of old builds of DOS machines and other 80s and 90s tech. If you’re looking to throw stuff out, consider donating it to his channel. He has a video on his channel where he and some other guys dug through a warehouse full of old PC stuff, “American Pickers” style, so he’s down for that sort of thing too, I think.
I started out on win3.11 back in 92 at my first employer ..
golly im getting old.
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