Posted on 11/20/2020 8:31:22 PM PST by dayglored
i don’t recall those- but i remember being excited when windows XP came along- We went from windows ME (Yuck) to XP and thought it was just the bees knees- We resisted making the switch to 7 later on, but then got to like it quite a bit when we did-
My neighbour got into windows 2000- then eventually got XP- He liked 2000 quite a bit- We never got that version-
Windows certainly has gone through a lot of growing pains- Wish they had stuck with 7 personally- or at least gave folks option of continuing with it and developing it alongside 10- I still use 7 as my gaming computer and photography/photoshop- but now use linux- as my daily online os- i dual boot now- best of both worlds-
Do have laptop with windows 10- meh- it’s ok i guess- but only because i make it look like 7
Windows 1, Windows 2, and Windows 3.x were not true operating systems. They were “operating environments” that sat on top of DOS, which was a true OS.
Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME also were all still siting "on top of DOS". What exactly is your point?
but you could upgrade or roll back totally on your own desire or need. at any time. so you could make sure stuff you wanted was saved first
Windows 95 was on floppies too. I think 98 was the first to be CDROM only...
I never installed 95 much on floppies, I was a netadmin. I found creative ways to get machines connected to ethernet well enough with a clean hard drive, and would just copy all the install files over. Usually, installation was painless then (or, relatively).
i remember a college guy i knew, he couldn’t get a computer dealer to sell him a 100mb drive because ‘no one will ever fill up a 100mb drive’
that picture is beforebill wanted to kill everyone
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I think it was windows 95 that had like a hundred floppies.
Actually, the magic of Win2K was integrating Win9x plug and play (or plug and pray as we used to say) with the NT kernel.
It was not a small feet. NT kernel was meant for business applications where the hardware would be specified form birth to death.
Win2K revolutionized this idea -— and it really was the bomb at the time.
Not that NT4 was bad, but it had a lot of crutches to get the consumer hardware to work with it at the time.
Yes... I think it was close to 20. I have my old 95 cdroms still, I could actually pop one in but I am lazy :) And I don’t want to inhale a pound of dust digging them out.
I keep around old media in case I want to bring a ancient machine back to life. And I have a few ancient machines as well!
3.3
“Windows, you will believe your 386 will fly like a 286 running DOS!”
(yes, I’m old)
Still run XP on a laptop that never sees the net. Not a gamer so it’s no big and also I’m not dealing with modern data slurping nightmares.
My real first at home computer was a 386 Dx 40.
Leisure Suit Larry was a hoot.
Yep. It takes time to learn to be evil.
Back around 1983, I met my late wife who worked for a company out of Portland Oregon. She was working in the Houston office and sometimes had to work late. She was instrumental in setting up the company network and told me they had a game on the puter “the main frame was in Portland” that very few new about. The name of the game was Star Trek. Oh it had all the right characters, the Romulans, Klingons, the Federation. And you had to navigate through the universe fighting them, again, no mouse, just commands. She told me that whatever I did, don’t ever “roll out”. Well, the Klingons and the Romulans had me cornered, no matter what sector I travelled they followed. I was given many options, fire photons and other weapons or, I could just “Roll Out” and escape. Well I did, and when I did, it shut down the main frame, all the terminals went blank. Needles to say, after several telephone calls to the right people over the course of a few hours, they got the computer main frame back up. I never played that game again.
My roomie in the AF dorm had an Apple IIE. We played a text game of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It was fun but you had better read the book to get through it.
Exactly.
I can remember ribbing my boss at the time that real computer users didn’t need a mouse.
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