Bill Gates is such a dreamboat in this picture.
Why do I picture Clippy jumping up and down yelling “Don’t forget about me, don’t forget about me!”
I remember having fun editing my autoexec.bat
Did they roll in PARC and Apple?
remember when you got to choose if and when to update your windows version?
The picture of Windows 1.0 from 1985
it says Disk Free Space 30024K
What? They had 30 megabyte hard drives back then?
Whatever happened to Netscape and Java? As I recall, it was all black and white. My son was among the first pioneers to add color.
I am SO not a techie, but always had the latest of whatever it was. Control, alt, delete....LOL, those were the days.
And the wonderful Hamster Dance...some young woman created it, I believe the first moving cartoon that started in black and white and then someone added color. I still watch it once in a great while.
And who could forget “Bob”.
Well, just about everybody.
Wife and I bought our first PC in 1997 when our town first became connected to the internet. Had Windows 95 and Netscape browser. I was 47 at the time and after years of using a typewriter, I had to switch over to using a keyboard and mouse. It was tricky trying to control the mouse. Remember getting up and making a cup of coffee while a photo slowly downloaded over the dialup modem. Most of the photos where huge, people hadn’t learned to resize yet.
I began my computer life with the Commodore 64. Then a DOS box. Windows NT thereafter.
Windows keeps changing, the BSOD stays the same...
I was happy when home computers started becoming available, and when it became possible to put together your own PC clone from parts purchased through mail order I jumped into that. I still have a large collection of vintage home computers from the 70s and 80s along with computers that I put together from parts starting with XT clones.
I have to admit that I really did not get that excited about graphic based interfaces in the beginning. I didn't sense the advantages compared to just setting up a menu system. But as more and more Windows software became available it became obvious that this is where the future was taking us.
A turning point for me was when Adobe Photoshop became available for Windows and I purchased it and a scanner for a desktop computer that I had put together. Until Photoshop I hadn't cared that much about having more and more computing power and storage. But after you have had to repeatedly wait 20 minutes for a filter to alter a large photo, faster processors, more memory, and more hard drive space takes on new meaning.
that picture is beforebill wanted to kill everyone
“Windows, you will believe your 386 will fly like a 286 running DOS!”
(yes, I’m old)
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 memory isn’t what it used to be but many years ago I was taking a college course on computing and the professor brought in a copy of IBM Windows. He said that Gates at first tried to release it through IBM but it didn’t work out so Microsoft was born. His mother was friends with the CEO of IBM so it was a foot in the door, but when I did a search for IBM Windows I couldn’t find any results. Perhaps I dreamed it.
Think they’re giving too much credit to Gates and not enough to the Xerox GUI system (Alto) that Windows is a clone of, which included the mouse.
I remember the guy at the W 95 launch...he went up to the cashier with a big stack of a dozen or so copies ... he was going to make a fortune scalping them.
Wonder how much he netted?🤣