Which was the earlist version of Windows you ever used?

[Lost User]

I had some issues with NT4 drivers and the HAL file(s), otherwise it might have made my top 2. Windows 7 has been entirely stable for me... better than XP, which wasn't terrible. I was a DOS geek before Windows made it big. I was a freaking master tweaking AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files to clean-up the lower 640K. No idea how many friends and neighbors PC's I saved.

[William Kramer]

Microsoft Bob jk, did anyone use this operating system?

[Lost User]

Didja ever play around with the GEM interface? It was kinda cool... in an early 80's sort of way.

[Wendelius]

If I also remember all of those, does it make me old too? I kinda like not remembering if I'm old or not :)

[PIEBALDconsult]

Gem Or do you mean Windows 3.1 ?

[R Giskard Reventlov]

Oh yes. Oh the memories... :)

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[R Giskard Reventlov]

I'm sure I remember playing around with Windows 1 or 2 but not sure - probably an invented memory; definitely used OS2 and Windows 3.

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me

[Steve Maier]

I had a chance to play with Windows 1 and 2 for abit.

Steve Maier

[realJSOP]

Gem I wrote a program in pascal that served as a DOS program launcher - I called it Radius. I was on the verge (days away from signing the papers) of selling it to a software manufacturer, and when Windows came out, and I gave the other party a chance to back out of the deal because I thought Windows was a better idea. They did, of course, and I remained a poor white child.

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[Toli Cuturicu]

Windows 3.1

[LloydA111]

WHAT! You could be rich by now, or at least, slightly famous!

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[Clifford Nelson]

Windows 95. Used MSDOS before that, and also the first Macintosh OS.

[Joe Woodbury]

Windows 386/2.1. Word required it. Where I worked at the time, we got into the Windows 3.0 beta program and received a beta copy three weeks before 3.0 was released. (Days after we received the beta discs, we received the 3.0 disks with a stern reminder of the NDA we'd signed.)

[RaviBee]

Win 3.1. /ravi

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[Dave Kreskowiak]

I completely forgot about GEM! I also remember GEOS when it was ported to PC's. Oh man, the memories of the industry trying different things, trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. Who did things better than the other guy. Those were the days!

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[Dave Kreskowiak]

Yep, you're officially old if you've ever used any of the stuff mentioned. :laugh:

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[Ron Anders]

1.01 on an XT with a V20 chip expanded memory and a 640x480 card.

[Roger Wright]

Windows/286 (2.1x) was the first. Windows 2000 was the first that actually worked.

Will Rogers never met me.

[DattatrayHinge]

Windows95

[Bob Buckingham]

Definitely 1.0; also had the original Lisa's serial numbers 1 and 2, the first Novell Token Ring network ever installed and lots of other cool stuff including an original HP PARC? system with several workstations and printers - the real original windows system. Both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates came by to see this installation. How did this happen? Well, I worked at a research facility.