Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Windows 3.1

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Windows 3.1

1995 - WIN 3.1

Where were you? Bill Clinton was just getting to know Monica in the Biblical sense.

Rodger the Real King of France 3/12/2014 09:43:00 AM 10 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
Argus Hamilton

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Anonymous said...: Where as I? Playing with my Amstrad 64.; 3/12/14, 12:09 PM
El Jefe said...: Ahhh, the Hot Dog Stand color scheme. Used to change to that whenever someone was foolish enough to leave their computer for more than a minute. WfW v3.11 was my favorite 'cause it was 'networked' and you could play hearts against your coworkers all day long; 3/12/14, 12:21 PM
Anonymous said...: And I was playing with the PIF Editor. Sigh.
marcm; 3/12/14, 12:22 PM
leelu said...: Working as an IT contractor at the GM Tech Center in Sterling Heights, MI, comfortably away from the nuclear wastelands of Detroit.; 3/12/14, 12:32 PM
Hazy Dave said...: My five year old son came home from kindergarten and reported "I showed Mrs. Northey how to get out of windows."

Wife & I: " ? " (Okay, first floor classroom, but...)

Son: "Alt-F4!"; 3/12/14, 2:11 PM
Guy S said...: Hmmmm.....was at my last duty station before retiring...patching together puters for our "in-house" network. Also flying UAV's and playing Simcity!! ... or was it Leisure Suit Larry??; 3/12/14, 4:47 PM
gadfly said...: In 1995,I operated my computer from the command line C: prompt which was a much faster way to load programs than the kludgy, memory-eating Windows 3 interface.

Back then Windows was an afterthought mounted on top of DOS. and face it, those 1995 era PC's were really slow and most internet connections were dial-up with no GUI. Remember the command driven Lotus 123 spreadsheet and WordPerfect, the ultimate word processor? Those were the days!; 3/13/14, 12:25 AM
Anonymous said...: Reading bidders comments on the National Science Foundation RFP (awarded that spring) for effectively privatizing the internet. WFW was already out in version 3.1 at the time.; 3/13/14, 2:48 AM
Anonymous said...: Playing "Captain Comic" instead of working.; 3/13/14, 1:53 PM
Anonymous said...: I was listening to a computer salesman ask me why I "needed" a 500MB hard drive... when I was building databases greater than 2GB with Paradox 4.0.

Kim; 3/13/14, 3:52 PM

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Windows 3.1

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