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.


10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where as I? Playing with my Amstrad 64.

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

Anonymous said...

And I was playing with the PIF Editor. Sigh.
marcm

leelu said...

Working as an IT contractor at the GM Tech Center in Sterling Heights, MI, comfortably away from the nuclear wastelands of Detroit.

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!"

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??

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!

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.

Anonymous said...

Playing "Captain Comic" instead of working.

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

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