Old Windows splash screens

The true win-geek will appreciate this link.... splash screens from Windows 1.0 thru Vista....
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-61343.html
Ahhhh, the nostalgia

hopperdave2000

 

LOL, I remember having to install DOS from floppies before I could install win 3.3! I have earlier memories, of DOS, 256k hard drives and stuff, but I am trying to forget them...

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My first experience with a pc was learning how to use Windows 95, then a 98, then XP, and now im learning Vista. Good to see those old screens once more.

 

I'm right there with Bladesofhalo. My experience with Windows was pretty much the same - with just a tiny bit of exposure to Win 3.1 on my dad's old PC.

Nice link!

 

Damn! Now I do feel old. I remember the Good Ol' Days before Windows and even before Microsoft. I've still got a 5 1/4 inch single sided low density floppy with CP/M OS.

 

Good old Win3.0 That was my first Windows experience........ I love the NT Workstation 3.x with the tribal groove on it


~C

 

I started teching with Win 3.1

Having to network it thru a parallel port still makes me shudder!

 

Man! I can still remember the days of BASIC, saving your files onto audio tapes, the whopping big air-conditioned room at my dad's work with the the whopping big mainframe (that occasionally did the non-work related task of printing ASCII art for us kidlets!) and learning punch cards at school. What an advance it was to use two 5 1/4 inch floppies - one as the program disk and the other to save your work to. And you think YOU feel old, Yargwel!! Question is; which of us is older and which got exposed to this fascinating medium youngest??

 

I've used them all.

I used Windows 3.1 first, didn't make it back till I tracked down original versions of 1.1 and 2.03 and hardware it would run on for my Cisco teacher (as a geek gift).

 

Ahh 3.1 how we miss you. I remember it well, 3.1, doom and a vale system that was about a metre high and that had a cpu clock speed doubler on the front. I was rocking my system could do 66Mhz at top speed. Oh yeah the power. Also, an o/s that actually came on floppies. When did it all change?

 

I saved a few for my screensaver.
That will really confuse any rubberneckers when MS Windows 3.11 for Workgroups pops up, for example. Bazza

 

Well I used punch cards when I was at University and punched paper tape a year or two before that. :dood

 

Wish I had dollars for every box of punched cards I joggled, way back then.
As long as they didn't deduct for the punch card jams. Bazza

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Lets see, I have used punched cards (the software was sent over 200 miles to be compiled on a main frame) in college, paper tape, toggle switches, audio tape, low density single sided floppies (look ma, 180K), magazines (typed in software), 10 Meg 3 feet wide Diablo drives, memory sticks (looked like chewing gum sticks). Nowdays being able to carry several gigs in a disc is pure luxury.

I have owned and used TRS80 Model I w/ tiny BASIC and 4 K RAM, TRS80 Model III, PET, Sinclair w/ 16K ram cartridge, Altair 6800 w/ 1K RAM, C64, C128, C128D (I love Commodores), XT (8086), 286, 386SX (yes Virginia, it sucked), 386, 486, K6, K6/2 (200Mhz to 550Mhz), Duron, and Athlon. Anything 8086 and above I made myself, never was tempted to buy premade. Sad part is, I still own most of it, up in the attic.

 

I also started off on a Tandy Model 1 with cassette drive.
Then to the Tandy 4P portable. Guess that's where I started to prefer laptops, over desktops.

Then through just about all models of Intel CPU machines from 286, 386, 386SX, 486, P1, P2, P3, etc. Bazza

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