I found this fricken awesome website looks just like windows 3.1 and everything works too!!!!

Is the geek in me that's fascinated but had to share LOL

http://www.michaelv.org/

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

 

deja vue, awesome :)

The DOS prompt even recognizes commands like "dir"  and "cd" so you can drill down through the directories.  It can't handle the /w and /p switches on the "dir" command though.
Geeky enough for you?  ~lol~

The liver is evil - It must be punished.

LOL Yes, perfect! Yeah we already tried all those haha

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

 

And here I thought I woke up from that nightmare years ago...

;o)

Laurie

Windows 3.1.  

I still have nightmares about that OS! I used to breath a sigh of  relief every time I want back into DOS.

ohhh, so that's what it looked like with a CRT colour monitor....

Eternal Hobbyist

 

 I may still have an unopened copy of 3.11, though I think I got rid of Windows 286 which might be a real collector's item.

3.x was clunky, when I fired up a program called lview and first saw Lena, I was hooked. I just now discovered that some guys doing image compression research got their test image from a copy of Playboy and she became an imaging icon. She was a guest at the 50th annual Conference of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. 

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken

My 1.44MB floppy was full of GIFs back then.

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I remember that, also the 5 1/4 floppies....LOL

How 'bout the 8" floppies? :lol:

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cheers,

dr geep ... :o]

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Wow! That was way before my time on a computer!

I bought my first computer in early 2000 with Windows 98.

I notice the link above has "MineSweeper" game.  When I was in nursing school in 1995/1996, they had a few computers that we could use to type our papers if we wanted to. It had internet connection and a few games, like MineSweeper.  Not sure what version of Windows though because I didn't know anything about computers or OS or the internet back then. I just went on to type my papers.

I do remember those large floppy disks though from my time back using a word processor  at work back in 1990.

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

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Anyone remember GeoWorks Ensemble, the Wannabe Windows competitor? 

The browser works too!

"Anyone remember GeoWorks Ensemble, the Wannabe Windows competitor?" 

May still have that too :-) GEM was probably better. It has some success on the Atari ST, but died on the PC.

"How 'bout the 8" floppies?"

IIRC, the PC Jr. could use cassette tapes. I know there was (briefly) an interface to use a VCR as data storage device.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken

I have Geoworks 2.0 burned to CD somewhere with all the other programs I had on 3 1/2" floppies from right before I sold my last PC that had a floppy drive in it. It was a fun and undersupported GUI that worked on my old Tandy 1000 in 16 colors when Windows wouldn't.

Win3.0 killed off DESQView.  Linux killed off Inherent.  OS/2 killed off GEOS.  NT killed off OS/2. Win95 killed off Win3.1....

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i remember lview pro my first image program..

go that way really fast.
if something gets in your way
turn

I remember my DECWriter II.

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I remember GEOS on my Commodore 64 (I still have the 5 1/4 floppy disk =P )

Who finds a friend finds a treasure!

"...worked on my old Tandy 1000 in 16 colors when Windows wouldn't."

Yeah, the Tandy machines' BIOS wasn't totally PC compatible IIRC. The DEC Rainbow (and probably others) were the same way.

"i remember lview pro my first image program"

Still around surprisingly.

"I remember my DECWriter II."

DEC made great machines - I grieved the day Compaq bought them out. I imagine they're still some DECWriters, IBM Display Writers(?) and Wang dedicated WP's in service.

"Win3.0 killed off DESQView."

Ah, DESQView. I knew there was one I was forgeting.

Computers will never be quite as much fun as they were back then.
 

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken

jee, all modern stuff out there.

I started on a DEC PDP 11, with my own separate harddisk (5Mb, 24" diameter I guess). Some colleque just arrived from the States with some obscure operating system, designed for handling telephone switches, from AT&T. Unix, they called it, and if I could do something productive with it.

Imaging was about ASCII art, and animation was about making ASCII-Art-Snoopy walk over the operators consoles. 1978. 

Oh, and we had a Cray supercomputer. 64-bit memory banks, up to 4Gb. My simulation programs ran at night only, and lasted a month.

Today, I run a 64-bit system, 4Gb ram, my animations render at night only, and last a month.

There is no real progress in IT.

- - - - - 

Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though

Quote - Today, I run a 64-bit system, 4Gb ram, my animations render at night only, and last a month.

There is no real progress in IT.

Well... there's some progress! :P
You don't need a whole building for that 64bit 4gb computer. :P
A dedicated room helps though! (For the operator, not the computer)

Silke

Quote - "...worked on my old Tandy 1000 in 16 colors when Windows wouldn't."

Yeah, the Tandy machines' BIOS wasn't totally PC compatible IIRC. The DEC Rainbow (and probably others) were the same way.
 

It was better than PC compatible. It supported 16 color graphics while the PC was still only 4 color.

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I remember getting a mainframe that I stuck in my garage, yup 8" floppies..lol  My husband called it the Titanic, took 9 men and a small boy to load and unload it.  I started with the xt, anyone remember the turbo button? Oh man the memories....lol
I still have my copies of dos 3.1, win 3.1 and win 286, as well as Aldus pagemaker and Aldus Photostyler which were bought by Adobe to become Pagemaker and Photohop.
Thanks for makin me feel old...lol

An heavy Altos ended up in a friend's garage.  8" CP/M boot up.

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My first computer ran on Windows 95.  So I've haven't seen windows as basic as that.

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Quote - sniffles over his lost Spectrum 48k and BBC Model A

I had a "Speccy" too.  I remember writing a graphics program for it, complete with **moiré **fills.  I also wrote a MIDI step sequencer for my synth...all in Sinclair BASIC.

The liver is evil - It must be punished.

*"It was better than PC compatible. It supported 16 color graphics while the PC was still only 4 color."* 

CGA could do 16 colors in '81 though apparently the RGBi monitors needed didn't become widely available until '83. The first computer I really used was a TRS-80 Model with TRSDOS. 

"sniffles over his lost Spectrum 48k "

I think I posted a pic of the 2068 (U.S. model Spectrum) emulator before. Here's the Spectrum emu. Unfortunately, I'll never probably get the PC keyboard equivalents figured out. No matter, I do have a real 2068 - the one relic I have saved. Spent way too many hours mastering 'Fighter Pilot.' Sir Clive had a good thing going for a while there. You'll have to Bing the emulator link.

I remember that Sanyo, Victor (adding machines) and who knows else had CP/M machines - incompatible disk formats etc. Then Gary (CP/M) Kildall refused to answer IBM's phone call, Bill Gates didn't and the rest as they say is history.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken

I have a machine purchased in 1993 - a 1992 model - that STILL runs DOS 6/Windows 3.1.  An old (old) IBM PS/1 486 SX with DX co-processor upgrade.

The thing runs like a top.  They made machines a lot better back in those days - didn't know they'd be pushed to the back burner within a couple of quarters in favor of the next newer/faster/better machine.  Of all the machines I have the ones running Win3.1 and Windows 95 seem to be the most solid.  Less disposable.  They still do what they were intended to do.

I remember running a Persistance of Vision raytrace for hours only to find I had the camera in the wrong position.

Still have a shoebox of floppy disks in the backroom too ...

I still have my 486 DX when I need to get nostalgic.  It even has the shareware version of Doom on it to help feel my age.

 I feel REALLY old!  My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20.  3K of RAM, no hard drive, no tape, nothing.  Every time I turned it on I had to program it, and I thought I was living.  When I upgraded to my Commodore 64 I thought that was great.  I could write a few programs in DOS and that was good.  When I upgraded to the GEOS operating system, I was in heaven!

Beth

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