A Window Opens and a Window Closes

[Bergerbitz]

Dunno if this has been posted before, but here:

A pleasant trip down memory lame -er- lane. Gawd -- I remember using Windows 1.0 for about a week and then going back to DOS and not looking back until Windows 3.11.

Then there was Windows ME...but like "New Coke" we won't talk about that, will we?

[abneo3sierra]

haha..DOS..almost forget that sometimes...was still pretty young when the change to Windows was made, but alot of the games I played as a child were still DOS or APPLE based.

[hoolaman]

Cool. Someone has too much time on their hands.

[dieseltaylor]

I enjoyed that. The memories. The fight between DRDOS and MSDOS, the playing around with memory to shift mouse drivers etc above Base memory.

I think I have had all bar 2000 and Vista.

[toxic.zen]

that brings me back!

does anybody remember using this:

to surf the "net" i think i still have my old C=64 in my parents basement somewhere...

[dieseltaylor]

My first internet was AOL - boy did that suck. I suppose that was 1993-5 sometime.

Before that was the brilliant Mattelevision, then by the really good AtariST. That was a stonking machine loved by musicians and had a rock solid black and white monitor. Happy days.

[abneo3sierra]

I remember around the same time, thinking AOL just rocked! Talking with far away people, etc haha..."you've got mail" hahaha

[-E]

My first internet was AOL - boy did that suck. I suppose that was 1993-5 sometime.

I quit them when they became AOL (from a merger between PCLink and my AppleLink, running on my IIgs).

As to Windoze... I still miss DOS (probably because I figured out the perfect config.sys that never needed editing for new programs, but more likely from the loss of control of my own system).

[Dietrich]