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Question: What was the first version of Windows you used?
Windows 3.x   -203 (37.5%)
Windows 95   -142 (26.2%)
Windows 98   -91 (16.8%)
Windows ME   -10 (1.8%)
Windows NT   -4 (0.7%)
Windows 2000   -3 (0.6%)
Windows XP   -75 (13.9%)
Windows 2003   -4 (0.7%)
Windows Vista   -5 (0.9%)
Windows 7   -2 (0.4%)
Never used Windows   -2 (0.4%)
Windows 2.x   -0 (0%)
Total Members Voted: 531

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« Reply #75 on: June 25, 2009, 02:56:44 PM »
Many people cry but they built a ton of rock solid machines back in the day...
In my mind they did it right.
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« Reply #76 on: June 25, 2009, 10:43:21 PM »
My first Windows was Windows 3.1.1

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« Reply #77 on: June 25, 2009, 10:47:52 PM »
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they built a ton of rock solid machines back in the day...

I remember one that they farmed out to India, it wasn't so great.  I think it was an Advantage 486sx
I got a great price on them, they were about $ 300 less.  I sold all 31 in about two weeks.  By the end of the month they were all going back to AST.  They were the first and only ones that I'd seen fail, well, except for old age.
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« Reply #78 on: June 26, 2009, 08:49:30 AM »
My first computer had Windows 95 on it, then we got 98 all the way up to Win7.
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« Reply #79 on: June 29, 2009, 03:09:05 AM »
Windows 3.X..running on an old AST Advantage machine, 486DX w/ turbo button..woo.  I remember using AmiPro (before Word), and paint was my only source of entertainment.  You had to tweak your config.sys file for memory adjustments.  Ever put an autoexec.bat command in the autoexec.bat file, then startup...lol.  Good times.
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« Reply #80 on: June 29, 2009, 03:23:10 AM »
Quote from: mrlu81 on June 29, 2009, 03:09:05 AM
Windows 3.X..running on an old AST Advantage machine, 486DX w/ turbo button..woo.  I remember using AmiPro (before Word), and paint was my only source of entertainment.  You had to tweak your config.sys file for memory adjustments.  Ever put an autoexec.bat command in the autoexec.bat file, then startup...lol.  Good times.

Hey, I remember those turbo buttons! My 386 had one of those.
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« Reply #81 on: June 29, 2009, 03:49:53 AM »
turbo always cracked me up
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« Reply #82 on: June 29, 2009, 09:51:37 AM »
Those really didn't help that much did they?
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« Reply #83 on: June 29, 2009, 10:44:16 AM »
Quote from: macdad- on June 29, 2009, 09:51:37 AM
Those really didn't help that much did they?

I think it did a bit. I don't think Doom ran properly on my 386 unless it was on. I don't really remember. It was 18 years ago at least.  :D
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« Reply #84 on: June 29, 2009, 01:23:02 PM »
Quote from: macdad- on June 29, 2009, 09:51:37 AM
Those really didn't help that much did they?

Actually they did help for a lot of older games when you needed to slow the system down so they didn't go what seemed like a million miles an hour.
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« Reply #85 on: June 29, 2009, 01:27:39 PM »
best for older software really.
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« Reply #86 on: June 29, 2009, 03:16:43 PM »
Programmers would also use them to see how they would run on a slower computer.  If I remember right it either disabled the math co-processor or the cache.
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« Reply #87 on: June 29, 2009, 09:10:37 PM »
Believe it or not, I still have an IBM thinkpad that has windows 3.1 on it.  Tee hee.  Another one, exact same model, has windows 95! ;D
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« Reply #88 on: June 29, 2009, 09:22:35 PM »
Quote from: paudashlake on June 29, 2009, 09:10:37 PM
Believe it or not, I still have an IBM thinkpad that has windows 3.1 on it.  Tee hee.  Another one, exact same model, has windows 95! ;D

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Doesn't work very well anymore- what with all the acquired snapped off bits...
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« Reply #89 on: June 29, 2009, 09:38:51 PM »
I don't even know where they are any more... :(
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