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    The First Windows Review Ever

    25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
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    Image of madog madog
    01/22/09

    In reply to The First Windows Review Ever
    I'm almost in tears because we had to have a technician come out and install a PS/2 (I think?) mouse into our DOS machine 16 years ago. Good lord that was awful, and I believe he was there for at least an hour trying to set it up properly.


    But I do remember we used to have some kick ass games for it. I remember paying $50 for some game that today a 3 year old in India could make between bottle feedings.

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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    01/22/09

    In reply to The First Windows Review Ever
    and I shall exact the "ballmer fear" every time my [future] children misbehave


    that or Walt Mossberg. Haven't decided who represents the immortal Satan more.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/22/09

    In reply to The First Windows Review Ever
    Yes, folks. That picture is an Apple II with a graphics card allowing it to run Windows. And the picture is from 1983.
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    Image of mewyn dyner mewyn dyner
    01/22/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:


    It was a DOS card, it had an 8088 or 8086 CPU, video card, floppy controller, memory, etc. Essentially it was a full IBM PC XT on a card that you put into an Apple IIe.


    Everything with the Apple II series was incompatible with the IBM PC at that time, even the floppies.

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    Image of dingus dingus
    01/22/09

    @mewyn dyner: Applied Engineering Transwarp. I lusted after one back in the day. And I think that's an Apple /// monitor on an Apple //e just like in Lost.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/23/09

    @dingus: Which means that in 1983, the editors of BYTE Magazine were watching LOST.
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    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    01/22/09

    In reply to The First Windows Review Ever
    My dad was a UNIX salesman and I remember all versions of that POS operating system. I also remember windows 95 being huge. CompUSA had a banner covering one side of the store announcing it was available. 1 aisle with roughly 2000 copies and it sold out within the day.
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    Image of cassettiespagetie cassettiespagetie
    01/22/09

    In reply to The First Windows Review Ever
    Why is there an Apple II In the picture ?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/22/09

    @cassettiespagetie: See below.


    The photo is from the December 1983 issue of BYTE Magazine. It's an Apple II with a card installed to allow it to run Windows. The Macintosh had not yet been released.

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/22/09

    @cassettiespagetie: Boot Camp v.001
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    Image of aliskaba aliskaba
    01/22/09

    In reply to The First Windows Review Ever
    HOLY SHIT! REVERSI!!! MOTHER OF GOD! SELL MY HOUSE! I WANT IT!!!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/22/09

    @aliskaba: Wow. Steve Balmer of the past is exactly the same as Steve Balmer of the future.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/22/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: ... and by the future, I mean the present.
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    01/22/09

    In reply to The First Windows Review Ever
    It wasn't long ago that computers were no. fun. at. all.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/22/09

    @The Lab: You didn't try Gorillas on QBasic?
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    Image of mike3141 mike3141
    11/10/08

    In reply to 25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
    "For IBM and Compaq Personal Computers"


    Not a lot of market selection back theb huh??

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/10/08

    @mike3141: I think the real question is whether it would run on PC-DOS, IBM's version of DOS.
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    Image of Dyltone Dyltone
    11/10/08

    In reply to 25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
    I thought 25 years ago today was when some guy taught a band to play...
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    Image of duckballs duckballs
    11/10/08

    @Dyltone: that was only 20 years ago. The've been going in and out of style ever since, but they are still garunteed to make you smile.


    I nead to get high, where are my friends?

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/10/08

    @duckballs: Actually, it was twenty years ago today forty years ago.


    So in a way, three score years ago....

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/10/08

    In reply to 25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
    I was only a year old. Awwwwwwww
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/10/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: *pulls out a second shoe*
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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    11/10/08

    @shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: WAIT... how are you gonna walk home?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/10/08

    @shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: I'm not sure I get it. And that terrifies me. :O
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    11/10/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Oh, wait, I get it now.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/10/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: That's why I drink ensure and pop my ginkgo biloba ;}~


    *waits for reply by even older Gizmodians*

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/10/08

    @shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: You're taking that stuff now? So what are you going to do when you get real old?
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    Image of xsecretfiles2 xsecretfiles2
    11/10/08

    In reply to 25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
    Woah! I wasn't even born yet
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/10/08

    @xsecretfiles2:

    *throws shoes in certain direction*
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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    11/10/08

    @shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: followed by my size 14 Air Force One
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    Image of THX THX
    11/10/08

    In reply to 25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
    Would you believe I still have a "shrink-wrapped" Windows 1.01 sitting in my basement?


    I was one of the early Beta-Testers.


    Who knew?


    Back then there was Topview from IBM and GEM from Digital Research (GEM was the best).

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/10/08

    @THX: Well of course GEM was the best. GEM is excitement.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    11/10/08

    In reply to 25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
    Wow,it comes with a copy of Microsoft Windows Write, which is a writing program! I'm so glad they explained that.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/10/08

    In reply to 25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
    It was just twenty years ago that I was still using Windows 3.1...


    My how time flies...

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    11/11/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another du...: I must have been counting in dog years.....
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    11/10/08

    In reply to 25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
    What did that weird O signify in the logo?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/10/08

    @reddingofish: The Eye of Sauron
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    11/10/08

    @reddingofish: It's called the "Blibbet".
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/10/08

    @reddingofish: Congrats! You win a prize. You just discovered the origin of the mysterious goatse...
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