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Title: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: pctech on Apr 06, 2012, 19:09:46
Interesting article looking back at it http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/06/windows_3_1_anniversary/

Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: Den on Apr 06, 2012, 20:53:05
There will be someone on here still using it and saying that they see no reason to upgrade to Windows 95   >:D
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: Technical Ben on Apr 06, 2012, 22:37:41
Difficult if it has no net connections of browsers. ;)
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: Niall on Apr 07, 2012, 01:00:52
When I started using PCs, that had just arrived on the scene, but I was still using DOS. Building manual databases for the local computer college with no thanks, I might add!
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: talos on Apr 07, 2012, 07:39:39
Quote from: Den on Apr 06, 2012, 20:53:05
There will be someone on here still using it and saying that they see no reason to upgrade to Windows 95   >:D

:wave: :wave: Thats me !   Got it on an old laptop, it's too old and creaky to run anything else but I still use it for updating anything that needs a RS232 port :thumb:
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: Rik on Apr 07, 2012, 08:51:17
A handful of floppies to do the installation. Those were the days. :)
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: kinmel on Apr 07, 2012, 12:32:18
Quote from: Rik on Apr 07, 2012, 08:51:17
A handful of floppies to do the installation. Those were the days. :)

Just checked my O.S. archive -  3.1 occupies 7.91MB in 467 files.

My Windows 7 mouse driver is bigger than that
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: Rik on Apr 07, 2012, 12:47:05
Small is beautiful. :)
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: Glenn on Apr 07, 2012, 13:29:35
Only short people say that.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: Rik on Apr 07, 2012, 13:31:54
I'm more average than short... ;D
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: Simon on Apr 07, 2012, 13:37:15
Quote from: Rik on Apr 07, 2012, 13:31:54
I'm more average than short... ;D

I'm too short for my width.  ;)
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: Rik on Apr 07, 2012, 13:37:51
Snap! :)
Title: Re: Windows 3.1 is 20 today
Post by: pctech on Apr 07, 2012, 17:26:56
Just before I started my current job they had just dropped support of users running 3.1 which included guiding them through configuring the Trumpet Software Windows Sockets TCP/IP stack and dial up modems as the place had its own rack of US Robotics  modems for customers to dial in to access conferencing.