What's the first Windows Version you ever used?

Algus

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Wow, that blows my mind. We were still using diskettes when I first started college! My first laptop was a Compaq Presario that had a diskette drive and an optical drive in it.

I think I've still got the laptop around here somewhere though the motherboard died long ago. I used it well past its lifespan to maintain compatibility with old DOS games. This was before the marvel that is DOSBox existed.
 

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Sadly, MSDOS was my first foray into Microsoft products. I got my first 386 in 1989 I think and i'm sure it came with MSDOS 4.0.

I didn't bother with Windows until version 3.0 came along and then I got given a copy by a friend's dad who worked in IT, such as it was at the time.
 

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Windows 2.0. Also used many versions of MS-DOS and PC-DOS as well as OS/2.

Remember the tagline for OS/2? It launched with IBM's PS/2. The snarky tag line was "Half an operating system for half a computer".
 

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Oh man, the Sinclair ZX80 was a gorgeous computer. I do have my baby here...

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But he's from before my time. I don't use him to much since it's easier to just run an 8-bit emulator on my Mac but I keep him on the shelf. One of my favorite retrogaming acquisitions.
 

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Believe it or not I was an Apple guy back then! I had an Apple II! Of course I had plenty of DOS computers too, but my first version of Windows was called Windows 286 I believe and it was a predecessor to Windows 3.0 and was made for the then popular 286 computers, it was a variation of Windows 2.0 I believe.
 

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DOS and old Macintosh computers. Not sure what those ran because I was 7 back then. These were school computers. Most people didn't have PC's back then.