18 Nov
2025
18 Nov
'25
5:28 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM Michael Mulhern via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I still have the evaluation copy of Win1 that we
reviewed at AMP (largest
Australian all finance company). Just a small dot in Windows’ history, but
nice none the less.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 7:18 am, Murray McCullough via cctalk
> According to history Windows 1 was introduced to the world on Nov. 20,
> 1985, 40 years ago, minus 2 days.
I wasn't a MS customer at the time (in 1985, I was full-on into DEC
minicomputers at work - literally zero PCs - and Commodore + old DEC
at home). Some time in the 90s, I came across a boxed set of Windows
1 that I still have for hysterical raisins.
> What we have now is much more and ‘better’ but
for classic computing I
> still prefer WIN 3.1.
I do confess to using Win 3.1 at work in 1995 (different companies
entirely), specifically WfW 3.11 to be able to use TCP/IP to talk to
all the UNIX and Linux machines.
Having tried Windows 1, I can see why Windows didn't really catch on
until Windows 3.x.
-ethan