Ah, I got the answer... there was a 1.01 with a limited release in the US only, I still have yet to get confirmation over whether there was a retail store package or whether it was bundled only. 1.03 was indeed the first multinational release about 9 months later. I'm sure there wasn't a 1.00, although 1.01 packages may have carried "1.0" markings. Kai -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Walker [mailto:lwalker@mail.interlog.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 9:01 PM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: als for it On 30 Sep 98 at 9:19, Kai Kaltenbach wrote: the Sorry Kai, I usually tend to take your MS statements as gospel but in this case I've just been looking at the flash page and desktop of Windows 1.01 copyrighted 1984 and the files are dated 11-15-85. Unless this was a pirated version smuggled out of MS or an elaborate put-on it must be the first issue. It has a somewhat-Norton Commander style desktop but has most of the utilities of the later version - notepad, write, calendar ,etc. and a pif-editor and win.ini. It comes on 5 360k disks with a set-up program that builds a small Win.com and an much larger overlay binarie. As you mention it doesn't support VGA and the readme file has a lot of references to problems with AboveBoard (the Intel mem-expansion card). I've had it for a short while and just now installed it on an 8580 PS2 running DRDOS. While I can get the desktop the utilities hang with the familiar hourglass. I just tried it on my 5150 which has an Inboard card and uses the A20 handler but only 1meg memory and also heavily configured and with Dos 5. It crashed leaving me at the prompt. Using my favorite shell CMFiler got me to a blank screen before crashing . Likely memory related. I'm going to try it on one of my 286s' using an earlier dos and with one of 1.01's memory handlers emm.at or emm.xt (dated 7-30-85) in autoexec. I have of course no manual. I do run on, sorry. ciao larry lwalker(a)interlog.com