who still remembers (or uses) windows 3.11?

[onthebrightside]

I was a regular user of GEM, Amiga Workbench and Mac OS before encountering windows. The PCs at my school were all kitted out with 3.11. Happy times

 

[gnoriac]

Used 3.11 until 1999 I think, and that was with a big American bank. The changeover to 95 was pretty traumatic.

I also remember Xtree and WordPerfect with some affection, WordPerfect 7 did everything you genuinely needed. Just as Word killed WordPerfect, I was working with Paradox until Access (unbelievably) killed that too.

In it's day, 3.11 seemed absolutely marvellous. Unless you'd ever used a Mac of course.

 

[ovaltina]

Brings back memories of a computer I rescued from a skip back in 2000. It was pretty shit!

 

[audiotech]

ahh, the good old days of DOS commands and supercalc.

 

[WWWeed]

i remember 3.1 so there.

Fuck it i remember using dos and then getting excited about a programme called x-tree(i think) which kinda sorta had a gui.

mine wasn't x-tree gold though

((((x-tree))))

and im younger then bluestreak!

dave

now thats a blast from the past! I dont think I've seen x-tree for atleast 12 years!

 

[newbie]

now thats a blast from the past! I dont think I've seen x-tree for atleast 12 years!

somehow i doubt if you have, or Desqview, or the old two letter Norton Utilities, like FF. But old habits die hard, there are still occasions that i use a wee text editor called Zedit, which is still configured with Wordstar commands- Ctrl Y to delete a line, Ctrl U to delete a word and so on.

 

[Pingu]

anyone else here use norton desktop for windows?

dosshell anyone and the qbasic game with the gorilla?

I also remember using PCDOS and MSDOS 5. and being a beta tester for win95

if i could get the drivers I bet win3.1 would fucking fly on my machine today

 

[Detroit City]

Are you ancient enough to remember 3.11? Any happy times you want to share?

yea it was great...probably one of the most stable versions of Windows

but then again it didn't have to do too much

 

[newbie]

that'd be stable as in wobblier than a wobbly thing on wobble day?

 

[5t3IIa]

I used it at a gig I had in 98. Couldn't save docs with names, had to write down it's the number in a notebook attached to the monitor with a piece of string

 

[Numbers]

Not only do I remember it, I supported it for many a year in my 1st proper IT job, with cc:mail version 1.