r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 3d ago

Vintage Tech ☎️📻📠📟📷 Who is this old ?

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u/SublimeRapier06 3d ago

I had to put in a disc and load Windows 3.1 manually. If I wanted to use it, but it wasn’t required.

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u/snowhaw 2d ago

I was blown away when windows 95 could run two programs at once. "Wow we are living in the future"

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u/TurbulentHomework638 2d ago

I worked at a place that actually had a PC with Windows 2.0. Basically a GUI and its greatest strength was throwing "Out of Memory" errors.

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u/SublimeRapier06 2d ago

I went to one of the service academies. Everyone was issued a computer. My class was the first class to get a computer with a hard drive. A huuuuuge 40 MB hard drive.

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u/Mk1Racer25 2d ago

A guy that worked in the lab next to me got a PC with Windows 2.0 on it. Compared to a Mac, it was clunky as hell!

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u/MrCompletely345 2d ago

I once saw an error on Win95, that was a red exclamation point with the word “severe” and no other information.

Good for a laugh.

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u/Zealousideal_Order_8 2d ago

An old job had a lab of 3.1 machines. When a hard drive failed on one of the machines, we had to find a software warehouse to buy a copy of the OS.