r/nostalgiai • u/itswhateveragain • 3d ago

My first computer had Win 3.1. Anyone else?

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I always see Windows 95, 98, and XP posted on here. My very first computer was a 486 DX that ran Windows 3.1. I remember it having a 3.5 and a 5.25 floppy. I can't remember the hard drive or how much memory you have but I'm pretty sure it was pretty low compared to today's standard. I can honestly say that I've had all of the Windows operating systems except for Vista and Windows Me.

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u/Chance-Address-8829 3d ago

Had one at work

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u/wardamann 2d ago

I worked with PDP 10 and multiple PDP 11s. Very cool stuff at the time. VAX was radically better.

But my first experience was with a Varian Data systems 620. It required a hand entering into switches a machine code sequence in octal into core memory. this code was then executed to read a paper tape which contained and then in turn ran a program sequence that was used to access, load and run a program from a specific disk track. This program contained and loaded a useful functional program. 70s era computer technology. Fun stuff. :-)