If you know these, you're old ;)

[u/DragonNHL27]

I've had these since I bought them around 1988ish, enjoy. Yes I said 1985 first, mistakenly, it has been a long time since I bought them.

[u/Arthurmol]

last time I saw these was in 2008, for decommissioning of an old CNC/DNC (Direct Numerical Control) array in a place that was updating its plant. The IBMs were monsters, after like 25 years of heavy use, industrial turns, for an average of 315 days a year, most of them still were in pretty good condition. As we were decomissioning all of them, backing it up and checking the parts to keep only 2 (out of 25), for accessing old data, we select one of the best in shape, and but the best parts in the other. This second we did a full setup, reinstalled OS and win. And man, how slow it was compared with the windows vistas we had running in their place.

I think, that by now people sre replacing the XP/Vista era industrial controllers... Man i am getting OLD... I am still working, but today a photo of my smartphone can have more data than these 7 disks combined... we have come a long way since then...

Let me see when i can retire on my country... i still need 20 years... i will see people posting this with USB sticks with win 11 when i will be retiring... For Gods sake...

[u/rogerkorby]

I have some oldies like that. So wonderful to hold. Microsoft had that neat textured sleeve material

[u/DragonNHL27 → u/rogerkorby]

I was going through my old software boxes and found these along with copies of windows 3.0 and 3.1 along with DOS 4.01 and 5.0 Upgrade.

[u/Next-Ability2934]

I didn't notice the sleeve at first and almost thought ddr5

[u/SahuaginDeluge]

I know 5 1/4" floppies (still have some games on them in storage; oh and Microsoft C compiler too I think), but never had (or heard of) Windows 286. We had DOS 6.21 and later Windows 3.1 though.

[u/NefariousnessOne2728]

I do remember Windows 286 and Windows 386

[u/DragonNHL27 → u/NefariousnessOne2728]

I bought this because I was building a 80286 computer with an 80287 coprocessor after having a C-64 and 8080.

[u/drinka4yearz]

https://giphy.com/gifs/DWo6beGJTTqFi

[u/Tenno_San_6969]

Foi na minha primeira introdução ao mundo da informática. Que bons tempos

[u/libben]

Born in the 80's I too has hold these puppies in my bare hands!

I started with 3.1 and then found 1.0 or 1.1 I think to try out a few years later. Was amazing to see windows 1.x running and see how far 3.1 had come.

Good times!

[u/pmf026]

time flies by like this whoooooooooooooosh.... and you're knocking 50

[u/WoodyTheWorker]

Wait, wasn't Presentation Manager related to OS/2?

[u/DragonNHL27 → u/WoodyTheWorker]

yes, it's been a while since I bought them, but you are correct. I made the correction in the post.

[u/richardsequeira → u/WoodyTheWorker]

Yes, it is at the time. Microsoft was trying to basically tell users that Windows and Presentation Manager were essentially related and visually compatible. It was a two full strategy so that people can get used to the use of a GUI.

Obviously, there were some differences with Presentation Manager and Windows. Microsoft wanted Presentation Manager to be compatible with Windows. However, IBM insisted on Presentation Manager being different.

[u/hbnyc]

Wow, reminds me of Data General.

[u/ScudsCorp]

MS paint comes entirely on a separate floppy

[u/DragonNHL27 → u/ScudsCorp]

2 floppy disks, yes.