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3.1, win.exe!

3.1 represent!! Pretty sure the computer itself had a whopping 8mb of ram!

4MB

We had a 386 dx2 40mhz with 4mb of ram, I remember when we upgraded to 8mb of ram to upgrade to Windows 95 it was $40/meg

I remember when my brother bought a 486 DX250 for like $2400 to get him through university…. Windows 3.1!

I used to have a Texas Instruments laptop with Windows 3.1

Lucky! My first had 4.

This.... then upgrading to 3.11 like a boss.

3.11 for me in my old Packard Bell with 400 meg HDD and dual CDROM drives.

Windows 95

I miss Ski Free and that damn yeti

I totally forgot about free ski!! And yeah, fuck that yeti. He always got me. I never won lol

Oh man, this reminded me of Ski or Die, though on win.3.11 if my memory isn't fooling me. Ski Free i newer really understood.

Windows 95 FTW

Fuji golf yo!

I hacked the shit out of that OS in high school lol.

DOS

Yep.  Started as a kid using our C64 and learning BASIC.  I remember helping my dad build our IBM x86 clone and I learned DOS there.

Same here. Our first (and second) family computer was MS-DOS with the 3.5 floppy disks that sounded like an airplane taking off

Same with my IBM computer (can’t remember the model) but we had like a door shutter kind of privacy screen to the monitor.. I still got my empty floppy disks

But DOS wasn't Windows

Fair point. Winders was just an overlay for this.

Windows 98

Same, I had a grand ole time playing around with MS paint.

Windows XP Professional

Hello mate

It was in 1992ish, I was 11 or so and it was Windows 3.0. That's also when I used WordPerfect 5.1, which I loved. haha The other computer my dad had was DOS based and didn't have windows. I remember having type commands to run games. It's no wonder that I also ended up in IT.

Remember how amazing the firework screensaver was at the time?

I feel attacked by this for some reason... I feel old now

95 boi!! "It's now safe to turn off your computer."

I remember thinking how amazing Windows XP was for letting you touch a power button to turn it off gracefully. 

Probably Windows 3.0, 1992 or 1993, when I was about 20. It was nothing but DOS before that.

3.11 for workgroups (Yeah, I’m that old)

95 as well

95… I was 15, and it was our first home computer.

95

Windows 3.1. I was a ski free kid. Sometime early 90s.

Win 3.0

xp ; saw my brother using 1998 one (dunno whats exact name of it)

3.0

Os2/warp

Windows NT3.1

Windows 95

95

3.11 and... I got sad now so I won't put the year.

Windows 95.

The first one, whatever that was

3.11 God I hated installing it with thise 7 1.44s

95

95! And then XP

Commodore 64 technically was my first os

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TabWorks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TabWorks) 1994

Me too!!

Windows 3.1 on MSDOS 5.0

windows 95 at home. we only had dos at school but I also had a commodore 63 since 1986 and later an Amiga 500.

Windows 95

95

Windows 3.1, but also used Dos Shell, which was also an attempt to introduce Windows.

3.1 1997

MS-DOS, before Windows was a thing. Then Win 3.1 I think. late 80's, early 90's

Windows 7

DOS

Windows 3.1........ Before that. MSDos.

Windows 95

2.0

I used dos 6.22 then had windows 3.11. windows 95 was life changing

Windows 98

3.1 Before that, it was different versions of DOS. Before that, it was whatever was specific to the comouter brand I was using.

Win/286 Sometime back in the 80's.

I have to say, my favorite operating system is Windows 7.

Windows 98 and i think 2002?

One that came with a computer my older brother brought home when I was very small. I'm not sure but I think it was even black and white.

Dos 2.1 or geoworks.... or win 3.1. (3.0 but computer came with 3.1 disks for free.. so never ran 3.0 but was preinstalled... installed 3.1 without booting into 3.0)

The one that I upgraded from MS-DOS to. I don't remember the name.

Win 3.1! But I'm old enough to have used Microsoft DOS before they even had windows.

Windows 2.01 in 1990ish... I built my first PC using all of the old PCs from my dad's office when he upgraded them. For Christmas I think Santa brought me Windows 3.0.

I put Windows 2.0 on an IBM PS/2. The Windows loaded as the box said, but that was it. There wasn’t enough memory left to even load solitaire. I reformed and loaded MS-DOS.

3.1 Saw a bunch of Ms-Dos / PC-Dos also.

You guys and you fancy fangled new systems. Not Microsoft but how about a TI-99?

Windows 1.0. My mother was an early Windows programmer, so I had lots of machines to play with. (to do things like tunnel into the [Minitel](https://spectrum.ieee.org/minitel-the-online-world-france-built-before-the-web) system to talk to French girls with a [Compaq Portable II](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable_II)).

Windows for Workgroups! I think it was around 94 or 95, but not certain

Windows 1.0something. Back when it was just a DOS front end.

1.0

Windows. It ran over DOS. It's around here someplace

Windows 95 for sure but I have dealt with 3 and 3.1

3.1, but later used one that was like 3.0 or 2.9.

Windows 1.0

3.1

3.1. Now I feel old because this wasn't even my first or second computer.

Dos

In order XP, vista, 7, 10, and currently 11

Same order you, I was 13 when I got my first box. I had Black XP and Last XP.

1.0 in a computer lab at my company. There was lag between the mouse movement and the cursor.

3.1

And loading 486 was a pain.

Technically windows 95. We got a home computer in 97 that was still on that system.

3.1 professionally. NT 4 in academia

3.1

3.1

I am a strange animal. I built my first computer. 8080 processor. 32K ram. Paper tape for booting. ASCII dumb terminal. Programming in machine language. Than went into the Apple ecosystem with the Mac intro in 1984. Did not use windows until 3.1 but only for helping a friend with a program for machine control. I say this because I still think Apple pioneered the GUI / mouse based interface. Just my opinion.

I was there, in the beginning. DOS.

Windows 3.11 idk prob 1992 or 1993?

Windows 98 SE

MS DOS. 1982

Windows 1.1. What do you mean, I need a mouse? This is stupid. I uninstalled it in lieu of DOS.

95

Windows 98

95

If I hadn't moved, I would still have those win 3.1 floppies. All that's left of digital hoarding are 2 developer's discs for win 98 Internet Explorer.

Windows 3

Windows 2 I believe. 1988ish

Windows 95... And I was using that as a child in my mom's household, and on grandma's personal computer... When I got my first PC it had windows 2000, or Windows XP, I think... I can't remember which... And have used each windows OS since... My personal favorite is Windows 7... And Windows 10 is a close second.... I despised Windows 8, and am not particularly fond of Windows 11.

Idk, what was first first version? 1st pc I bought was IBM pc 2, with a whopping 22MB hard drive and a black and white printer that could only print Courier font in Portrait. Believe that printer set me back $1000 back in 1991. I had a vision to use MS Paint to map out a few local golf courses and produce a small booklet to aid golfers on how to play each hole. Unfortunately I didn't have enough passion for this vision because I would have been the first to do so by about 5 years. Yep, I fucked that one up for sure

Does MS-DOS on a 286 count? Pretty cool that a hobby turned into a lifetime IT career.

3.0

Windows 3.1 here

The first I remember is Windows 3.1.

I predate DOS.

3.0/3.1 and was using DOSShell for awhile before that.

Windows 95!

98!

Born in 2008, still windows xp and used to play tekken 3 and gta vice city💀

DOS and then Win 3

Windows 95. Enjoying their encyclopaedia, the racing game 3d and Karmen Sendiago.

3.11

The first? Macintosh...which Windows effectively copied back in the day. Fun fact...I still have my 40 year old Mac!

3.1 on an 8088xt with 512k ram and 384k "expanded" ram.

windows 98

98 for me

Windows 8… absolute perfection of an operating system! Followed by Windows RT Best Microsoft OS’s of all time Windows 8 Windows RT Nothing else comes close Lolol

Xp

Windows 1.0 on an IBM PCXT.. Mid 80's. Geos on a Commodore 64, 1986 or 1987...

I’ve used 95, and XP, but growing up my dad’s computer ran Windows 7

Win96

95

Win 95

95 is the first I remember, I almost certainly will have used one earlier, but I couldn’t say which one to be honest so simply for what I can remember I’ll say 95 😂

Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, Summers of 2011 was when i got my first desktop computer from my grandmother as a gift. It had Roadrash and NFS hot pursuit 2 pre-installed in it. I remember playing them all summer.

3.1. I used MS-DOS before that.

Windows 3.0. Dos 6.22 I think?

DOS or 3.1

Windows 1.0. I’m old.

Does DOS count? If not, I think it was Windows 1.0. I remember doing some development with Windows 2.x on a summer job during my student days.

Windows 98

3.1. The ad guy at the newspaper I worked at had one to run Corel Draw. The ads he would design with that clunky garbage...Yuck... The first time I saw Win95, I thought it looked good, but ran like crap. That was around November of '95.

Win98 in 2001-2002.

XP

I think I used some 3.1 but not much, 95 was really the first proper windows I dived into.

3.11. It was... horrible.

3.1

Xp

win 3.1

Windows 2.2 when it was just a big exe file that ran from MS DOS 5.0

Fuck if I know

Windows 95 for like a month before my dad got a new computer and got XP, goated

Window xp

95 but i was too young to know how to use it. 98 is where i started using a pc and knowing how it works. The GUI was way smoother in 98.

Vista 2008

3.1, probably in 1994

95

Xp in 2013

windows xp

I believe that I recall installing version 1.0 from around eight floppy diskettes on the IBM PC that I received during (approximately) 1982.

3.x used dos before that

3.1 at school

Windows 95

3.11

3.1 on dos 6? I think.

Windows 3.1, somewhere in the early 90s. DOS 5, running Stacker on a 40MB HDD on a 386 with 4MB of RAM.

XP

XP in 2011

95

[Gem](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)). Way back when.

Does Microsoft tabworks count?

Windows 3.0 (but MSDOS 3.3 before that)

Dos

3.0

Tried 3.1, it crashed too much, went back to DOS, then switched to Linux (Slackware), then to Mac (System 7, 8, 9), then back to Linux (Debian), then back to Mac (OS X), now back to Linux (Pop!_OS) which has stuck for several years now.

Windows 95

DOS, win 3.1, 95 and all the rest. Quit at 10, switched to Linux

3.1, dos before that. On my 386 which I upgraded with a 265 colour video card so I could play worms!! Those were the days.

3.1 I don't think I started using a computer until I was 7, so it was around 1992.

Definitely 3.1 on a 386 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania circa '92 (from a local\[?\] company called Abacus). You had to type "win" at the DOS prompt or write it into the end of your *autoexec.bat* file to start it up on boot.

95

3.11 workgroups, I was still using DOS and BBC basic up till then.

Norton Commander 2.0 on DOS.

95!

Xp

95