[Technical] MS Windows 1.0.3

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I have an grey coloured IBM Dos 3.3 software package .. even the shrinkwrap
is intact. Must be worth something besides being a bookend? An operating
system on a floppy disk (or was it two .. rattles box)

>From memory .. didnt MS Dos 4.0 come out with a similar type of file access
utility to Windows 1 in a friendly 'brown' coloured box with a small
handfull of floppy disks. I recall the grief that it caused us that made me
realise a great truth .. never fully trust any software version that ends in
a dot zero.

Regards Roland

On 12/12/06, Clark, Ian C <clark.ian.c at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
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> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
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> PS: I am curious if it can run under VMWare / VirtualPC and tracking down
> the software to try this out.
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> Hi Roland,
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> I would think that there would have been almost no copies of Windows 1
> imported into Australia ... certainly, I don't think you would have found
> one in a school ... lots of rivals at the time, even on DOS PCs ...
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> In the States, you might pick a copy up on 5.25" floppy at a garage sale
> alongside other unloved objects such as the Ford Edsel and Pat Boone LPs
> ...  :-)
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> PSS: There is little truth to rumors that some of the code is still being
> used with Vista :-)
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> No, but there'll be a heap of even older VAX VMS code from the seventies!
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> Cheers,
> Clarky
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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