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Computer Software => Windows => Topic started by: roseway on March 03, 2011, 03:22:06 PM

Title: Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7
Post by: roseway on March 03, 2011, 03:22:06 PM

If you've got ten minutes to spare, this is a quite interesting film about a project to install Windows 1.0 and then upgrade it through every major Windows version up to the present. A few programs of the era are installed at the start, and a few specific settings made, to see how well they are preserved through all the updates.


[youtube]vPnehDhGa14[/youtube]

Title: Re: Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7
Post by: HPsauce on March 03, 2011, 03:35:26 PM

Fascinating, takes me back a long way!  :-X

Title: Re: Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7
Post by: BritBrat on March 03, 2011, 04:33:05 PM

I think I still have a windows 1 achived somewhere :)

Honnest I do.

Title: Re: Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7
Post by: UncleUB on March 03, 2011, 04:35:37 PM

I first started with W95...It was installed on a Dan Technology pc(remember them).It had 8mb ram and a further 8mb upgrade would have cost £200  :D

Title: Re: Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7
Post by: HPsauce on March 03, 2011, 04:54:04 PM

Quote from: BritBrat on March 03, 2011, 04:33:05 PM

I think I still have a windows 1 achived

I've got Dos back to 3.3 and maybe earlier, but Windows only from 3.11.

Didn't touch early Windows much except as a vehicle for Pagemaker(?) and the like.
It started to get interesting with 3.0, 3.1 and 3.11 as that added (don't recall the exact order) things like a decent file manager, printer drivers independent of applications, fonts independent of both applications and printers (Truetype) and shared networking.

Title: Re: Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7
Post by: roseway on March 03, 2011, 04:59:23 PM

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was my first version too. Before that I was an Atari addict. :-[

Title: Re: Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7
Post by: HPsauce on March 03, 2011, 05:22:32 PM

Windows for Playgroups, please.  :lol:

Title: Re: Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7
Post by: UncleUB on March 03, 2011, 06:11:22 PM

Quote from: roseway on March 03, 2011, 04:59:23 PM

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was my first version too. Before that I was an Atari addict. :-[

8)  :D

And I was also into the Commodore Amiga.  8)

Title: Re: Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7
Post by: roseway on March 03, 2011, 06:34:37 PM

Quote from: HPsauce on March 03, 2011, 05:22:32 PM

Windows for Playgroups, please.  :lol:

You could be right. ;D