Something eerie about this.
On Saturday morning I installed Windows 7 for the first time. The same day the door closed on Windows 3.x after 18 years. As reported by the BBC it is the end of an era. Clunky as it seems now, Windows 3.x is sort of why I am where I am now – it was running on the first PC we had at home and was revolutionary compared to the orange screen “PC” we had on loan from my Dad’s company only weeks before.
Ah the good old days. As The Register reminds us 3.11 needed
640KB of RAM, seven megabytes of hard drive space and support for a CGA, EGA and VGA graphics card. It required an 8086/8088 processor or higher, with a clock speed of up to 10MHz.
CGA and EGA….what a blast from the past! Laughable now.
Goodbye old friend and thanks for all the memories…or lack of it with 640k RAM!
"640KB of RAM, seven megabytes of hard drive space and support for a CGA, EGA and VGA graphics card. It required an 8086/8088 processor or higher, with a clock speed of up to 10MHz."
This is why I laugh at people who always scream "resource hog!" for every Windows version... :-)
However, it was really a nice experience at those times.