On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM Michael Mulhern via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > I still have the evaluation copy of Win1 that we reviewed at AMP (largest > Australian all finance company). Just a small dot in Windows’ history, but > nice none the less. > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 7:18 am, Murray McCullough via cctalk > > According to history Windows 1 was introduced to the world on Nov. 20, > > 1985, 40 years ago, minus 2 days.
I wasn't a MS customer at the time (in 1985, I was full-on into DEC minicomputers at work - literally zero PCs - and Commodore + old DEC at home). Some time in the 90s, I came across a boxed set of Windows 1 that I still have for hysterical raisins. > > What we have now is much more and ‘better’ but for classic computing I > > still prefer WIN 3.1. I do confess to using Win 3.1 at work in 1995 (different companies entirely), specifically WfW 3.11 to be able to use TCP/IP to talk to all the UNIX and Linux machines. Having tried Windows 1, I can see why Windows didn't really catch on until Windows 3.x. -ethan
