windows 3.1 is now 29 years old

[Mister Creosote Vomit]

cool

[KOOLLAYDTAC]

Dang as it been that long already mate? lol Time sure does fly. lol

[dOBER]

I still have all 6 original floppy disk in my cellar. 29 years ago? ♥♥♥♥ i am old :(

[Mister Creosote Vomit]

Originally posted by dOBER:

I still have all 6 original floppy disk in my cellar. 29 years ago? ♥♥♥♥ i am old :(

are those 3 and a half inch disks? because i remember that you have to install windows 3.1 off like 70 floppys.

[dOBER]

Originally posted by John (Chirch):

Originally posted by dOBER:

I still have all 6 original floppy disk in my cellar. 29 years ago? ♥♥♥♥ i am old :(

are those 3 and a half inch disks? because i remember that you have to install windows 3.1 off like 70 floppys.

Yes but i think i have 3.11 6 disks. Dont know if 3.1 had different size.

[Mister Creosote Vomit]

Originally posted by dOBER:

Originally posted by John (Chirch):

are those 3 and a half inch disks? because i remember that you have to install windows 3.1 off like 70 floppys.

Yes but i think i have 3.11 6 disks. Dont know if 3.1 had different size.

well i know the windows 3.1 upgrade for windows 3.0 was on 5 and a quarter inch disks

[_I_]

3.11 was 6 or 8 3.5in disks
i still have the collection somewhere, along with a win 95 usb bootable stick to install it on a newer system

[Mister Creosote Vomit]

Originally posted by _I_:

3.11 was 6 or 8 3.5in disks
i still have the collection somewhere, along with a win 95 usb bootable stick to install it on a newer system

can you even boot off usb on a old win95/98/me/2000 computers?

[_I_]

Originally posted by John (Chirch):

Originally posted by _I_:

3.11 was 6 or 8 3.5in disks
i still have the collection somewhere, along with a win 95 usb bootable stick to install it on a newer system

can you even boot off usb on a old win95/98/me/2000 computers?

yep, just need to check bios, some do not support it, but most pentium 3 or amd duron? or later do

[Mister Creosote Vomit]

Originally posted by _I_:

3.11 was 6 or 8 3.5in disks

how many 5 and a quarter inch disks?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Never liked Win3.1/3.11
Much preferred DOS.
Win95 was "ok", definitely worth using compared to Win3.1
98-SE is where things got good.

[_I_]

3.x and earlier were like pretty pictures for dos

Originally posted by John (Chirch):

Originally posted by _I_:

3.11 was 6 or 8 3.5in disks

how many 5 and a quarter inch disks?

not sure, id guess they used dsdd 5.25 which were 1.2mb instead of 1.44mb so maybe one extra disk

back off topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_sAxrAu7Q

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Win3.11 came on 6x 3.5 inch floppies
Win95 came on 15x 3.5 inch floppies or 1x CDROM

[Mister Creosote Vomit]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Win3.11 came on 6x 3.5 inch floppies
Win95 came on 15x 3.5 inch floppies or 1x CDROM

Didn't windows 95 come on 25 floppies tho?

[Carlsberg]

Just remembering the bat files we had to make to free up that valuable 640k ram, give me a headache now. Kids playing today have no idea what a bat file even is.

[Mister Creosote Vomit]

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

Just remembering the bat files we had to make to free up that valuable 640k ram, give me a headache now. Kids playing today have no idea what a bat file even is.

Man, MS-DOS Were the days. although the 640k ram barrier was pretty crap.