I don't remember windows1... I remember 3 and 3.3 (with it 30 something 1.44MB 3.5" disks.... and before that I remember DOS 4 / 5 / 5.1 and OS/2, too. IO had been into computers since the early 80's.... maybe I was still in "Commodore" land then? Vic20 / C64 / C128 / C128D ann then the Amiga... I think I had an XT fdor about 6 months before the AT came out and let you use RAM above 640k with Desqview and Qemm for multi-tasking.... ahh the good 'old days....

GAK! We wrote and ported software to ran under Desqview and QEMM... it was horrible.

There was an Amiga lab on campus for what seemed like forever, mostly for video editing.

And the Atari (ST - I think) had the music end...

Did you hear those hard drives wind up... at least you didn't have to 'tune the speed' like the apple mac hard drives.

My first HDD was 10MB, it was a MFM drive. It sounded like some sort of military machinery winding up! At the time it cost me $1200 - which is about $5000 today. And for the all the time I had it - I never came close to filling it up! I remember a "Norton" tools program "calibrat.exe" that was used to tune it. and of course X-tree Gold, too. NEC had the best colour monitors at the time - though I only ever had a green monochrome screen - for the longest time. I remember my first AT (286) was so much bigger than my XT, that I couldn't fit it in my case and so I had the motherboard and cards just sitting in the drawer of my wooden desk.... Ahhh, the good old days....

My first was an Apple IIe, with dual 5.5 drives. Wrote my first program in apple basic, but honestly, lost about 6 months of my life to Ultima 4