LGR 486 Update! Installing & Enjoying Windows 3. 1
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Robert
The significance of those TrueType fonts can-t be overstated. They-d been introduced on the Mac OS, I wanna say about the time Win 3. 0 was a new product. Microsoft licensed TrueType from Apple, included the tech in Win 3. 1 and released a few sample fonts with the OS, including the mega-popular Ariel and Times New Roman. Before this, offices and home users wanting a printer had to decide whether they needed only simple printouts of basic-style invoices, reports, letters, etc, or if they needed desktop publishing capabilities, in which case they-d need an expensive, difficult-to-use printer that supported some type of scalable fonts, like Adobe-s infamous Type 1 PostScript fonts, which often had to be downloaded for specific print jobs from the PC to the printer, a process which many office managers would set in motion as they left for lunch, hoping to print some professional documents later that afternoon. It was beyond tedious and often required not only a special printer but also a dedicated PC or Mac.
TrueType was a revolution. You could use the fonts on dot-matrix printers, and - even better! - on those fancy and cheap new ink-jets. Almost overnight, anyone with a 386 and a dot-matrix could create documents almost as good as brick-and-mortar print shops could do.
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The significance of those TrueType fonts can-t be overstated. They-d been introduced on the Mac OS, I wanna say about the time Win 3. 0 was a new product. Microsoft licensed TrueType from Apple, included the tech in Win 3. 1 and released a few sample fonts with the OS, including the mega-popular Ariel and Times New Roman. Before this, offices and home users wanting a printer had to decide whether they needed only simple printouts of basic-style invoices, reports, letters, etc, or if they needed desktop publishing capabilities, in which case they-d need an expensive, difficult-to-use printer that supported some type of scalable fonts, like Adobe-s infamous Type 1 PostScript fonts, which often had to be downloaded for specific print jobs from the PC to the printer, a process which many office managers would set in motion as they left for lunch, hoping to print some professional documents later that afternoon. It was beyond tedious and often required not only a special printer but also a dedicated PC or Mac.
TrueType was a revolution. You could use the fonts on dot-matrix printers, and - even better! - on those fancy and cheap new ink-jets. Almost overnight, anyone with a 386 and a dot-matrix could create documents almost as good as brick-and-mortar print shops could do.
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Spontaneous
The first PC I ever bought was when I was stationed in Hawaii back in the early 90s. It was a 386DX-33, and had Windows 3. 0. The shop that sold it to me said that 3. 1 was coming out, and promised a free upgrade when they got the software. I never saw the attraction in Windows at first (with 3. 0) and once I upgraded, I still mostly used DOS, since most of the programs I used were still DOS. Anyway, this was a big -memory lane- video for me! Thanks!
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The first PC I ever bought was when I was stationed in Hawaii back in the early 90s. It was a 386DX-33, and had Windows 3. 0. The shop that sold it to me said that 3. 1 was coming out, and promised a free upgrade when they got the software. I never saw the attraction in Windows at first (with 3. 0) and once I upgraded, I still mostly used DOS, since most of the programs I used were still DOS. Anyway, this was a big -memory lane- video for me! Thanks!
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Eclectic
Windows 3. 1 was the very first version of windows I used. I can still picture my classroom and the computers that ran Windows 3. 1. For leisure time, our teacher let us play -Math Blaster- an interactive space game in which the character flew by jet pack and shot his green laser gun at enemies. The enemies were vanquished when you typed in the correct answer to a math problem.
Simple times and awesome times.
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Windows 3. 1 was the very first version of windows I used. I can still picture my classroom and the computers that ran Windows 3. 1. For leisure time, our teacher let us play -Math Blaster- an interactive space game in which the character flew by jet pack and shot his green laser gun at enemies. The enemies were vanquished when you typed in the correct answer to a math problem.
Simple times and awesome times.
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fattomandeibu
The reason you rarely use the last installation disk, at here in England, is because that's where it keeps all the alternate language files. For instance, if your copy of Windows is American and you want to have the language be French, then you'd need to use that last disk to get the language files. Sometimes(for instance on the Amiga OS) this was called the Locale or Localization disk.
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The reason you rarely use the last installation disk, at here in England, is because that's where it keeps all the alternate language files. For instance, if your copy of Windows is American and you want to have the language be French, then you'd need to use that last disk to get the language files. Sometimes(for instance on the Amiga OS) this was called the Locale or Localization disk.
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Elias
Just found an old dell laptop that booted to ms-dos. Looking in the directory I could see some kind of windows installation.
I managed to run the windows help file which brought up the GUI.
I thought I had found a backdoor in the os. turns out I found the complete os, windows 3. 1.
Now I know all I need to do is type WIN at startup.
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Just found an old dell laptop that booted to ms-dos. Looking in the directory I could see some kind of windows installation.
I managed to run the windows help file which brought up the GUI.
I thought I had found a backdoor in the os. turns out I found the complete os, windows 3. 1.
Now I know all I need to do is type WIN at startup.
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scottcol23
I remember when the Microsoft mouse came out. And YES they were high gloss in a time when ALL mice were matt finish. I remember wanting one because it was smooth, shiny and fit in the hand well. BUT they were $69. And I thought that was a little too expensive for a mouse. I always used a plain old IBM mouse.
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I remember when the Microsoft mouse came out. And YES they were high gloss in a time when ALL mice were matt finish. I remember wanting one because it was smooth, shiny and fit in the hand well. BUT they were $69. And I thought that was a little too expensive for a mouse. I always used a plain old IBM mouse.
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lazygamereviews
That was my first computer when I was a kid, even though it was around 2002-2005 - (We basically lived like the 90s back then cuz of not having much money so everything we had was from the 90s including games and clothing) It makes me so happy and nostalgic seeing this again, I honestly want to go back
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That was my first computer when I was a kid, even though it was around 2002-2005 - (We basically lived like the 90s back then cuz of not having much money so everything we had was from the 90s including games and clothing) It makes me so happy and nostalgic seeing this again, I honestly want to go back
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John
Whay? no Oilcap? The game did come with Windows 3. 11a, but stacker was removed, IIRC. this was before WinZip, too. Remember Moraff's World (DOS? -Do you wish to dig a hole in the floor? It may take some time, but if you are trapped. -. -The door is jammed-. -A monster wants to help-.
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Whay? no Oilcap? The game did come with Windows 3. 11a, but stacker was removed, IIRC. this was before WinZip, too. Remember Moraff's World (DOS? -Do you wish to dig a hole in the floor? It may take some time, but if you are trapped. -. -The door is jammed-. -A monster wants to help-.
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Lawn
What I would like to see is. a Blank HDD having Dos installed. Then Windows 3. 0 or 3. 11. Millennials Will have no experience of this. Nowadays unless you buy a blank drive and install windows on it from fresh, You won't have experience installing any type of os.
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What I would like to see is. a Blank HDD having Dos installed. Then Windows 3. 0 or 3. 11. Millennials Will have no experience of this. Nowadays unless you buy a blank drive and install windows on it from fresh, You won't have experience installing any type of os.
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WhiteTylerPerry
Those original Microsoft branded mice were very comfortable to use. Takes me back to hangin' out in the computer lab in middle school circa '99-'00. They were old and ran Windows 3. 11 and I remember using PrintShop all the damn time and hated it lol.
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Those original Microsoft branded mice were very comfortable to use. Takes me back to hangin' out in the computer lab in middle school circa '99-'00. They were old and ran Windows 3. 11 and I remember using PrintShop all the damn time and hated it lol.
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