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Please join my petition to bring back Windows 3.1.
According to some charts that I made up, 3.1 is used more now than it has ever been!
Windows 3.1 100% Windows ME 50% Windows XP 1% Windows 7 1% Windows 8 1%
You may say to yourself "dclamp, thats 153%" You are correct. Because those are true statistics.
As you can see, my petition is already 100% in favor of bringing back 3.1. JOIN NOW!
That was an awesome OS. It was so full of youth, vigor, and promise.
Omg yes yes yes!! Bring back windows 3.1!!! And quickbasic too!
It took me weeks before using the mouse when I went from DOS to Win 3.1 .... Can't say that I miss it at all.
I voted YES too. I miss a world without .NET
NO! I remember the tech store was always installing it whenever i went there for an upgrade (you know, a new 100MB HD or maybe an AdLib Sound Card) and i always ended up deleting it because of the useless space it occupied on my PC. DOS DOS DOS DOS! Bring back DOS 6.22!!
YOU are wrong. 3.1 is the greatest.Quote:
Originally Posted by sapator
Using a mouse... or 3.1?Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve R Jones
When I first was training at my current job, I was discouraged from using my mouse. My trainer threatened to take my mouse away if I kept using it...
Reminds me of this:
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Originally Posted by Carlos Rocha
To be fair, the whole thread's bait. In the context of this thread Carlos is the shark below the waterline throwing burgers tied to bits of string at fishermen. Ideally I'd now post a Larson cartoon but I don't have one.
As i was very very young back then and i wasn't that stubborn (except deleting the w3.1 over and over and over...), it wasn't really what made me buy a mouse (and i wouldn't have bought a mouse because of windows, that would only happen when XP were released, if i have to buy a mouse solely on windows account), what made me get that dirty rotten was Lemmings by Psygnosis ! OH NO, OH NO,OH NO,OH NO, boomboomboomboomboomboommmm!!!Everybody has done that!
Anyhow, what is the use of w3.1? You couldn't even play games on w3.1. If it were a petition to bring back w95, that would seem more logical ( i would still have voted no, if i could find a no). W3.1 was just something that you installed so you would have the pleasure to delete.
This is step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough.
Bring back MS-DOS 2.0!
No stinking mice,
No Fruity Icons,
No fancy speaker noises. (Just good old fashioned beeps.)
Basic was Basic.
What made Microsoft think they could improve on that! Hah!
Actually, that's the first thing I do with a new OS install - disable all the stupid sounds. really, who thought that was a great idea? Oh, that's right...Microsoft Bob and Mr Clippy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gruff
You know PC speaker could actually play music right? They did something with the frequency in some games and you could hear music and speech! I was drooling the first time i listened to the madness!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gruff
DOS DOS DOS DOS!
Ah the good ol' days
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I vote for keeping XP alive.!!!
The nostalgia!Quote:
Originally Posted by JuggaloBrotha
<-- Born in 1991.
Kids today. Pfft.
Bring back unpowered mechanical typewriters. Now there was perfection. *Sigh*
While going through Tech Training for the AF, we were learning ASM during one of our modules... a couple of us got ahead in our studies in class one day... use ASM to program the Empire March from Star Wars... we got tossed out of class for that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by sapator
Wasn't the first time we'd gotten tossed out... wasn't the last time either.
-tg
+1 I still prefer my old(er) Royal manual typewriter. I tried using an IBM Selectric once... didn't care for it too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gruff
-tg
Hole lee crap...4 years old, when Win95 was the best thing since...Quote:
Originally Posted by dclamp
I was old enough to Use Win95 though.
LOL :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by JuggaloBrotha