MacOS 1.0 and Windows 1.0

SAbsar

SAbsar

Mac Graduate
Hey, anybody know where i can find MacOS 1.0 and Windows 1.0? Ive been searching for weeks now but i havent found anything! I just wanna have a look at the two, compare stuff, play around you know. After all, thats what emulators are there for, right! :) i have VPC and basilik, i just need the OS's (mac 1 and windows 1)! Anyone know where to find them?
 
That old windows was a piece, remember how bad 3.1 or even 95 was? its like that times 100. The closest thing to it ive ever found was a Windows XP theme of it, god that was ugly.

The more i think about it, the sadder i get, I think about the first family computer i remember using was an Apple SE (i think i was too young for the IIe) That operating system was really quite solid, i dont remember having nearly the problems that ive had with 95 and it was much older. I still use that computer from time to time, play some Jam Session or Falcon.

how did PCs ever end up ahead?
 
HateEternal said:
how did PCs ever end up ahead?
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Do you really, reeeally want to open up that can of worms?

Basically (and I'm talking very basic here), they were cheaper and did stuff well enough that people could justify them better, Apple made some mistakes that cost them, and the whole licensing thing contributed a great deal. Imagine if it were IBM vs. Apple still, instead of legions of IBM clones vs. Apple.
 
SAbsar said:
Hey, anybody know where i can find MacOS 1.0 and Windows 1.0?
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Well, for the Mac stuff you could try here, but I'm not sure where you would go for Windows 1.0. As I recall it was little more than a shell to run Excel in originally*.

*Apple originally agreed to provide Microsoft with elements of the Mac OS in exchange for releasing Excel for Macs first. Excel needed a GUI environment to run in (like on Macs). Apple thought it was just to support a few apps, but Microsoft started to make it into more than that... the rest is history.
 
I faintly remember the Windows 3.1 file-browser being no more than a graphical version of the DOS-shell ... that's how it started ... and the windows explorer interface is still like that ... I cannot even begin to imagine the horrors of windows 1.0!
 
Arden said:
Do you really, reeeally want to open up that can of worms?

Basically (and I'm talking very basic here), they were cheaper and did stuff well enough that people could justify them better, Apple made some mistakes that cost them, and the whole licensing thing contributed a great deal. Imagine if it were IBM vs. Apple still, instead of legions of IBM clones vs. Apple.
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Yeah it was really the whole Apple sat at the same level of innovation for way too long. That, plus price was set to doom them, until Jobs came back, and saved the company with the iMac.
 
Yeah, I do remember using windows 3.11 when i bought my first PC in 1990. I was just 8 back then, so it seemed pretty exciting. Yeah it was just a shell. You booted up to a C:\> prompt and had to type in 'win' to run the program. Still you just *had* to quit to the prompt (or close winblows totally) to run other software.

when i really got to know about macs, 95 seemed like a piece of ****!
I heard someone say that PC's ended up ahead?? They didn't - they just ended up in large numbers. But yes, eternal, it IS somewhat saddening that this be the case. Lets just not sink into it again!

Well anyway, i have been looking around, and most places say that apple requested them to remove old copies of mac system software from theie websites! Puh-leeasee!!! RacerX, your links ARE working! :D thanks man!
 
Windows 1.0 and 3.1 and 3.11 are entirely different in many aspects. Being born in 1986 and getting into computers at age 2 seriously was a big factor I remember. My father worked for IBM and other companies and always had OS's out his ass. We have every version of OS/2 (now we're talkin old) ever made, every version of windows down to backoffice 2000 etc., every version of MS-DOS and DOS, and tons of other stuff liek AOL 1.0 disks. Windows 1.0 can be found as abandonware on some sites. If anyone wants a copy of some nostalgia, we still have it all. All the OS's, all the software, all before CDKEYs were around....so let me know at vveneziani@mac.com if youd like some. Still lookin for MacOS 1.0 though!


and oh wow. I remember back in 1991 I knew a kid named Eric. He has an old old old old Macintosh with some cool games and shit on it and all I could do is say how my PC was better than his computer. I had a 486 33mhz DX from Gateway 2000 at the time with 16mb (a lot trust me) of ram and a 1mb video card....not to mention 1gb of hard drive space.


Jesus if only I knew the power of a mac back then....I know I sure as hell loved my elementary school. We had about 12 Apple IIs with Load Runner, Learning Programs, and Print Shop Pro. And get this, even the class I was in for the gifted was called APPLE. No joke. It still exists. We also had a mac with a mouse that had a game called Midnight Rescue and....and....god I miss my youth! :-o
 
drunkmac said:
...not to mention 1gb of hard drive space.
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We also had a mac with a mouse that had a game called Midnight Rescue and....and....god I miss my youth! :-o
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I think you meant a 1 mb of hard drive space.

As for Midnight Rescue - the game still exists. ;)

In fact I am using it on machines running OS 8. Kids still love it. And Morty is at it again in Mission: Think. Popular games with the elemntary school kids. :)
 
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