[dba-Tech] Windows Marketing begins...

[Gustav Brock]

Hi John

Not exactly. 
Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985 - exactly 30 years ago on this day.

A great video. Times has changed for sure.

I worked those days as a copywriter at McCann, a large international advertising agency. My director has got a copy and fired it up on an IBM PC AT hooked up with the IBM LAN preceding IBM PC LAN - it was RF based but I can't recall the name. 
Anyway, it was terribly slow, close to not being useful for anything serious. But it was fun. For real work we used WordPerfect 4 as anybody else.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af John R Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net>
Sendt: 20. november 2015 18:42
Til: 'Off Topic'; 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Emne: [dba-Tech] Windows Marketing begins...

November 10, 1983 Bill introduces Windows 1.0. Ballmer tries to sell it:
https://youtu.be/tGvHNNOLnCk