[dba-Tech] Windows Marketing begins...

[John R Bartow]

Hi Gustav,
I stand corrected, er, sit corrected ;-) A small typo there.

I was actually quite unaware of this event as I was without computer
exposure from late 1980 (when I the mid/mini range computer scene) until
1986 (when I reentered the MS-DOS & Unix scene, both with Word Perfect and
Lotus 1-2-3.)

I can't even imagine how useless it was given the marketing clip!
Regards - John

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Gustav Brock
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 1:01 PM
To: 'Off Topic'; 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows Marketing begins...

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