I like how that box for Windows 3.1 is so old that it has circled back around and become modern minimalism. It would not look out of place at all on a shelf today. Except the .... box ... on a shelf.. For software.. Part.. But you know, *theoretically* would not look out of place on a shelf today.

@TheHmm43

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing!

@eurocrusader1724

5 жыл бұрын

You aint seen minimalism yet...Go look at the gui of an An Atari ST The average desert looks a well compared to this shit...And before you say"it aint a pc" , we talking about graphical Oses..

@Mythricia1988

5 жыл бұрын

@@eurocrusader1724 I was talking about the box art.

@kemy6775

5 жыл бұрын

My sister had this. And the old Office huge box with all the manuals inside. They do hold up now with the minimalism.

@neoasura

5 жыл бұрын

I always loved the white minimalism designs of games back then. If it was just a white box with a title on it..I had to go over to see what it was on the back..it always got my curiosity.

Love that Techmoan puppet mug!

@Thiesi

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I just saw that too. So nice!

@ms_enj

5 жыл бұрын

Flippin’ ‘eck!

@CrimsonSanX

5 жыл бұрын

What if I told you there were two of them?

@repatch43

5 жыл бұрын

I'm always a little disappointed when I watch a Techmoan video and it DOESN'T have the "Funny Puppet Segment". :)

@k.k.poptart7469

5 жыл бұрын

keremizgol I was going to say the same thing! 😄

TV/movies are so crappy now it's more entertaining to watch someone install Windows 3.0.

@Loenne555

5 жыл бұрын

amaxamon oh so true!

@retrodreams2428

4 жыл бұрын

amaxamon I've never agreed more!

@SB-qm5wg

4 жыл бұрын

yep..

@EliasDeFilippo

4 жыл бұрын

3.1*****

@TerrisLP

4 жыл бұрын

You aint wrong

Thing I never expected to hear: "man, that is one clean ball bay."

@aidancommenting

4 жыл бұрын

Did.. Did he blow the dust off it?

@BigboiiTone

3 жыл бұрын

Your mom has said it many times. Sorry lol

@erice3933

3 жыл бұрын

That is a new one for me too. I'm used to hearing, "That is one smooth ball bay"

@janetcupp467

3 жыл бұрын

😂

Shameful product placement: Techmoan mug. And now I want one, too ;)

@ZakTDuck

5 жыл бұрын

Flippin 'eck!

@prismstudios001

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome...but who makes those rockin speakers?

@miesesomar

5 жыл бұрын

Shut it! MOAN REPRESENT! edit: then he flipped it to the other side. Sort of a two-fer easter egg.

@LMacNeill

5 жыл бұрын

"And now I want one, too" Right?! My first thought was, "Where can I buy one of those?!"

@bredmond812

5 жыл бұрын

I dunno. Techmoan is kinda hard on the 8-bit guy. He should leave him alone.

God, that little "ta-dah!" noise is just the cutest damn thing.

@9852323

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@FraTac

2 ай бұрын

Yeah! That sound was actually used until Windows XP, and was replaced with a newer (and more boring) version on Vista.

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

@RowanBird779

Жыл бұрын

I had a Phenom II X2 550 based PC in 2017 - 2022 😂

@knartfocker_

Жыл бұрын

@@RowanBird779 uhh what?

@scinatit

Жыл бұрын

I had a windows 98 in 2003 Lol

@SandboxerSandy

Жыл бұрын

​@@knartfocker_ that's an OLD pc not hard to understand

@knartfocker_

Жыл бұрын

@@SandboxerSandy as old as a 90s pc? Nope...

14:55 My friends and I used to have an unreasonable amount of fun making Igor say absurd things. Mashing the keyboard to put a string of useless noises in his mouth was a personal favorite.

@matinsveismans

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@pafawag5b6b5b

3 жыл бұрын

you!

@matinsveismans

3 жыл бұрын

Whats wrong?

@pafawag5b6b5b

3 жыл бұрын

@@matinsveismans not you, him. I always write that if I see a comment from a verified person that has not many likes / replies

@MIchaelArlowe

3 жыл бұрын

Soisoisoisoisoi

Fun fact: the way a window is closed, by double clicking the top left corner of it, still works in every modern Windows version up to 10!

@PointReflex

5 жыл бұрын

That Twilight Zone feeling... when you realize hes right. D:

@DeaDGoD_XIV

5 жыл бұрын

I still close windows that way because 3.1 was my first Windows OS

@pleasedontwatchthese9593

5 жыл бұрын

I have seen old people do this. Now I know why

@AlphaCore_

5 жыл бұрын

What is this sorcery!?

@TheAdatto

5 жыл бұрын

Or maximizing a Window by double click the top

I can't believe I'm getting all nostalgic about a version of Windows. I spent several years with WFWG 3.11/Dos 6.22 and they were happy days.

@NathanDavisVideos

2 жыл бұрын

I don't why; but I kinda am too! (Even though my first experience with us owning a new PC with a GUI was having Windows 98 Second Edition...)

You may laugh at the instructions on how to use a mouse but my friend when he first saw my Amiga 500 and it's Mouse picked it up and started sliding it across the screen asking what does this do

@OFICIALBestPlayer

2 жыл бұрын

It is weird how used to we are to these things nowdays, but this probably made sense to him that time.

@TheCodeTinkerer

2 жыл бұрын

"computer this is scotty"

“That’s one clean ball bay!” -LGR 2019

I love when LGR talks about his mouse balls.

@Mick_92

5 жыл бұрын

"I've got balls of rubber"

@txe1nd

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@actionknight93

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mick_92 I read that in Duke's voice

7:17 I like how they have illustrated an "ergonomic" mouse being used incorrectly with the left hand.

@danem2215

4 жыл бұрын

I'm left handed and those mice were not made for people like me.

@emrecimen8161

4 жыл бұрын

Discriminate left handers is what bill gate and his ms friends calls ergonomics.

@ethanknuckleschannel8569

4 жыл бұрын

@@danem2215 OK?

@wohlhabendermanager

3 жыл бұрын

@@danem2215 Mice like these is why a left-handed friend of mine taught himself to use a mouse with his right hand

@danem2215

3 жыл бұрын

@@wohlhabendermanager I always used a mouse with my right hand, even though I never had a mouse this biased against me. Too used to it to change now. I might even have a leg up since typing is largely left handed and gaming with your dominant hand seems better. Hard to imagine doing WASD with the right one.

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.

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.

@lftdblazer

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, me too. We had Type to Learn and played The Oregon Trail. Dont remember the math game. I can see the computer lab right now. We all worked on 3.1 til they got a few Win 95 machines. Only the cool kids got to use the 95's though. 😑

That dithered blue gradient setup background hits a specially nostalgic spot in my soul.

Dude i L.O.V.E. the new splash "LGR" graphic. Nice!

My first Windows was NT 4.0 because the machine used to belong to a lawyer. I'm typing this on the same keyboard that came with the machine, 25 years later! The keyboard is about all that survived but damn if it's not a fine-ass piece of tech - I'm glad to see you giving acknowledgement to OSes before 95 because it's something not a lot of people, even in the retro tech world, cover.

Clint, I remember what happened the last time you had a text screensaver...seems like you remembered too ;-)

@pwnrz8684

3 жыл бұрын

TShut TUp TNow

@countrybloxcool

3 жыл бұрын

Windows 3.1 DOES compute

Ahhh, the early 90s. Probably my favorite and most nostalgic era of computing.

@fountaincap

5 жыл бұрын

@blackkey1976 Yeah, I think social media was the turning point. The analogy I use is that computing and the Internet of the 90s was like a small, friendly town, where life felt innocent and safe, even though there wasn't much going on. Present day computing is like the dystopian Los Angeles of the Blade Runner universe - busting, lots to see and do, a feast for the senses, but you always feel like you have to be on your guard.

Ah man, those harsh, old computer sounds. That's really nostalgic. Makes me happy just hearing the thing working.

@CakeLorde

5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the good old days before the uprising

@driftercarbon

5 жыл бұрын

@@CakeLorde XD

@Luisramcantu

5 жыл бұрын

He needs to make a vid on late 90s apple computers. I mean, those Perfoma/ MacOS sounds where marvelous. I just miss the era where computers comunicate more through sound feedback.

That was literally my first mouse! The serial port Microsoft mouse. And I still remember the mechanism that held the ball inside, for a 7-year-old me getting the ball out of that mouse was a fascinating experience.

Man, this SERIOUSLY takes me back. My very first computer was a 3.1/3.11 one, and I definitely remember some of the weird built-in games and programs it had. I also remember playing a lot of odd DOS games like Sorcerian and Pinball 2000. Thanks for putting a big smile on my face with this. =)

That isn't a computer. That is a time machine and took me back to my childhood. :)

@almostliterally593

5 жыл бұрын

Antonio Francisco Magaña Gómez its a computer

@ixionn563

5 жыл бұрын

@@almostliterally593 What's a computer?

@antihumor2231

5 жыл бұрын

@@ixionn563 Go to Wikipedia.

@TheBodgybrothers

5 жыл бұрын

what's a wikipedia?

@AlTheJuggernaut

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheBodgybrothers what's a internet?

22 and a half minutes of 486 Win 3.1 nostalgia... and all I can remember is the Techmoan mug

Woah. This brought back some memories. Especially the mouse stuff. I remember helping my dad teach people to use computers when he still worked for CompUSA. There were a surprising amount of people who simply could not hold the mouse mouse still while double clicking. x_x

Windows 3.1 was the first computer I experienced as a 7 year old. This video brings back so many memories. I used to listen to a Korn CD with headphones plugged in and zone out to the flying windows screen saver.

As much as I appreciate the Techmoan mug, pouring fluid over a Model M terrifies me to my core.

@amadeus484

5 жыл бұрын

At least he didn't smear peanut butter on it...

@AndrewAMartin

5 жыл бұрын

Not to worry -- friend of mine spilled Coke on her Model M keyboard once, unplugged it promptly, took it down the hall and rinsed in the dorm's bathroom sink, let it dry overnight, and it was fine.

@KrazyKupo

5 жыл бұрын

Extreme marketing.

@phatkatracing

5 жыл бұрын

I've heard legend that the Model M can be safely cleaned in the dishwasher. No heated dry, of course.

@reaper15a

5 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewAMartin Yup, one of the first PC / Electronics shops I ever worked in. We would have business clients calling about their keyboards not working because someone spilled stuff on them. And most of them were Model M's or Clones. We would disconnect the cable from them, throw them in the dishwasher and let them dry for 48 hours, and they always worked good as new.

"Fine! I'll go write my own floppy drive! With Blackjack! And Hookers!"

@jazmania

5 жыл бұрын

Infact forget the blackjack!

@Chozo_Ghost

5 жыл бұрын

@@jazmania "Ah, screw the whole thing."

@Fireship1

5 жыл бұрын

Chozo Ghost Bender!

@harzanarumi1596

5 жыл бұрын

readyyyyyyyyy

@InhabitantOfOddworld

5 жыл бұрын

🎵 We're whalers on the moon...🎵

3.1 was my first as well... you never forget your first..

Pouring coffee over a model m. You live dangerously sir.

@CardboardSliver

4 жыл бұрын

You're not a true Windows user unless you've poured a drink over your keyboard.

@voca-chan7953

4 жыл бұрын

Cardboard Sliver True, I’ve spilt stuff on my keyboard before

@CardboardSliver

4 жыл бұрын

As have I. Several times lol

@DavidWonn

4 жыл бұрын

Cardboard Sliver I once accidentally spilled tea on a midframe AS/400 keyboard at work. I took the keyboard home, removed all the keycaps, sprayed it off with a water hose, dried it off, took it back to work, and it worked like new.

@AxellTh

4 жыл бұрын

yes, I held my breath there too.

Print Shop... oh man... SO many memories. Thanks for treating those nostalgic times with such respect.

Man, I remembering upgrading from 3.1 to 95 on 13 floppy diskettes.

@DesertRainReads

5 жыл бұрын

Me too, damn that was good times. Windows 95 was mindblowing back in the day.

@alimombali2035

5 жыл бұрын

Only 13? I had Windows 95 on (I believe) 33 floppies!

Omfg!!!!! LODE RUNNER I’ve been looking for this game forever .. I remember playing this when I was 7 years old ☹️ time flys

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!

This video was like Christmas for my inner nerd. Hands down the best way how to spend 22 minutes ona Friday afternoon :-)

15:07 "Flippin' 'Eck!" It's TECHMOAN's MUG!

Accidentally left captions on from a previous video, and I must say, these are some of the most finely crafted I've ever read. Probably going to turn them on for all future videos, good job!

I seem to recall disk 7 being entirely for printer drivers. That's likely why you didn't need it.

It's been years since I've been following but man, always gets me how genuine you are.

@WR3ND

5 жыл бұрын

I think he's gotten better at it along with his showmanship style.

The Techmoan puppet segments are so good, they’re sneaking into other great channels as well.

@BigboiiTone

3 жыл бұрын

yes

Same monitor I had but my system was a lowly Packard Smell 486 SX25. I also ran Win 3.1 on DOS 5. But then I found the AMAZING Norton Desktop for Windows. It takes 3.1 to the next level. It was windows done right. Alas, I grew up, and I turned to Linux. Thanks for the fun videos!

Ten years from now: "Today Im going to install WinXP with service pack 2 on my Pentium 4 with hyperthreading"

@AgentTasmania

5 жыл бұрын

d ph Except he already built an ultimate XP machine a few months back. SP3 on Core 2 Extreme

@turnip5359

5 жыл бұрын

Nobody: Pentium 4: I think I'm going to run at the temperature of the Earth's core

@WR3ND

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, about 2 years ago. XP Pro on my AIO liquid cooled 478 pin Pentium 4 EE with that sweet AGP 8x action. Need to still do a few upgrades on it though, when I get around to it. I'm just glad RGB was never cool, so I don't have to worry about it having retro appeal.

@WR3ND

4 жыл бұрын

Soon Windows 7 and my current PC will pass into the retro history hall of fame and I will be living in the glorious post modern past, or on Linux. Been using Manjaro this year on newer laptops and Debian for like 6 years on servers and VMs. The desktop PC as we know it is being slowly eroded away in favor of social engineering and cloud computing services. It might have 10 years left.

@ethanknuckleschannel8569

4 жыл бұрын

@@WR3ND OK but windows 7 has nothing to do with this tho

Shout out if you grew up on Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.

@ruraladventurer1884

5 жыл бұрын

I was about 14 when I upgraded my 486 SX2 50mhz monster from Win 3.1 to Win 3.11. I really had no idea what the improvements were... I just knew that I NEEDED it.

@005AGIMA

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. lol I even recall I was going for an IT sames job. The interview had gone a little stagnant. The company director (small company) said "So what are you running at home?" I spouted "Oh just a 486SX33 with SB16 Sound Card running Windows 3.11 with 32 Bit extensions." The director looked at the support engineer, who looked back at the director. I got the job.

@waterbottle4782

5 жыл бұрын

But but but I first used a Microsoft operating system of DOS 3.2 sans windows. QQ

@CasioMaker

5 жыл бұрын

Brings back memories from computer classes back in primary school!

@LutzHeidbrink

4 жыл бұрын

I switched from an C-64, 1992 to an 386/40 from AMD with 4MB Ram and an 80MB WD Cavier. I really forgot if I had Windows 3.1 but 3.11 I remember very well, playing Civilization over a 14K Modem with a guy in the next city lol I think that was 1995, at that time I had an 133 Mhz Amd overclocked to 160 Mhz. That was such a beast compared to my 386 ;) Good times, does someone remember the FIDO Net? That was the source of my Windows95 beta on I think 35 Floppy Disks, wich took forever to download. My parents kicked me out after that lol

Ah, Windows 3.1 one of my first experiences with Windows, I played Solitaire, Minesweeper, Tetris, and tons of shareware games.

@mrmactknife

5 жыл бұрын

I could never understand how to play Minesweeper? :(

@Markimark151

5 жыл бұрын

mrmactknife it’s a mind game that you have to avoid the touching the mines with the numbers that correspond to its proximity. It’s kind of hard.

Thanks LGR for uploading it. Win 3.1 was the first OS I ever used back in the early-to-mid 90s, thanks to my dad, who was a software engineer. He'd LOVE to watch ur content! RIP Dad.

Dude, you just triggered so much nostalgia in me. I still remember playing those arcade games on our old computer with either win 3.1 or 3.11 (can't remember) before I could even read. All those sounds just took me back. Exactly how I remember them.

The Techmoan mug is awesome.

The star screensaver pulled a nostalgia string I didn’t know could exist for someone born in 98. My school didn’t upgrade their tech for a very long time.

@LiborTinka

5 жыл бұрын

I remember playing with it as a kid, being almost hypnotized, changing the amount of stars and different speeds.

@ZipplyZane

5 жыл бұрын

I remember one of the many cheap disks I would get having a version that added colored stars and other stuff. I think it may have let you change options while it was onscreen, and allowed adding Star Trek sounds.

@Nirvana24826

5 жыл бұрын

I think I ended up using Windows XP (my school didn't upgrade too much either) from 2003 until 2013/2014 and was so different going from that to 7 to 10. Would be interesting to try out these older versions of Windows sometime. Love watching his excitement for this stuff and I find it so fascinating and enjoyable.

@VengefulNonsense

5 жыл бұрын

Well, Windows had that screensaver up until XP. So perhaps the computers weren't all the outdated.

Fun fact: that "spinning gear" item seen while Print Shop Deluxe was installing is called a "throbber".

Love how you use Canyon.mid for every sound test.

That mouse sure brings me back, had the exact same one on my fathers computer! it was quite ergonomic for the time.

Yay New LGR 486 Video! **Updates WoodGrain 486 playlist**

This was my first computer OS on a machine my dad made ( I was too young to know what brand all the things were). I haven't seen this is FOREVER! ^^ So nice to see it again! Thank you!

i always enjoyed your videos. thanks for existing, LGR!

This takes me back. Which is pretty much the idea of this channel summed up in four words.

8:06 Yep he smelled the thing..... now the video can truly begin! LOL

@pongod5751

5 жыл бұрын

I can relate. I smell everything out of the package

@WR3ND

5 жыл бұрын

Like #69 - my work here is done. 8\

@bz4413

5 жыл бұрын

Phoenixesper1 mmm those noxious packaging fumes

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.

Print Shop Deluxe!!! I completely forget about that! You've just brought back some amazing memories!

The coffee mug totally yells "Flippin'egg!"

@gimble8638

5 жыл бұрын

its flippin eck (flipping heck) unless your making a joke about eggs i dont get bud :) but im guessing your not a brit tbh and mishearing/completely misunderstanding lol :)

"Wrote my own disk with blackjack and hookers!" I laughed way harder than I should have at that.

@syxepop

5 жыл бұрын

That would be a shoutout to "Bender Rodriguez", the SOB robot from Futurama...

@spugintrntl

5 жыл бұрын

@@syxepop Yeah. I know. Hence why I laughed.

Thanks for the nostalgia trip! Print Shop Deluxe was the bomb, fond memories of me and my neighbour spending hours on the computer with it as children!

Clint, the Lode Runner and Microsoft Arcade brought back some memories, thanks for making this video.

For me the ultimate version of WIndows 3.x is Windows 3.2, which was only released for the Chinese market

That Sierra intro brings back so much memories! ❤️

Serious nostalgia, but I have to admit starting my PC years with DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.11.

Man, Print shop Delux brings back alot of memories of my childhood. Thank you!

The way you said balls.. sounds like Duke Nukem lol

Windows 3.1 was mine too. My dad's computer had it. Such a cozy OS.

@the.internet

5 жыл бұрын

Cozy is a good word to describe it. It was on the PCs at my school, my first Windows PC was running Windows 95. I had very fond memories of 3.1, installing games on school PCs, playing around with QBasic, etc. I loved the UI of 3.1. Very minimalistic and I rather wished I had the option in 95 to display windows the way 3.1 did with its bold fonts under dropdown menus, the minimize icon on the left. Cozy indeed.

Great video Clint. Windows 3.11 was my first graphical operating system. Windows 3.11 was pre installed on the Packard bell computer that my parents bought for me in 1994.

We used to find widows 3 so clunky that we stuck to DOS and used a program called Automaxx to lauch all our programs from a configurable splash page after boot.

@soundguydon

5 жыл бұрын

Yep.. I used batch files for certain things, and a program called "Stereo Shell" for working in the file system, and a program called "LIST" (yep, that was the name) for viewing text files. I had a metric s**t ton of disks back then.. Looking back, I wish I'd kept my old computers.. Aah well.

@gonzo4007

4 жыл бұрын

Where can I find more information on Automaxx?

My family's first computer was a Packard Bell with Windows 3.11 on it. Ah, the memories...

@EvilTurkeySlices

5 жыл бұрын

My Family’s first PC was a Gateway 2000 with a 386SX. I flooded the bathtub and water leaked on top of it. We then had another Gateway 2000 that was fairly similar and I broke it by typing a lot of keys on the keyboard(don’t know what I did) we then got an AMD k6-2 PC at some point, then my dad gave it to my grandfather who just recently gave it back to me.

@Paganinifire

5 жыл бұрын

Wow what trash... im an elite soo excuse me

@VenomStryker

5 жыл бұрын

Same. My uncle had one in his wood shop and we used to play DOOM on it. Then we got one about a year later.

You tubes new logic for inserting ads in the middle of a video is hopelessly broken. They drop ads right in the middle of you speaking a sentence and it's jarring.

@johnfrancisdoe1563

5 жыл бұрын

Kevin Loughin Also, no way to indicate a specific ad is not interesting and won't generate saleable clicks from me.

@hotjazzbaby

5 жыл бұрын

They do this in the middle of music tracks too

@rodrigoacosta9708

5 жыл бұрын

Well, they try this way, to force you to subscribe to the KZread Premium service...

@simontay4851

5 жыл бұрын

use ad block! im watching youtube in the browser, not the application on my android tablet. I don't get any ads.

@loughkb

5 жыл бұрын

@@simontay4851 and the video creators you watch are not getting paid for your views. Like LGR, I earn my living through you tube. More than 53 percent of my views are lost income due to ad blockers. We don't make that much as it is. Its not a good paying job. You might reconsider if you enjoy the entertainment we toil to make for you.

Thanks for the video; it brought back memories. My first PC ever was a 486SX/25 with a paltry 4MB of RAM and 170MB of disk space in 1993. It came with Windows 3.1 and that was my computing world for a couple of years until I upgraded to Windows 95 and discovered Linux. I didn't have an actual boxed copy of the OS but I DID buy that exact Sound Blaster Pro box and seeing you install that software brought back even more memories. I still have the machine, even; I could probably restore it and get it going but it wouldn't be worth it without period-accurate peripherals, which I don't have.

I actually remember installing this on my very first PC in 1993. I was 8. I didn't get out much.

very natural coffee pour does not seem suspicious in the least I also enjoy my mug handles being hard to reach

"Ah! It's so pink!" - That is, indeed, what she said.

Good memories and flashbacks man, excellent job and video.

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.

My first Windows was 3.11 back in the day, great vid!

@AndrewAMartin

5 жыл бұрын

My first PC was an 8 MHz 286 that came with Windows 1.01. Inspired by LGR, I reassembled my second PC (a 20 MHz 286) and installed Windows 1.01 on it -- still needs a little work (replacement CMOS battery), maybe I'll make a video of it. It'll take you back to 1987 or so...

@luke5957

5 жыл бұрын

Same, such a great OS

@DEMENTO01

5 жыл бұрын

SAME

My fam. fist PC was an AST with window 3.1. brings back memories.

@jeepjeep4762

5 жыл бұрын

No shit mine too! I have never met anyone else who had an AST machine.

@roxcyn

5 жыл бұрын

Nice, ours was a Packard Bell 486 with Windows 3.1 and we eventually upgraded to Windows 95.

Dude, seeing the menu and watching the images getting drawn in Print Shop was a huge nostalgia moment for me, I'd forgot all about that program entirely. I also used to go nuts playing around with it and wasting paper.

Your videos are keeping me sane in a rough time

I haven't watched the video yet, but this is going to take 22:34 out of my stressful life while I forget about my problems and am transported back to a simpler time and get lost in the sound of Clint's perfect radio voice. Thanks for making my day 22:34 less full of suck.

@Shytzedaka

5 жыл бұрын

yeet

Next up Windows 3.11 (windows for workgroups). That shaped my life in IT (that and Windows NT)

I remember having Windows 3.1 on my old 386 computer. It ran SOOOOOO poorly, that I seldom used it for anything other than "Afterdark" screen saver app or...well, I think that's it. I used DOS for everything else. But I LOVED that Afterdark screen saver program, I'd spend hours on it just goofing around with custom screen savers. Even that ran in slow motion, but back then I didn't know any better so I didn't care. I got so many nostalgic vibes watching this one. Thanks again!

I love your channel man, although my first computer was a pentium 2 machine but i really enjoy your content!

4:00 "Aliens Studied My Copy of Windows for 47 Straight Hours!" Alright, cool.

@bitwize

5 жыл бұрын

Not as unbelievable as the "Windows 3.1 reliable" headline.

Yay techmoan mug! Not often anymore is your monitor so dwarfed by your keyboard...lol

Very great! Brings up a lot of memories from the 90th. Next to my Soundblaster Pro, I installed a Turtle Beach Maui Wavetable card. Very great experience

OMG, my buds and I used to play with Talking Scheduler for hours. So nostalgic! Thanks for the great memories.

Ah, classic Windows 3.1, good to see a new video from you to help me get through the day Clint!

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.

@AlexParr

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was for the printer drivers.

@fattomandeibu

Жыл бұрын

Not just OS' but quite a few games did this, too. For instance, the original Worms was 3 disks, but disk 3 was only required if you chose French or German language during start-up(the first disk was bootable, and would request disk 2 or 3 after loading halfway, depending which language you chose) or installation.

I had never seen a pre-Windows '95 installation, so that was really fun to watch.

Loved this. Talking Scheduler is awesome.

“Three point eleven” just sounds weird having called it “three point one one” forever.

8:33 I played Doom for years on that exact type mouse. I loved the gloss finish.

@drdysl3xia795

4 жыл бұрын

When I would move the mouse to fast across the mouse pad the ball would bounce missing some of my moments and I would die.

This has all come flooding back to me... This is the thing my parents had on the old computer when I was 5ish. I know we had dos games as well, which I treasure, but these games I really played the hell out of.

Still come back to this video for nostalgia - being an 80s kid, DOS, and 16 bit Widows was a wonderland in the 90s :)