³ Thanks I hope to enjoy it. It certainly brings back memories of when I got my ³ first PC.
³ Hell the funny thing is I can still tell you the stats for my first PC (but not
³ any machines
³ after that).
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LOL, I think I can also.

8088-XT clone with 640k RAM, a 5.25 floppy, and a 20MB HD, running MS-DOS
3.3. CGA color graphics.

The second was a 386 DX 40 with 1 MB RAM (which I immediately upgraded to
4MB), a 120MB HD, 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives, running MS-DOS 5.0. I very shortly after added Desqview to it. I don't remember if it had VGA or
SVGA, though. ;)

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Wow, DESQview. Now that is something I haven't heard in a long time. It was interesting times when that stuff was out. I remember using a Windows 3.1
with a PC Tools desktop replacement that had features that were way ahead of it's time (Virtual Desktops), the ability to have folders on the desktop,
hell the ability to have a folder that had a filter of files in a directory
(so you could point it to say c:\files with a filter of *.txt and only get
text files), and a bunch of other things included. I still say that desktop
was better than what showed up when Win95 came out, and it was running on
top of Windows 3.1 go figure.

MIKE POWELL wrote to NBLADE <=-

The second was a 386 DX 40 with 1 MB RAM (which I immediately upgraded
to 4MB), a 120MB HD, 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives, running MS-DOS 5.0. I very shortly after added Desqview to it. I don't remember if it had
VGA or SVGA, though. ;)

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Re: Screaming Into The Void
By: nblade to MIKE POWELL on Fri Jan 02 2026 09:44 am

Wow, DESQview. Now that is something I haven't heard in a long time. It was interesting times when that stuff was out. I remember using a Windows 3.1 with a PC Tools desktop replacement that had features that were way ahead of it's time (Virtual Desktops), the ability to have folders on the desktop, hell the ability to have a folder that had a filter of files in a directory (so you could point it to say c:\files with a filter of *.txt and only get text files), and a bunch of other things included. I still say that desktop was better than what showed up when Win95 came out, and it was running on top of Windows 3.1 go figure.

That's cool. I didn't know PC Tools made a desktop replacement for Windows 3.1.. When I used Windows 3.1, there were one or two desktop enhancements I remember using - I don't remember which it was, but I remember something where one of the features was displaying the time in the top border of any application, which I thought was useful (Windows 3.1 didn't have a bottom taskbar to show the time).

I still like desktop enhancements like that when I can find them.

Nightfox
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