> >: Re: Newsweek mentions VCFe and Sellam
> > http://www.msnbc.com/news/606595.asp?0nw=n18#hobby
>
> Hey. Very Nice, and well deserved I should add.
>
> The quiz asks "When was Windows first announced"
> the missing punch-line is When was it delivered? Wasn't
> this one of the most aggregious examples of vaporware,
> where the product didn't ship for -Years-?
In December 1983, I took a recent issue of some PC magazine
into a Radio Shack, and showed them the Radio Shack ad with
a picture of Windows 1.0 (or 0.75?) running on a Tandy 2000.
I said this is what I want. They said we have the computer
but we've never seen or heard of Windows. What's that?
I do recall when I finally got a copy to play with, late
'86 or early '87, but ISTR that Windows 2.0 shipped in '87.
-dq
Received on Thu Aug 02 2001 - 08:07:41 BST