So this occurred to me... the furthest I went back to regarding past versions of Windows is when I ran Windows 3.11 in DOSBox-X. I haven't ran Windows 1.x (1985) or 2.x (1987) at all.
Then again, I do remember seeing something along the lines of, "Windows 3.1 was when Microsoft Windows started to be taken seriously as a GUI operating system."
So... if Windows 95 made Windows a household name, then #Windows31 and its GUI improvements planted the seeds for that success... right?
When I was around 8, I wrote a little manual on how to start the computer and open up CorelDraw. If I remember correctly, it was meant for my younger brother. Looks like I confused left and right though—it clearly must have been a double-click using the LEFT mouse button. #retrocomputing#windows31#msdos
no hard drive, i think i have a period appropriate replacement that may even work
it looks like a scrapper rather violently removed all the cables except power, dislodging the expansion riser in the process
so i have to replace all those, dunno if i still have a stash of them somewhere
has a 12-10-92 date stamp on the case cover, chips on the board have date stamps as late as 40th week 1992, so looks like this thing was built in Oct 1992
perhaps this was someones Christmas '92 present 🎄🎁
CDROM has a manufacture date of Jan 1993, so it was upgraded quickly or perhaps it sold later as a post-christmas clearance deal 🙃
this probably came with Windows 3.1, and would have been a fairly high end machine at the time