Some very basic 1980s education on using mice and mouse icons on Windows 2.x
Your assumed knowledge — if you got left behind in the 1990s, here's what you missed.
I did like that question mark icon — it was kind of friendly and confident. Windows arrow, you're drunk.
A description of how to reverse the minimise process on "icons" sitting in the desktop in Windows 2.x, which was how things looked for a while before 1995. It involved Alt-Tab if you didn't have a mouse. But nobody used it.
Behold, the origin of Alt-Tab
It's really grown a lot in 40 years
Manual snippet shows: - Restore is Alt+F5 - Move is Alt+F7 - Size is Alt+F8 - Minimise is Alt+F9 - Maximise is Alt+F10 - and Close, you know
Did you know Alt+F4 had friends?
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A manual page snippet, showing the keyboard shortcuts in 1988 were Alt+Spacebar then C, or Alt+F then X (File Menu > Exit), or Alt+F4 (no change there). If you wanted to use a mouse, you'd go to the top-left corner and double-click, slightly similar to Mac.
Windows 2.x: How to Close a Window
There will be a test.
Mac users should be able to figure this one out.
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Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 2.0 - #tech #nostalgia #retro #windows2
Dos meses después Apple afirmó que Microsoft había infringido 17000 de sus derechos de Copyright pero la corte dijo que el acuerdo otorgaba a Microsoft el derecho a utilizar todos excepto 9 de los derechos de Apple
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Se distribuía en 9 disquetes de 5.25” de 360 Kb. o 5 disquetes de 3.5” de 720 Kb. Se lanzó en esta fecha para coincidir con el aniversario de la “Madre de todas las Demos”
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El 9 de Dic de 1987, Microsoft lanza la segunda versión de su entorno operativo Windows
Contaba con una interfase de 16 bits y sucedida por Windows/286 y Windows/386 y comenzó a ser popular debido a las nuevas aplicaciones que incluía Excel y Word para Windows
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