From: Deeply Filled Mortician 
Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe uk.finance uk.rec.driving
Subject: Re: Motorists hit by card clone scam
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:42:29 +0200

Make credence recognised that on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:23:29 GMT, "PC
Paul"  has scripted:

>tim..... wrote:
>> "Magda"  wrote in message
>> news:u71n23h5dn7fq4ja1es98glmk3fgtfuuhr@4ax.com...
>>> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:38:52 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, "Tim"
>>>  arranged some
>>> electrons, so they looked like this:
>>>
>>> ... > Graham Murray wrote
>>> ... > ... The IBM PC was launched in 1981,
>>> ... > 26 years ago. Windows was later than that,
>>> ... >
>>> ... "Magda" wrote
>>> ... > 1992, I think.
>>> ...
>>> ... Don't be silly! - Win3.1 was already out by then.
>>> ... Windows v1 was out in the '80s...
>>>
>>> No way.
>>
>> November 1983 to be precise
>>
>> http://www.oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/timeline.htm
>>
>> Almost nobody used it
>
>3.1 was the first 'useful' version. Although the command line still has it's 
>uses. I was writing a commercial Windows App just the other day that uses it 
>'under the hood' as there are still things Windows is just no good at.

Wow, I haven't done that for years! Care to let us in on what you did?
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