From: "RAK" 
Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe uk.finance uk.rec.driving
Subject: Re: Motorists hit by card clone scam
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:16:17 +0100


"tim....."  wrote in message 
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> "Magda"  wrote in message 
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>> 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
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> Almost nobody used it
>
> tim
>
They announced it it Nov 83, but did not release/sell it until Nov 85 as a 
GUI front-end to DOS.
I don't think announcing some future event is the same as it happening.
And it wasn't much use until Win 3.0 (well, to me anyway) and did not become 
popular until 3.1 in April 92. 



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