Windows1 (1985) PC XT Hercules

Ohhh the times when computers ask: "Keyboard not detected, press Enter to continue" WTF ??

If you were lucky to have one of these in your house, back in the days, you were fortunate and your parents most likely had a good job.

The heart rate increasing when you hear that retry noise from the floppy disk drive, and the relief when you see that the file number finally increased... oh my

It's amazing how much Notepad has not changed in almost 40 years.

For all those who are making fun of this, it was an awesome thing of its time. The graphical representation of tools like calculator, clock, notepad etc. was somthing people had never seen before. Show some respect. People worked their asses off to get pc to where it stands today.

I saw this computer in my grandmas house when I was 8 and I was like: This is the future.

Fun fact - windows1's explorer (MS-DOS Executive) still can run on windows 10 and even all of the functions is working.

I am in my 40's and it is super fun to see PC tech I could never afford as a kid.

this version is so old it's still displaying west germany on it

Just LOVE that sound of the floppy disk drive's motor running!

I always wanted to see this on actual hardware! Old computers fascinate me for reasons I can’t really explain. I guess it’s the historical factor, especially since digital history isn’t preserved as well as textbook history. It’s always a treat to see old tech and learn how it works.

This was ground breaking at the time. I can't tell you how exciting it was if you weren't around before this. We all take these things for granted now. In the late '70s my friend had a TRS-80 with 4k memory and you loaded a program every time you wanted to use it by command prompt LOAD while simultaneously pressing play on the tape recorder, hoping the volume was set to the right level to eventually load the program into memory.

Now imagine When you think about windows 10 in 2050.

The fact that a computer like this is still running at this day and age is amazing.

That is a very advanced machine for the era! I was working setting these up for the offices on the University of Iowa campus at this time. A Hercules card was a considerable step up from the IBM display card. The XT ran its 8088 processor at 8MHz, much faster than the original PC at 4.77. And a 40 MB HDD was a real luxury. Most had only 1 or 2 of the 360 KB FDDs. They came stock with just 64 KB RAM, but many upgraded to 256 KB. It wasn't till the AT came out that we saw much more than that. Our team probably set up 2000 of these bad boys.

It's great to see this again. This was an amazing tool for the PC at the time. I spent more time in MS-DOS since I was using the PC to connect to local BBS's but I used CARDFILE and WRITE a lot back then. Thank you for showing this on Youtube.

I'm crying. Many memories. So many sacrifices from many to achieve that wonder. The children of today despise her, without knowing that they are on the shoulders of giants.

Those days when pressing keys on a keyborad itself gave adrenalin rush. Felt like super geek.

That feeling that a window to another world was about to open, was real!❤

Wow, this takes me back to the beginning of my IT career! Before I even read the description I could tell a 5.25" floppy drive was in use by the sounds it makes. These were the days my friend.