Name: LGR 486更新!開箱與安裝Windows 3.0系統 (LGR 486 Update! Unboxing & Installing Windows 3.0)
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Greetings and welcome to an LGR thing! And this is Microsoft Windows 3.0, not 3.1

not yet anyway. I wanted to take a look at this for a couple of reasons: one, I've been

meaning to install Windows in some form on my 486 Woodgrain PC for a long time now and

while the eventual goal is to put 3.1 or maybe 3.11 on there... that's what I eventually

want to do, but it might be an interesting detour to stop at Windows 3. Which was actually

released 28 years ago on the exact day I'm filming this: May 22nd, 1990 -- is when this

was released to manufacturing not when I'm recording this video. Contrary to some conspiracies,

I am NOT a time traveler so just ignore those IBM 5100s and flux capacitors you've seen

in my videos. Anyway, I wanted to install this because you know, I'm not terribly familiar

with it. I've used it a few times here and there over the years but as a kid, my first

version of Windows was 3.1. And while there's not a drastic difference between the Windows

3 and 3.1, there kind of is. I mean there are a lot of applications that will only work

with 3.1, in fact way more that will work with 3.1 only, and do not support 3.0. And

then of course there's just some different graphical features and things like that that

this had, and then 3.1 got rid of or improved upon in many ways. And I don't know I just

find that this release is kind of fascinating. Plus, I have a brand new sealed package here,

check that out. This is the three and a half inch US release of Windows 3.00 and it was

sold apparently by Forsythe Computers Incorporated in Saint Louis, Missouri for 149 dollars at

one point. “New! Breaks the 640k memory barrier. Unleash all the power of your PC!”

Yeah I definitely want to do that since my 486 has 16 megabytes of RAM. You can see the

sticker here has a special bonus, “Comes with Daybook, a personal organizer with a

runtime version of ToolBook™ by Asymetrix.” Don't know what that is yet, but we'll find

out. While I could admire this packaging all day I'm itching to get inside here and see

what we get. So let's do a bit of an unboxing before we get to setting everything up on

the 486. [slicing] Kind of wanna save that price sticker if I can. [plasticky noises]

Well, fell right off, that makes it easy. [more plastic noises] Mmm fresh retro Windows.

[cardboard being cardboard.] Man. So crispy, so enjoyable.

We’ll just pretend that never fell out of there. Mm, yeah that is packed to the brim. [sniff!]

Mmf. Smells like a library. So there's that Asymetrix runtime ToolBox™ software construction

set for Windows. Got the gigantic Windows 3 user guide here, good grief. Got a product

registration card. Well it’s less of a card and more of a substantial pamphlet. “Important

information read this first.” No thanks. Okay I don't remember seeing this as a thing.

Well, it's not really a magazine. It's more like a, yeah, 12 page monthly publication.

So I guess the Cobb Group had their own Windows newsletter. Aha yes, here we go the Microsoft

Windows 3.0 hardware compatibility list, this is fascinating. The following computers, video

displays, printers, pointing devices, keyboards, and networks have been certified for use with

Microsoft 3.0,” yes. Windows 3 can run on all these things. And pretty much this is

just effectively is a wish list for my collection these days, but a bunch of them, man. What

the heck happened to these things? Like what's what's the ALR Powerflex? That sounds like

an amazing computer. Or the Emerson ET200, didn't realize Emerson made computers. The

Goupil G5-SX? It has some Nokias in there, I've been trying to find like a Nokia, like,

MS-DOS computer just because it seems like that would be fun. Here's a very similar list

for all of the applications that Microsoft has tested to be working with Windows 3 or

have Windows 3-specific versions at this point in 1990. Of course, there were many more than

this that would work on Windows 3 but it's kind of neat to have a brand new operating

system at the time and they went out of their way to test so much stuff. Here's our proof

of license for Windows 3.00. Look how simple that is. Yeah these looked a little more simpler

than what happened with all the Microsoft license things later on -- the holograms and

all sorts of interesting print and security features. Not much going on there. And then

all this this is going to be the floppy disks. “Please, treat it as valuable property.”

I will do that, Microsoft in 1990, I will do that. “Before opening this disk packet

I should carefully read all that crap.” Let’s go ahead and get this disk packet

open here before we take a look at the manual or anything like that. [slicing away.] Oh

man. Wow these look great. They feel great too, these are quality disks. Alright, so

yeah “for DOS systems,” this is a full version of the thing you just Install this

on top of DOS. I have DOS 6.22 installed on the 486 so that is what we'll be upgrading

-- or really adding onto since Windows was more of a shell that ran on top of DOS at

this point and not a fully fledged operating system. So it does require DOS which is why

we're doing it in this order and subsequently we're going to be installing 3.1 on top of

this 3.0 installation in the future. I am curious about this, I’m absolutely not familiar

with this at all. So it looks like it comes with a personal organizer, a calendar, address

book, to-do list. But also this thing called ToolBook™ and that's what I'm more intrigued

by here. “With the full version of ToolBook™ You can easily create your own applications

without being a programmer.” I've used Windows 3.0 before like, it's installed on my IBM

PS/2 Model 90 486 XP thing. This on the other hand, yeah, we'll install this once we get

Windows installed and see what it does. And finally [plop] just want to take a look at

this manual here really quick because it's so large, it demands an audience. Heh! That's

the most appropriate, it has 640 pages. 640k barrier broken, 640 page barrier broken for

this manual. Wow. Ohh. Just absurd documentation, could you imagine getting a book like this

with Windows 10? Or anything these days from Microsoft that's not like some enterprise

solution kind of IT corporate business software. Anyway! That's one delightful mountain of

documentation. All right. Well now I know what Windows 3 comes with so let's hook up

the woodgrain 486 and get this baby installed. All right got the 46 turned on some disks

at the ready. Here we go. And it just said to type setup on the A: drive. “Welcome

to the Microsoft Windows version 3.00 setup.” We will install to “Windows.” Look at

this very classic Windows installer they used for seemingly forever. Okay, so let's see

what it has detected: MS-DOS, VGA. We do have SVGA, we'll just go with VGA for now. Sounds

good. And now to sit through the process of installing eight flop--no, seven floppy disks.

These are all 720 kilobyte, not high-density just double sided double density disks. And

I'm not sure, okay what is it doing here? The heck is this? No clue what that did on

the first disk there, but we'll try it again. You really just never know with floppy disks,

hehe. Even ones that were new, wrapped up and stuff. Okay well, that's what it was supposed

to do and “after setup installs Windows it will perform each of the following, check

procedures: setup printers, applications already on hard disk.“ Nope. Nope. Nope. Because

I don't want to do any of that, I don't have a printer attached right now. Although I hope

to address that in the future. So yeah, it seems to be fine now, we went from disk 2

onto disk 3 so, I'll just continue from here and pick back up once it's done installing.

Hm, didn't even ask for disk 7 just went straight to this. Needs to modify config.sys and autoexec.bat,

“make all modifications for me.” Yeah, go ahead. Reboot. I guess it's not gonna do

it for me, “Do it yourself,” it says. Okay, let's see what it did. We have Windows

over there and we just type in “WIN.” And it loaded so quickly we couldn't even

see the Windows 3.0 splash screen. What a shame, but I do still have that compact flash

storage device installed on here. So yeah, this is Windows 3.0. It is very much like

3.1 or 3.11 but a little simpler. The icons are different, a lot of the capabilities are

different as I mentioned earlier, but we’ll see if we can add a little bit of color here.

Ha ha, fluorescent. Yes [chuckles] cuz why not? Oh, these color schemes are not great.

I remember pastel. I guess we're just gonna put it right back to where it was. We got

a bunch of fonts. Well, actually not a bunch. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 fonts. We can access our PORTS.

And our MOUSE. And our DESKTOP. I remember some of these patterns being kind of interesting.