Artifact Details

Title

Microsoft Windows version 1.0

Catalog Number

102798154

Type

Still image

Description

Photographs of this object was displayed in the Personal Computers section of CHM's Revolution exhibit with the following caption, "Windows was Microsoft’s answer to the Macintosh’s graphical user interface. It initially competed with VisiCorp’s VisiOn, Digital Research’s GEM, IBM’s TopView and others. Windows 1.0, running on top of MS-DOS and supporting only tiled rather than overlapping windows, wasn’t widely adopted."

Date

2010

Photographer

Richards, Mark

Extent

2

Collection Title

Mark Richards Collection

Credit

Gift of Mark Richards

Lot Number

X5763.2010