LGR 486 Update! Installing & Enjoying Windows 3.1 

I like how that box for Windows 3.1 is so old that it has circled back around and become modern minimalism. It would not look out of place at all on a shelf today. Except the .... box ... on a shelf.. For software.. Part.. But you know, *theoretically* would not look out of place on a shelf today.

TV/movies are so crappy now it's more entertaining to watch someone install Windows 3.0.

Love that Techmoan puppet mug!

If you told me in 1999 that in 20 years Id be watching people install and use windows 3.1 on an HD video sharing service Id never have believed it

Thing I never expected to hear: "man, that is one clean ball bay."

That was my first computer when I was a kid, even though it was around 2002-2005 😂 (We basically lived like the 90s back then cuz of not having much money so everything we had was from the 90s including games and clothing) It makes me so happy and nostalgic seeing this again, I honestly want to go back

God, that little "ta-dah!" noise is just the cutest damn thing.

Shameful product placement: Techmoan mug. And now I want one, too ;)

I can't believe I'm getting all nostalgic about a version of Windows. I spent several years with WFWG 3.11/Dos 6.22 and they were happy days.

Windows 3.1 was the very first version of windows I used. I can still picture my classroom and the computers that ran Windows 3.1. For leisure time, our teacher let us play "Math Blaster" an interactive space game in which the character flew by jet pack and shot his green laser gun at enemies. The enemies were vanquished when you typed in the correct answer to a math problem. Simple times and awesome times.

14:55 My friends and I used to have an unreasonable amount of fun making Igor say absurd things. Mashing the keyboard to put a string of useless noises in his mouth was a personal favorite.

You may laugh at the instructions on how to use a mouse but my friend when he first saw my Amiga 500 and it's Mouse picked it up and started sliding it across the screen asking what does this do

7:17 I like how they have illustrated an "ergonomic" mouse being used incorrectly with the left hand.

That dithered blue gradient setup background hits a specially nostalgic spot in my soul.

Fun fact: the way a window is closed, by double clicking the top left corner of it, still works in every modern Windows version up to 10!

“That’s one clean ball bay!” -LGR 2019

Print Shop... oh man... SO many memories. Thanks for treating those nostalgic times with such respect.

My first Windows was NT 4.0 because the machine used to belong to a lawyer. I'm typing this on the same keyboard that came with the machine, 25 years later! The keyboard is about all that survived but damn if it's not a fine-ass piece of tech - I'm glad to see you giving acknowledgement to OSes before 95 because it's something not a lot of people, even in the retro tech world, cover.

That was literally my first mouse! The serial port Microsoft mouse. And I still remember the mechanism that held the ball inside, for a 7-year-old me getting the ball out of that mouse was a fascinating experience.

It's been years since I've been following but man, always gets me how genuine you are.

"Fine! I'll go write my own floppy drive! With Blackjack! And Hookers!"

I love when LGR talks about his mouse balls.

Man, this SERIOUSLY takes me back. My very first computer was a 3.1/3.11 one, and I definitely remember some of the weird built-in games and programs it had. I also remember playing a lot of odd DOS games like Sorcerian and Pinball 2000. Thanks for putting a big smile on my face with this. =)

Woah. This brought back some memories. Especially the mouse stuff. I remember helping my dad teach people to use computers when he still worked for CompUSA. There were a surprising amount of people who simply could not hold the mouse mouse still while double clicking. x_x

Ahhh, the early 90s. Probably my favorite and most nostalgic era of computing.

Dude i L.O.V.E. the new splash "LGR" graphic. Nice!

As much as I appreciate the Techmoan mug, pouring fluid over a Model M terrifies me to my core.

3.1 was my first as well... you never forget your first..

Omfg!!!!! LODE RUNNER I’ve been looking for this game forever .. I remember playing this when I was 7 years old ☹️ time flys

That isn't a computer. That is a time machine and took me back to my childhood. :)

The Techmoan puppet segments are so good, they’re sneaking into other great channels as well.

22 and a half minutes of 486 Win 3.1 nostalgia... and all I can remember is the Techmoan mug

Same monitor I had but my system was a lowly Packard Smell 486 SX25. I also ran Win 3.1 on DOS 5. But then I found the AMAZING Norton Desktop for Windows. It takes 3.1 to the next level. It was windows done right. Alas, I grew up, and I turned to Linux. Thanks for the fun videos!

Thanks LGR for uploading it. Win 3.1 was the first OS I ever used back in the early-to-mid 90s, thanks to my dad, who was a software engineer. He'd LOVE to watch ur content! RIP Dad.

Man, I remembering upgrading from 3.1 to 95 on 13 floppy diskettes.

This video was like Christmas for my inner nerd. Hands down the best way how to spend 22 minutes ona Friday afternoon :-)

Ah man, those harsh, old computer sounds. That's really nostalgic. Makes me happy just hearing the thing working.

Pouring coffee over a model m. You live dangerously sir.

The first PC I ever bought was when I was stationed in Hawaii back in the early 90s. It was a 386DX-33, and had Windows 3.0. The shop that sold it to me said that 3.1 was coming out, and promised a free upgrade when they got the software. I never saw the attraction in Windows at first (with 3.0) and once I upgraded, I still mostly used DOS, since most of the programs I used were still DOS. Anyway, this was a big "memory lane" video for me! Thanks!

The significance of those TrueType fonts can’t be overstated. They’d been introduced on the Mac OS, I wanna say about the time Win 3.0 was a new product. Microsoft licensed TrueType from Apple, included the tech in Win 3.1 and released a few sample fonts with the OS, including the mega-popular Ariel and Times New Roman. Before this, offices and home users wanting a printer had to decide whether they needed only simple printouts of basic-style invoices, reports, letters, etc, or if they needed desktop publishing capabilities, in which case they’d need an expensive, difficult-to-use printer that supported some type of scalable fonts, like Adobe’s infamous Type 1 PostScript fonts, which often had to be downloaded for specific print jobs from the PC to the printer, a process which many office managers would set in motion as they left for lunch, hoping to print some professional documents later that afternoon. It was beyond tedious and often required not only a special printer but also a dedicated PC or Mac. TrueType was a revolution. You could use the fonts on dot-matrix printers, and - even better! - on those fancy and cheap new ink-jets. Almost overnight, anyone with a 386 and a dot-matrix could create documents almost as good as brick-and-mortar print shops could do.

Ah, Windows 3.1 one of my first experiences with Windows, I played Solitaire, Minesweeper, Tetris, and tons of shareware games.

Clint, I remember what happened the last time you had a text screensaver...seems like you remembered too ;-)

My fam. fist PC was an AST with window 3.1. brings back memories.

Dude, you just triggered so much nostalgia in me. I still remember playing those arcade games on our old computer with either win 3.1 or 3.11 (can't remember) before I could even read. All those sounds just took me back. Exactly how I remember them.

I seem to recall disk 7 being entirely for printer drivers. That's likely why you didn't need it.

That mouse sure brings me back, had the exact same one on my fathers computer! it was quite ergonomic for the time.

"Wrote my own disk with blackjack and hookers!" I laughed way harder than I should have at that.

I haven't watched the video yet, but this is going to take 22:34 out of my stressful life while I forget about my problems and am transported back to a simpler time and get lost in the sound of Clint's perfect radio voice. Thanks for making my day 22:34 less full of suck.

This has all come flooding back to me... This is the thing my parents had on the old computer when I was 5ish. I know we had dos games as well, which I treasure, but these games I really played the hell out of.

Accidentally left captions on from a previous video, and I must say, these are some of the most finely crafted I've ever read. Probably going to turn them on for all future videos, good job!

This takes me back. Which is pretty much the idea of this channel summed up in four words.

The reason you rarely use the last installation disk, at here in England, is because that's where it keeps all the alternate language files. For instance, if your copy of Windows is American and you want to have the language be French, then you'd need to use that last disk to get the language files. Sometimes(for instance on the Amiga OS) this was called the Locale or Localization disk.

Print Shop Deluxe!!! I completely forget about that! You've just brought back some amazing memories!

Those original Microsoft branded mice were very comfortable to use. Takes me back to hangin' out in the computer lab in middle school circa '99-'00. They were old and ran Windows 3.11 and I remember using PrintShop all the damn time and hated it lol.

This is my childhood. My parents were small business owners with Windows 3.11 386 machine. Used Print Shop Deluxe III for everything having to do with the business. Printing out black and white graphics on a dot matrix printer, and it was miraculous stuff.

My family's first computer was a Packard Bell with Windows 3.11 on it. Ah, the memories...

very natural coffee pour does not seem suspicious in the least I also enjoy my mug handles being hard to reach

Ten years from now: "Today Im going to install WinXP with service pack 2 on my Pentium 4 with hyperthreading"

I love how the illustrations for the mouse show pictures of left-handed examples, and the mouse is right.

The 1st time I used Windows 3.1 was on my Dad's 386SX-20 laptop. We had it hooked up to a 12" IBM VGA monitor. I remember many hours spend with The Print Shop Deluxe and printing out many things with the then new HP DeskJet 540 printer. So many memories!

I remember when the Microsoft mouse came out. And YES they were high gloss in a time when ALL mice were matt finish. I remember wanting one because it was smooth , shiny and fit in the hand well.. BUT they were $69. And I thought that was a little too expensive for a mouse. I always used a plain old IBM mouse.

You tubes new logic for inserting ads in the middle of a video is hopelessly broken. They drop ads right in the middle of you speaking a sentence and it's jarring.

Serious nostalgia, but I have to admit starting my PC years with DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.11.

Great video Clint. Windows 3.11 was my first graphical operating system. Windows 3.11 was pre installed on the Packard bell computer that my parents bought for me in 1994.

OMG, my buds and I used to play with Talking Scheduler for hours. So nostalgic! Thanks for the great memories.

15:07 "Flippin' 'Eck!" It's TECHMOAN's MUG!

My first Windows was 3.11 back in the day, great vid!

We used to find widows 3 so clunky that we stuck to DOS and used a program called Automaxx to lauch all our programs from a configurable splash page after boot.

Clint, the Lode Runner and Microsoft Arcade brought back some memories, thanks for making this video.

Dude, seeing the menu and watching the images getting drawn in Print Shop was a huge nostalgia moment for me, I'd forgot all about that program entirely. I also used to go nuts playing around with it and wasting paper.

That Sierra intro brings back so much memories! ❤️

8:33 I played Doom for years on that exact type mouse. I loved the gloss finish.

Shout out if you grew up on Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.

I remember having Windows 3.1 on my old 386 computer. It ran SOOOOOO poorly, that I seldom used it for anything other than "Afterdark" screen saver app or...well, I think that's it. I used DOS for everything else. But I LOVED that Afterdark screen saver program, I'd spend hours on it just goofing around with custom screen savers. Even that ran in slow motion, but back then I didn't know any better so I didn't care. I got so many nostalgic vibes watching this one. Thanks again!

Man, Print shop Delux brings back alot of memories of my childhood. Thank you!

For me the ultimate version of WIndows 3.x is Windows 3.2, which was only released for the Chinese market

Fun fact: that "spinning gear" item seen while Print Shop Deluxe was installing is called a "throbber".

The star screensaver pulled a nostalgia string I didn’t know could exist for someone born in 98. My school didn’t upgrade their tech for a very long time.

Love how you use Canyon.mid for every sound test.

Next up Windows 3.11 (windows for workgroups). That shaped my life in IT (that and Windows NT)

"Ah! It's so pink!" - That is, indeed, what she said.

8:06 Yep he smelled the thing..... now the video can truly begin! LOL

Oooooooh, the nostalgia! In... I think 1993(?) my dad somehow got hold of a 386 with Win3.1 and let me tell you, coming from a Spectrum+3 to THAT was a revelation. I had thought before that the game little Speccy with its eight colours and 48k of RAM was an *amazing* thing that did wondrous stuff as if by some kind of witchcraft. I had no idea what was in store for me, technology-wise! Not long after the old man also acquired DooM, and I was once again completely floored by what a "modern" computer could do.

This was my first computer OS on a machine my dad made ( I was too young to know what brand all the things were). I haven't seen this is FOREVER! ^^ So nice to see it again! Thank you!

The coffee mug totally yells "Flippin'egg!"

4:00 "Aliens Studied My Copy of Windows for 47 Straight Hours!" Alright, cool.

The Techmoan mug is awesome.

I actually remember installing this on my very first PC in 1993. I was 8. I didn't get out much.

My first computer was a Gateway (cow print boxes) 486 with a 100 MB hard disc drive that was running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. My dad bought it and didn't realize it was more suited as an office computer unfortunately. It had a dual speed CD rom, but no sound card. So I couldn't play games on it until I bought some RAM and a Sound Blaster 16 a year or so after getting it. I learned so much about computers and coding just from playing around with DOS. I added a 28.8 BPS modem and was able to call into bulletin board services (precursor to the internet chat). I accidently racked up a bunch of long distance phone charges, my folks were so upset lol. Still, I have so many fond memories of playing around in Windows. Microsoft Paint, solitaire and all the basic programs it came with.

Ah, classic Windows 3.1, good to see a new video from you to help me get through the day Clint!

Yay New LGR 486 Video! **Updates WoodGrain 486 playlist**

The way you said balls.. sounds like Duke Nukem lol

Good memories here...even had a Packard Bell 486 DX2/66 and Trumpet Winsock for the internet dialup. Good stuff. Until WFW 3.11 and the build in TCP/IP stack. Thanks for the vid!

Man, this brings back so many memories! To this day, those voices still to crack me up!

Yay techmoan mug! Not often anymore is your monitor so dwarfed by your keyboard...lol

This is where I started with PC and gaming. I had NEC 33Mhz, 8MB RAM, 100MB HDD, no sound. Lol

Finally a LGR / Techmoan collaboration that got physical !

That camera against the monitor is CLEAN!!! It's like the FPS of the camera and the monitor have to be identical!

Windows 3.1 was the first version of Windows I have ever used so this video makes me feel quite nostalgic!

Legit version of Windows 3.1? Now there is something I never owned :D