#windows2 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #windows2, aggregated by home.social.
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🎩🚀 Oh joy, someone ported Windows 2 to the Apricot PC/Xi, because apparently, the 1980s called and they want their obsolete tech back. Meanwhile, the rest of us are busy worrying if our computers can even handle the latest Chrome update without bursting into flames. 🔥💾
https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/ #Windows2 #ApricotPC #technostalgia #retrocomputing #Chromeupdate #HackerNews #ngated -
🎩🚀 Oh joy, someone ported Windows 2 to the Apricot PC/Xi, because apparently, the 1980s called and they want their obsolete tech back. Meanwhile, the rest of us are busy worrying if our computers can even handle the latest Chrome update without bursting into flames. 🔥💾
https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/ #Windows2 #ApricotPC #technostalgia #retrocomputing #Chromeupdate #HackerNews #ngated -
🎩🚀 Oh joy, someone ported Windows 2 to the Apricot PC/Xi, because apparently, the 1980s called and they want their obsolete tech back. Meanwhile, the rest of us are busy worrying if our computers can even handle the latest Chrome update without bursting into flames. 🔥💾
https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/ #Windows2 #ApricotPC #technostalgia #retrocomputing #Chromeupdate #HackerNews #ngated -
🎩🚀 Oh joy, someone ported Windows 2 to the Apricot PC/Xi, because apparently, the 1980s called and they want their obsolete tech back. Meanwhile, the rest of us are busy worrying if our computers can even handle the latest Chrome update without bursting into flames. 🔥💾
https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/ #Windows2 #ApricotPC #technostalgia #retrocomputing #Chromeupdate #HackerNews #ngated -
Windows 2.x still thought it "knew better" than Mac when it came to keyboard shortcuts …
Undo: Alt+Backspace
Cut: Shift+Delete
Copy: Ctrl+Insert
Paste: Shift+Insert1990 would change that. Of course, the option-key shortcuts that Mac started in 1984 … ? Still waiting.
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@nina_kali_nina by the way ...
the work that went into joining lowercase characters in Script font was INSANE
The curriculum had this until nearly 1990 at which point "cursive joining" was less of a mandatory thing … actually on second thoughts there's a few differences, because we had a "p" that looked like an "h" so to allow the carryon line to join. And their "h" and "l" have loops in it.
But the 'w' and 'u' and 'v' — the real head-busters when you saw them all joined together — those look EXACTLY the same as what we did. If you know what to look for, there's a minimal viable difference: I typed fffsmnwuvvv
#typology #cursive #fonts #script #1980s #handwriting #vector #windows2
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@nina_kali_nina Do you see the fonts named 'Roman', 'Modern', or 'Script'?
You wouldn't believe (actually, you would) how hard these are to google.
Anyway they're a dumpster fire but they totally work … if you are into non-intersecting polygons. This is when Adobe Type Manager was hella expensive, and TrueType was a liberating dream coming soon, from two enemies joining forces f.f.s.finally.
BTW, yes this screenshot is from Windows 3.0 Runtime (or something like that … CONTROL.EXE not found haha) but they are the fonts that Windows 3 inherited, I swear
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@nina_kali_nina That @ sign is not so much a circle, as a hexadecagon
I even found curly quotes! Singular quotes, though. Very hard, you needed to remember 0145 and 0146, which of course I do
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Windows 2.x: How to Close a Window
There will be a test.
Mac users should be able to figure this one out.
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Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 2.0 - #tech #nostalgia #retro #windows2
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In 1988, Microsoft General Manager of Western US Sales, Dave Jaworski, explained the company’s stance on Windows: “[Windows] is a short-term product. [...] OS/2 is built for the 286 [processor] platform & beyond, & it really is the operating system & a platform for the future.” #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows2 #OS2 #IBM
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@nina_kali_nina Do you see the fonts named 'Roman', 'Modern', or 'Script'?
You wouldn't believe (actually, you would) how hard these are to google.
Anyway they're a dumpster fire but they totally work … if you are into non-intersecting polygons. This is when Adobe Type Manager was hella expensive, and TrueType was a liberating dream coming soon, from two enemies joining forces f.f.s.finally.
BTW, yes this screenshot is from Windows 3.0 Runtime (or something like that … CONTROL.EXE not found haha) but they are the fonts that Windows 3 inherited, I swear
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@nina_kali_nina Do you see the fonts named 'Roman', 'Modern', or 'Script'?
You wouldn't believe (actually, you would) how hard these are to google.
Anyway they're a dumpster fire but they totally work … if you are into non-intersecting polygons. This is when Adobe Type Manager was hella expensive, and TrueType was a liberating dream coming soon, from two enemies joining forces f.f.s.finally.
BTW, yes this screenshot is from Windows 3.0 Runtime (or something like that … CONTROL.EXE not found haha) but they are the fonts that Windows 3 inherited, I swear
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@nina_kali_nina Do you see the fonts named 'Roman', 'Modern', or 'Script'?
You wouldn't believe (actually, you would) how hard these are to google.
Anyway they're a dumpster fire but they totally work … if you are into non-intersecting polygons. This is when Adobe Type Manager was hella expensive, and TrueType was a liberating dream coming soon, from two enemies joining forces f.f.s.finally.
BTW, yes this screenshot is from Windows 3.0 Runtime (or something like that … CONTROL.EXE not found haha) but they are the fonts that Windows 3 inherited, I swear
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@nina_kali_nina Do you see the fonts named 'Roman', 'Modern', or 'Script'?
You wouldn't believe (actually, you would) how hard these are to google.
Anyway they're a dumpster fire but they totally work … if you are into non-intersecting polygons. This is when Adobe Type Manager was hella expensive, and TrueType was a liberating dream coming soon, from two enemies joining forces f.f.s.finally.
BTW, yes this screenshot is from Windows 3.0 Runtime (or something like that … CONTROL.EXE not found haha) but they are the fonts that Windows 3 inherited, I swear
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@nina_kali_nina by the way ...
the work that went into joining lowercase characters in Script font was INSANE
The curriculum had this until nearly 1990 at which point "cursive joining" was less of a mandatory thing … actually on second thoughts there's a few differences, because we had a "p" that looked like an "h" so to allow the carryon line to join. And their "h" and "l" have loops in it.
But the 'w' and 'u' and 'v' — the real head-busters when you saw them all joined together — those look EXACTLY the same as what we did. If you know what to look for, there's a minimal viable difference: I typed fffsmnwuvvv
#typology #cursive #fonts #script #1980s #handwriting #vector #windows2
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@nina_kali_nina by the way ...
the work that went into joining lowercase characters in Script font was INSANE
The curriculum had this until nearly 1990 at which point "cursive joining" was less of a mandatory thing … actually on second thoughts there's a few differences, because we had a "p" that looked like an "h" so to allow the carryon line to join. And their "h" and "l" have loops in it.
But the 'w' and 'u' and 'v' — the real head-busters when you saw them all joined together — those look EXACTLY the same as what we did. If you know what to look for, there's a minimal viable difference: I typed fffsmnwuvvv
#typology #cursive #fonts #script #1980s #handwriting #vector #windows2
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@nina_kali_nina by the way ...
the work that went into joining lowercase characters in Script font was INSANE
The curriculum had this until nearly 1990 at which point "cursive joining" was less of a mandatory thing … actually on second thoughts there's a few differences, because we had a "p" that looked like an "h" so to allow the carryon line to join. And their "h" and "l" have loops in it.
But the 'w' and 'u' and 'v' — the real head-busters when you saw them all joined together — those look EXACTLY the same as what we did. If you know what to look for, there's a minimal viable difference: I typed fffsmnwuvvv
#typology #cursive #fonts #script #1980s #handwriting #vector #windows2
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@nina_kali_nina by the way ...
the work that went into joining lowercase characters in Script font was INSANE
The curriculum had this until nearly 1990 at which point "cursive joining" was less of a mandatory thing … actually on second thoughts there's a few differences, because we had a "p" that looked like an "h" so to allow the carryon line to join. And their "h" and "l" have loops in it.
But the 'w' and 'u' and 'v' — the real head-busters when you saw them all joined together — those look EXACTLY the same as what we did. If you know what to look for, there's a minimal viable difference: I typed fffsmnwuvvv
#typology #cursive #fonts #script #1980s #handwriting #vector #windows2
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@nina_kali_nina That @ sign is not so much a circle, as a hexadecagon
I even found curly quotes! Singular quotes, though. Very hard, you needed to remember 0145 and 0146, which of course I do
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@nina_kali_nina That @ sign is not so much a circle, as a hexadecagon
I even found curly quotes! Singular quotes, though. Very hard, you needed to remember 0145 and 0146, which of course I do
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@nina_kali_nina That @ sign is not so much a circle, as a hexadecagon
I even found curly quotes! Singular quotes, though. Very hard, you needed to remember 0145 and 0146, which of course I do
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@nina_kali_nina That @ sign is not so much a circle, as a hexadecagon
I even found curly quotes! Singular quotes, though. Very hard, you needed to remember 0145 and 0146, which of course I do
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Your assumed knowledge — if you got left behind in the 1990s, here's what you missed.
I did like that question mark icon — it was kind of friendly and confident. Windows arrow, you're drunk.
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Your assumed knowledge — if you got left behind in the 1990s, here's what you missed.
I did like that question mark icon — it was kind of friendly and confident. Windows arrow, you're drunk.
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Your assumed knowledge — if you got left behind in the 1990s, here's what you missed.
I did like that question mark icon — it was kind of friendly and confident. Windows arrow, you're drunk.
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Alt+Escape continues to be weird one — not Ctrl+Escape — that basically switches apps immediately to this day; but before the Start Bar and Dock, this was just a way to rearrange the egg-form of your running applications.
Today's Alt+Escape is a little bit like Cmd-` (backtick) on Mac, except that's for rotating within apps
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Alt+Escape continues to be weird one — not Ctrl+Escape — that basically switches apps immediately to this day; but before the Start Bar and Dock, this was just a way to rearrange the egg-form of your running applications.
Today's Alt+Escape is a little bit like Cmd-` (backtick) on Mac, except that's for rotating within apps
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Alt+Escape continues to be weird one — not Ctrl+Escape — that basically switches apps immediately to this day; but before the Start Bar and Dock, this was just a way to rearrange the egg-form of your running applications.
Today's Alt+Escape is a little bit like Cmd-` (backtick) on Mac, except that's for rotating within apps
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