My first experience running Windows applications was in 1990 when I was running them under OS/2 using IBM's Screen Reader/2. I don't think I started running Windows natively until the late 90's with JAWS and Windows 95.
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> I started my Windows experience with Windows 3.1 using Screen Power as my
> first screen reader and moved over to JAWS in 1996 after attending the NFB
> convention and purchasing a copy of their demo disk. I haven't looked back
> since, although I do play with NVDA and Narrator from time to time.
>
> Thx, Albert
>
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> Albert A. Ruel, Parksville BC, Canada
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> I would also be interested. For a few years I had Windows 3.0 with Window
> Eyes. For a synthesizer I had an old Keynote Companion, and very seldom used
> Windows.This was in college in Michigan.I was one of those people who vowed
> to never use Windows consistently, but that changed when I took a class on
> Windows 95.
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> > On Nov 20, 2020, at 2:05 PM, Christopher Chaltain <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > My understanding was that Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were pretty much
> > failures. It wasn't until Windows 3.1 that Windows really took off.
> > When most people think of their first version of Windows in the late
> > 80's, they're thinking of Windows 3.1.
> >
> > --
> > Christopher (AKA CJ)
> > Chaltain at Gmail
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> >> [log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Colin Howard
> >> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 9:47 AM
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> >> Subject: [VICUG-L] 20 November, 1985.
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> On BBC Radio 4's News Briefing for today, I learnt, it was on this
> >> day in
> > 1985,
> >> MicroSoft released it's very first version of the Windows operating
> > system,
> >> entitled Windows Version 1.0.
> >>
> >> I would be very interested to learn if, possibly, even after all this
> > time, anybody
> >> has a machine with Windows V1.0 running? I would be interested to
> >> lern of experiences of W V1.0, even as a sighted person.
> >>
> >>
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