This will make sense to almost nobody, but I was sent this for being a beta tester back in the day. I was in my 20's an dead broke barely scraping by, and it meant a lot to me. Was a prized possession.
Thought it was lost for 10 years now, and out of the blue my dad brought it to me, and said they had kept it in some of my stuff. 😢 Strange things choke me up sometimes.
beautiful piece of history there
The discs are gorgeous too. I'll have to see if I can capture it. I miss the old packaging.
SuSE Linux had awesome packaging too.
windows 7 was the first OS I ever touched in my youth.
they don't make em like they used to
You're younger than I thought 🤣
Indeed. But old souled. My first PC was a Commodore 64. My dad made sure I lived tech chronologically. lol
Mine was an Osbourn 8086 with twin 5.25" floppies and 16 colours (CGA).
My folks sold their Datsun 180B for it.
I was the first in my class to have a IBM compatible. I used to long for a C64 or an Atari 🤣
They actually gave you a boxed set of Windows 7 Ultimate, *and* signed by Steve Ballmer himself just for being a beta tester? Must have been some serious, potentially mission critical beta testing to score that.
The beta program used to be a bigger deal. I was wait listed for a long time, and not contributing feedback could get you removed.
And, as I've pointed out a few times this week, I'm pretty good at breaking things. I submitted a pretty good number of bug reports, and as a dev, was prolly better than many at including all the relevant info.
That was back when I still understood technology. Of course, once you get down to the OS level, not much has changed on Desktop. Just layers of API's that keep getting added on top of code nobody knows how to service.
