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		cesarb on Jan 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015) When I bought my first computer (which came with Windows 3.1), it didn't come with a mouse. User interfaces back then were designed to be usable without a mouse, because many people didn't have a mouse - it was optional, and used up one of the serial ports.

londons_explore on Jan 21, 2019 | [–]

I gave up trying the get my first mouse working after hours of tweaking win.ini...

collinmanderson on Jan 21, 2019 | [–]

Yup, I started out with win 3.1 without a mouse. You could do pretty much anything except use paint.

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