Visual C++ 1.0
I have a fairly large collection of different versions of Visual C++ that I started a long time ago (before I joined Microsoft). I also wanted to start playing with Flickr. So I dedided to start posting photos of the various versions of VC++. Here's the first one - Visual C++ 1.0.
My recollection of VC++ 1.0 is that I initially bought the version on floppies - I think it was something like 22 floppies were needed to install the product. This got so tedious whenever I repaved my machine that I just broke down and bought the CD version.
Was VC++ 1.0 the first Microsoft C compiler that came on CD? I don't think so. I think I remember my former boss when I was in developer support having a CD version of Microsoft C 7 (not Visual C++). This was the first compiler from Microsoft that supported the (then) new C++ langugage and came with the very first version of MFC. Another thing I remember about C 7 was that it came with a huge document set. I remember the box as being about a yard long.
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