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Windows '95 - 20 years old today!

  • 24-08-2015 5:32pm
    #1
    unkel
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    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    I remember the launch date very well :)

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  • #2
    Riesen_Meal
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    Loved Win 95, great OS for its time....

    All I remember about it though really was Encarta and Command And Conquer.... :)

    God I'm old! :)


  • #3
    PropJoe10
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    I remember our first Windows 95 PC, was an AST computer with 8MB RAM and a 486 processor. Also remember getting Encarta and Cinemania and thinking they were the best things ever! How times change :)


  • #4
    MarkAnthony
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    Very good examples there of my you don't let senior managers/execs dance at lanches.


  • #5
    L.Jenkins
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    Listening to music on my Windows 95 machine involved grabbing a CD, shoving it in and changing it for something else when I got bored :P Had a whooping 1.5gb hard drive and I'd say about 128mb of Ram.

    And the good old shut down splash screen...

    217917__it-s-now-safe-to-turn-off-your-computer_p.jpg


  • #6
    PropJoe10
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    Itzy wrote: »
    Listening to music on my Windows 95 machine involved grabbing a CD, shoving it in and changing it for something else when I got bored :P Had a whooping 1.5gb hard drive and I'd say about 128mb of Ram.

    And the good old shut down splash screen...

    217917__it-s-now-safe-to-turn-off-your-computer_p.jpg

    128MB RAM? You were privileged, my friend. Our Win95 machine had a whopping 8MB RAM. It was a dream machine!


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  • #7
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,826 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Itzy wrote: »
    I'd say about 128mb of Ram.

    I'd say it was a lot less.

    I had started working in a high tech multinational earlier that year and I had two very high end PCs, costing £10k each. Ten grand in old money, each, that's right!!! :eek:

    (the average starting salary for a university graduate at the time was £11k)

    Both had the maximum amount of 64MB of RAM (which made them so expensive).

    I bought my home PC around the same time, which came with 4MB of RAM as as standard but I paid a lot extra to upgrade it to 8MB (which was recommended for W95)

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  • #8
    unkel
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    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Interesting read here

    Linky

    $400 per 4MB in late '95, so €6,400 for the memory alone in each of my work PCs (would have been a good bit more expensive in early '95)

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  • #9
    65535
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    It was better when they released the updates for USB.

    'Hidden' video from Windows 95



  • #10
    Firefox11
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    MarkAnthony wrote: »
    Very good examples there of my you don't let senior managers/execs dance at lanches.

    I was always amazed that Steve Ballmer never had a heart attack on stage at microsoft launches!


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