[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Posting With Windows 95! (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 8/7/2013 3:45:04 PM EDT
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So, I was digging around in my closet and stumbled across my old Packard Bell PB2950. On a whim, I took it out an hooked it up. After being in that closet for around 15 years, the dang booted right up. And even connects (sorta) to the World Wide Webb!
Specs: Blazing Fast 120mhz Pentium cpu! Gigantic 1 gb HDD! Lightening quick 44x CD-rom! 80 goddamn megabites of ram!!!! Beat that, beotches! 
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I like your old school nature OP.... as an IT guy by profession, ya just gotta love an old box bootin up and doin its thing.  Yeah, for real. I've got an old laptop in my desk drawer that still sorta works. The display doesn't work anymore (backlight burned out) but it still boots up and functions alright with an external display connected. Boots Windows 95. Got any screenshots?
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So, I was digging around in my closet and stumbled across my old Packard Bell PB2950. On a whim, I took it out an hooked it up. After being in that closet for around 15 years, the dang booted right up. And even connects (sorta) to the World Wide Webb! Specs: Blazing Fast 120mhz Pentium cpu! Gigantic 1 gb HDD! Lightening quick 44x CD-rom! 80 goddamn megabites of ram!!!! Beat that, beotches! I think I have a 486DX4 downstairs running OS/2 |
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I coasted on the 'net a few years back with my old law school laptop:
A Compaq Aero 4/33 subnotebook. 486SX running 33 megahertz 250meg hard drive 12 megs of ram And on the net with an Etherlink combo modem/nic card in the PCMCIA slot... Damned amazing it still runs. I think I'll go dig it up. |
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He'll, that was Microsoft's best operating system. All downhill from there. Not kidding. Quoted:
He'll, that was Microsoft's best operating system. All downhill from there. Not kidding. I'd have to say 98 was better. It had USB and Plug and Play out of the box in addition to performance improvements. Quoted:
I even got to play a few minutes of "Red Alert" earlier. Damn the graphics are awesome!!! Best game ever. Kane FTW! |
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Quoted: I'd have to say 98 was better. It had USB and Plug and Play out of the box in addition to performance improvements. Best game ever. Kane FTW! Quoted: Quoted: He'll, that was Microsoft's best operating system. All downhill from there. Not kidding. I'd have to say 98 was better. It had USB and Plug and Play out of the box in addition to performance improvements. Quoted: I even got to play a few minutes of "Red Alert" earlier. Damn the graphics are awesome!!! Best game ever. Kane FTW! |
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Yeah, for real. I've got an old laptop in my desk drawer that still sorta works. The display doesn't work anymore (backlight burned out) but it still boots up and functions alright with an external display connected. Boots Windows 95. Got any screenshots? Quoted:
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I like your old school nature OP.... as an IT guy by profession, ya just gotta love an old box bootin up and doin its thing. Yeah, for real. I've got an old laptop in my desk drawer that still sorta works. The display doesn't work anymore (backlight burned out) but it still boots up and functions alright with an external display connected. Boots Windows 95. Got any screenshots? Crappy cellphone pics:  " />
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Quoted: I think the later OEM SR2.5 version of W95 had USB support. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: He'll, that was Microsoft's best operating system. All downhill from there. Not kidding. I'd have to say 98 was better. It had USB and Plug and Play out of the box in addition to performance improvements. Quoted: I even got to play a few minutes of "Red Alert" earlier. Damn the graphics are awesome!!! Best game ever. Kane FTW! Your avatar is perfect for this thread.  |
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I had a Packard Bell (166Mhz) and an IBM Aptiva PC networked on a cross over cable for gaming, set up on dial-up. I remember that Aptiva had win 95, a blazing 200mhz processor, 32 megs of ram and a 2 gig HD. Cost me $1700 including the printer at radio shack  . This was in 1997. Back then people thought you were genius if you knew "how to operate" a computer. |
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Quoted: I had a Packard Bell (166Mhz) and an IBM Aptiva PC networked on a cross over cable for gaming, set up on dial-up. I remember that Aptiva had win 95, a blazing 200mhz processor, 32 megs of ram and a 2 gig HD. Cost me $1700 including the printer at radio shack . This was in 1997. Back then people thought you were genius if you knew "how to operate" a computer. |
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old school stuff like this makes me pine for the days of DOS. Anyone remember having to manually edit the autoexec.bat & config.sys for hardware/software to work? Oh yeah I remember those days...don't miss them as much as you seem to though. I've still got a 386 16 Mhz machine with a 40 MB hard drive around here somewhere. That drive is not even big enough to hold a decent sized titty picture.
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not that surprised now that I think about it.
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Run speedtest.net :) Won't work. "Browser incompatibility". 
not that surprised now that I think about it.
LOL I tried to install Flash and got an "installer expects newer version of Windows. Install newer version." error.
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Oh yeah I remember those days...don't miss them as much as you seem to though. I've still got a 386 16 Mhz machine with a 40 MB hard drive around here somewhere. That drive is not even big enough to hold a decent sized titty picture. Quoted:
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old school stuff like this makes me pine for the days of DOS. Anyone remember having to manually edit the autoexec.bat & config.sys for hardware/software to work? Oh yeah I remember those days...don't miss them as much as you seem to though. I've still got a 386 16 Mhz machine with a 40 MB hard drive around here somewhere. That drive is not even big enough to hold a decent sized titty picture. Watching pron was challenging, too: Buffering.... Buffering....... Buffering........... Hard to keep a good fap going.
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Quoted: old school stuff like this makes me pine for the days of DOS. Anyone remember having to manually edit the autoexec.bat & config.sys for hardware/software to work? |
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How about before USB and having to set jumpers and switches to redirect IRQs, DMA channels, or I/O port addresses in order to get devices to work? You could spend hours trying to connect a joystick or a camera, even with the drivers and still not have it recognised. |