Win 95 turns 20 today

Onkel Neal · 08-24-15, 10:34 AM

And I would probably still be using it if XP had not come along

http://www.pcworld.com/article/29750...footsteps.html

vienna · 08-24-15, 12:53 PM

You waited until XP was released to upgrade?

Talk about a die hard...

On one project I worked on during most of the 90s, I used to keep one PC with Win95 installed and a copy of the earlier version of MS Office. A surprisingly significant percentage of the staff I assisted were prone to forgetting the passwords on their secured Office documents; if you open a password protected Office document in an early version of Office, the password is stripped off and the document is accessible. Of course, you lose any formatting and features not supported by earlier version, but at least you still had the text and most of the basic formatting. Keeping a PC with Win 95 and early Office was something I continued for a very long time...

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Catfish · 08-24-15, 02:22 PM

When Win 95 came out, i had just switched from Win 3.11 to OS/2, and let all future Windows until XP run in a OS/2 window

Even DOS-games ran better in OS/2, since you could pump up the usual 640 kb to much bigger Dos-boxes.

Not Fast Attack though. I had an extra boot manager, to run Fast Attack from a native DOS environment.
And i got the sim from .. Neal !

Onkel Neal · 08-24-15, 06:24 PM

Yay! Thanks for that, Fast Attack, nice.

Here's a real

HunterICX · 08-25-15, 04:00 AM

My Windows 95 experience summed up in a nutshell.

''Ow look there's a game on the Windows disc!''

Rhodes · 08-25-15, 06:19 AM

Win 95 was stored in 10 hd floppy disks!

I'm more of a Win 98 fan and extensive user!

Archibald · 08-25-15, 10:34 AM

Say nothing about the good ol' fashioned XP.

Skybird · 11-25-15, 03:12 PM

Windows 95, that brings back memories - bad ones. I was still at university, and working on my diploma paper, we needed to use SPSS, a statistic analysis software, and it was buggy like hell and not well-adapted to the new OS. So much time wasted when needing to manually re-enter complex data sets after some technical glitch, and so often erratic results fed back by the software. Mentioning Windows 95 and especially SPSS 6.0 still gives me the shivers.

Heck, during the last year an university I still took courses in MS-DOS.

It was also the time when I migrated my gaming from Amiga (!) and Playstation 1 to PC. Not before Windows 98 I fully arrived there.

Win 98, XP and especially Win 7 for me remain to be the best versions of Windows ever.

If game compatability would be given, Linux Mint would smoke Windows 7 in a pipe, however.

08-24-15, 10:34 AM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,284 Downloads: 534 Uploads: 224	Win 95 turns 20 today And I would probably still be using it if XP had not come along http://www.pcworld.com/article/29750...footsteps.html __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

08-24-15, 12:53 PM	#2
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,506 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	You waited until XP was released to upgrade? Talk about a die hard... On one project I worked on during most of the 90s, I used to keep one PC with Win95 installed and a copy of the earlier version of MS Office. A surprisingly significant percentage of the staff I assisted were prone to forgetting the passwords on their secured Office documents; if you open a password protected Office document in an early version of Office, the password is stripped off and the document is accessible. Of course, you lose any formatting and features not supported by earlier version, but at least you still had the text and most of the basic formatting. Keeping a PC with Win 95 and early Office was something I continued for a very long time... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __ Last edited by vienna; 08-24-15 at 03:03 PM.

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Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,897 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	When Win 95 came out, i had just switched from Win 3.11 to OS/2, and let all future Windows until XP run in a OS/2 window Even DOS-games ran better in OS/2, since you could pump up the usual 640 kb to much bigger Dos-boxes. Not Fast Attack though. I had an extra boot manager, to run Fast Attack from a native DOS environment. And i got the sim from .. Neal ! __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

08-24-15, 06:24 PM	#4
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,284 Downloads: 534 Uploads: 224	Yay! Thanks for that, Fast Attack, nice. Here's a real __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

08-25-15, 04:00 AM	#5
HunterICX Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malaga, España Posts: 10,750 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	My Windows 95 experience summed up in a nutshell. ''Ow look there's a game on the Windows disc!'' __________________

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Rhodes Silent Hunter Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Figueira da Foz, Portugal Posts: 4,486 Downloads: 109 Uploads: 0	Win 95 was stored in 10 hd floppy disks! I'm more of a Win 98 fan and extensive user! __________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16416646@N05/

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Archibald Watch Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Long Beach Posts: 30 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Say nothing about the good ol' fashioned XP.

11-25-15, 03:12 PM	#8
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,496 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Windows 95, that brings back memories - bad ones. I was still at university, and working on my diploma paper, we needed to use SPSS, a statistic analysis software, and it was buggy like hell and not well-adapted to the new OS. So much time wasted when needing to manually re-enter complex data sets after some technical glitch, and so often erratic results fed back by the software. Mentioning Windows 95 and especially SPSS 6.0 still gives me the shivers. Heck, during the last year an university I still took courses in MS-DOS. It was also the time when I migrated my gaming from Amiga (!) and Playstation 1 to PC. Not before Windows 98 I fully arrived there. Win 98, XP and especially Win 7 for me remain to be the best versions of Windows ever. If game compatability would be given, Linux Mint would smoke Windows 7 in a pipe, however. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.