I recall those earlier versions of Windows, including
Windows NT and Windows 2000. In fact, I am currently using Windows 2000 Professional on this computer.
I want my Microsoft Bob!
my first brand new computer I bought from radio shack in ‘95.
cost me a fortune back then. it had windows 3.1 with an upgrade guarantee for 95. got the upgrade and it wouldn’t support my bible program. was i hot. I deleted 95 and put 3.1 back on it.
yea, i eventually went back to windows 98, then xp, which i still have. but almost everything i do is on linux. been using it for 12 years or so. shucks, i am on linux now, and i don’t have to buy a bunch of ridiculous programs to keep me safe on the net.
it just works.
blessings, bobo
I remember that release of Windows 95 like it happened yesterday. I installed it on 65 computers in my group and it worked just fine. Then Windows 98 came out and it worked much better.
To me, the operating system is a small issue because the main task for us was using the software which actually did the work. In our case it was Autocad. How Autocad performed had 100 times more impact on our productivity than the OS. All we needed was for the OS to not crash often and Windows 98 was a satisfactory product for my company.
Tucked away in a cupboard in my home office is an old laptop can’t remember the brand not a Toshiba or dell that I did an upgrade from 3.1 to windows 95. It still works. 95 was such a change from 3.1.
Seems like just yesterday.
I bought my copy at CompUSA and remember my wife being upset because it wasn't cheap and we didn't have a lot of extra money at the time. "What was wrong with the old Windows" she would say.
New York State Police Information Network (NYSPIN) still runs on Windows ‘95.
I started on a Texas Instrument machine that did virtually nothing. I considered it a glorified calculator. My husband and I got our first computer in 1994. My husband, being a pilot, was gone a lot. One of the funniest incidents of our marriage was me being hysterical on the phone over BSOD. I thought I’d broken our $1500 computer. In the best form of an epic joke, he advised me to reboot it. I was afraid to touch it, but it worked. Now, I’m not sure I can count how many computers we’ve had or my level of geekieness. LOL.
Win95 was the first OS I ever bought separate from getting a new computer. It was pretty cool at the time, though not the most stable thing in the world — I seem to recall that Win98 was a much more stable OS that was mostly the same in terms of look and feel.
Followed soon after by hundreds and hundreds of AOL diskettes/CDs.