Teens react to Windows 95
 

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I so remember being excited to upgrade to Win 95.

At home I still have my Windows 386 software box and the floppies. I still have my Microsoft mouse that has two huge green buttons and it says Patent Pending on the bottom.

It still astonishes me that my cell phone has 129 Gig of memory.

I remember using DOS, Win 3.0 and 3.1 and ordered my first Gateway with Win 95 the week it came out (not by choice and learned a valuable lesson that first release is final beta...). To really go way back, my first machine was a Commodore 64 and used a B&W 13" TV for a monitor.

I still use a monitor just like the one pictured. Didn't buy a new one when I got Vista. IMO the clarity is better than most flat screens.

Glen, did you keep a floppy drive as well?

I still have my original copy of DOS 1.1 on low density 5.25 inch floppy.

170k, why would you need more than a few of those for storage?

I was in a college computer class in the mid 80's and the instructor was going on that he had 40mb hard drive, showing the math and telling us it was more storage than anyone will ever need. :)

Owned a IBM PC-Junior 5" floppy's I upgraded it to 31/2 NO Hard drive. I go back to punch cards and 8" floppy disks! Dam I'm OLD!!

I have a 8" floppy at my desk (for display purpose only)... until recently we still had exhibits on the floor running 95, heck we are just now switching out the old Pioneer laser disk players with solid state video players!

Actually I have a fancy dual drive unit that is the same thickness as a single floppy. It reads 3.5 & 5.25 inch floppies. New motherboards don't even have a connection on the motherboard for floppy drives.

I still have my original floppies and the manual for my Compaq 2.1 DOS that came with my Compaq "portable" or luggable computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable

Twin floppies, no hard drive and 256K memory originally. I upgraded it to 640k of memory and a 10 MB hard drive and a 1200 Baud modem.

Hmmm...

I'm 25 and used to play around with dos when I was a kid. Loading up nhl 94 and 95. Tweaking settings and messing around.

I'm trying to think at what age complete ignorance of older operating systems became the norm?

My first computer was a broken 286 that I had upgraded to a 386DX40. Ran Win 3.0 with only 2mb's of RAM. I remember paying $200 for a 40mb hard drive, and it was a bargain at the time.
Sheesh, I just bought a 1TB drive over the weekend for $54. My how times change.

Got my degree in Computer Science some 35 years ago....what the heck are you you youngins talking about with this PC nonsense...and 64K of memory was a LOT back then...and a decent dial up was 4800 baud. Got into networking when 56K connections were absolutely state-of-the-art and only mega-corporations had THAT kind of money :D

We were so poor that a floppy drive was a luxury. We were lucky to score a cassette tape drive for mass storage.

My physical chem lecture prof uses windows 95.....

My first computer ran Windows 95. Went from that to 2000 Pro. Still have a box that runs 2K Pro.

We couldn't afford binary....all of our coding was either all 0s or all 1s ...you had to pick one or the other but we couldn't afford to use both :D

god 95 was junk.

2GB hard drive partition limits .... rediculous

i still have an old IBM PS/2 in my closet, it had windows 3.1 but frankly it was easier to use DOS to navigate.

4800?!?! Damn, son...I still have my 300 baud acoustic coupler around here somewhere...