On this day in 1995....

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Al Neri

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/bu...microsoft/stories/1995/debut082495.htm

Microsoft Unveils its new Windows 95....

While Microsoft expects the campaign to pay off handsomely, past high-profile product launches prove there are risks. Indeed, pricey advertising campaigns have heralded some grand and very embarrassing failures. Recall Ford Motor Co.'s Edsel, a car model that bombed so thoroughly that its very name has become a synonym for catastrophic product ideas ? and cost the company about $250 million.
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I wonder if they did well?:)

I can remember being 13 coming home from school and seeing my dad trying to install it on our 486 DX2 50MhZ. It installed and ran but was quite slow. That december 24th came the new Pentium which came preloaded with win95. Win95 was badass!:-D
 
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MiniDoom

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Damn I was a senior in HS. I remember going to library and using the old 486's w/w95. Thank god things are better now.
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

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I remember the day well. It's the only reason I remember my mother's birthday :eek:
I made at least $100 getting dial-up working on people's Win95 boxes in the months that followed.
 
JulesMaximus

JulesMaximus

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Win95 sucked. I waited probably a year or so after it was released before I changed over to Win95 and I only did it then because I got a copy of it for free. When Win98 came out I bought a full version the second or third day it was on store shelves. I used 98 until XP came out. I avoided WinME like the plague because it was...well, the plague of computer operating systems. Win2k is good, in fact I still use it on my laptop.
 
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aircooled

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Originally posted by: tm37
And the right mouse button became relivant.
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hell yeah! right click was god-like back then!

edit (showing my age): I was 25 then and already had my C-64 for over 10 years.
 
radioouman

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I had a beta of 95 that I installed on my 386DX40 with 8 meg of RAM and 85 meg and 170 meg hard drives.
Those were the days......
 
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I remember hearing it in radio contests. I was like 7 and their was all this hoop-la about it. Then I went over to a friends house and they had it. I was like "this is it?". Little did I know what 95 had started.
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: radioouman
I had a beta of 95 that I installed on my 386DX40 with 8 meg of RAM and 85 meg and 170 meg hard drives.
Those were the days......
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Ouch. I can't even imagine how painful it would have been on a 386.
 
Mrvile

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Originally posted by: BroeBo
Originally posted by: Xionide
Originally posted by: Mrvile
I thought Win 98 was the best of all the windows so far.
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Youve got to be kidding me. xp/2k>all other ms os's
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This man speaks the truth.
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Nah I thought 98 was easiest to work with. XP has all the new crap that I don't need.
 
CrackRabbit

CrackRabbit

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Ahh Windows 95....
It ran great on my 486-DX4-100 and then even better on the K6-166 I replaced it with.
Those were the days.
 
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