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Unopened Windows 95...worth anything?

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Was going through A BUNCH of junk to throw away and came across a unopened "For distribution with a new Dell PC only" Windows 95 OS with installation CD and boot floppy...anyone here know if its worth anything? Plastic shrink wrap is near open at the top but its all still sealed, unused, and in rather nice condition I must say.

Anyways, anyone know what it could be worth? Also have an opened version of Windows 95 on all floppies too...

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So honestly, I think that "for distribution with a new Dell PC only" prohibits you from selling it to someone else? (Or limits you to selling it with the original dell system maybe?)

Anyway, you can look on ebay for completed auctions and see what the trend is. I just picked a low one I found.

It looks like the floppy disc version might actually be worth listing.

Oh, and no price checks 😛
 
YOyoYOhowsDAjello said:
So honestly, I think that "for distribution with a new Dell PC only" prohibits you from selling it to someone else? (Or limits you to selling it with the original dell system maybe?)

Anyway, you can look on ebay for completed auctions and see what the trend is. I just picked a low one I found.

It looks like the floppy disc version might actually be worth listing.

Oh, and no price checks 😛
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I can sell it with an old Dell laptop :-D

Yeah, Ive heard the floppy versions are worth some $ but hell, I think Id rather keep it just for nostalgic purposes...
 
Bl0cks said:
I would put it in a time capsule or something.
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Well, for me having used Win95 very little (I can remember back in the day as a kid playing Doom and the like on it) it really doesnt hold memories and what not as far as keeping it for any "days of yesteryear" type experiences.

Might crack this version open and see what I can do with it...probably very little eh? Windows 7 drivers work on it? 😛
 
gaidensensei said:
I only have bad memories about 95, nothing great with it imo. 98 and 2000 were better. Even dos was better.
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Imassume you never used Windows 3.1. It was OK but windows was never taken too seriously at that point. With Win95 everything in the computing world changed. Its the reason Microsoft beat out Apple for market share, even though Apple had a GUI first.
 
wait another 100 years.
very early apple stuff had value cuz it was designer from the start...
win95 on the other hand..will just be some oddity in the future like a dos disc is now.
 
gaidensensei said:
Why it's not worth anything
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That was a Windows 98 beta, although it wasn't all that hard to get Windows 95 to bluescreen either.

Anyway... I'll bet that an unopened retail box of Windows 95 might be worth something to a collector. I know that I used to collect software boxes back in the 90's just because some the cover art was cool, but I gave that up when I ran out of shelf space.

The software itself is practically useless, though. Maybe you could use the CD as a drink coaster at a LAN party, it might be a good conservation piece 🙂
 
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