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!

08-24-15, 10:34 AM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,383 Downloads: 541 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: 7,711 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.

08-24-15, 02:22 PM	#3
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 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: 21,383 Downloads: 541 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!'' __________________

08-25-15, 06:19 AM	#6
Rhodes Silent Hunter Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Figueira da Foz, Portugal Posts: 4,515 Downloads: 110 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/