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Windows 95 Turns 20

Posted by timothy on from the everyone-yell-surprise dept.

Etherwalk writes: Windows 95 turns 20 tomorrow, August 24, 2015. Users looking to upgrade from Windows 3.1 should be warned that some reviewers on the Amazon purchase page have been receiving 3.5" high-density floppy disk versions instead of a modern 150 kbps CD-ROM disk. Do you remember first seeing or installing Windows 95? Do you have any systems still running it?

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  1. Yes by danomatika · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but I remember installing and using the first Command & Conquer quite a bit more!

  2. Getting closer... by SuricouRaven · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just 75 years to go until the copyright expires.

  3. Re:Installed in a VM by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I set up a Windows XP VM recently for tech support scammers. When they call I let them log in to the VM, which only has 32MB of RAM (it's possible to boot XP on 32MB, after installing on 64MB) and an internet connection throttled down to dial-up speeds. Sadly I can't find a way to underclock the CPU in VMware, but limiting it to 1% of the host is pretty effective.

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