Anyone else remember the days of Windows 95/98?

I had the first edition of Windows 98, and that was horrible. With our 192MB of RAM :O

So many crashes daily, so many slowdowns.

It was a great day when we finally got a PC with XP

 

i vaguely remember. i was too young. ;p

 

I was too young but too eager..


i liked 98... the Tiger Wallpaper was my favourite.

and the Dancing Baby screensaver was my idea of Fun



ME used to give me lot of problems though

 

i was using 98se until 2003 i loved it. it ran superbly with 384mb of ram on my p3 733 mhz i was the envoy of the guys at school. massive 20GB HDD and a 32mb voodoo GPU


ahhhh, the memories.

i could go back further. bring out the old commodore 64 again. i have it set up in my room at the moment (i couldn't help my self when the game North and South was brought up in OT, i just had to play it again)

 

My first computer was Windows 95. I was only 6 years old back then. Games that i was playing were Putt-Putt and Freddy fish form humugous entertainment.
Also Hocus Pocus and One msut fall and jazz jack rabbit.

We had this computer for 10 yeas(2005 it was sold) That was our family's computer for 10 years can you believe that!!!!.

It was a Pentium 1. Several Mhz and 64-128RAm(forgot but i think it was 64) 1Gb Hard Drive(I know that is a large Hard drive)

 

I still remember the day of DOS 3.3, WordStar for DOS, Lotus for DOS with Epson Dot Matrix, some silly DOS games and monochrome monitor. I think they run on my 286 with floppy and no hard drive.

 

My bro's computer is still running 95! He's waiting for Starcraft 2 to come out before upgrading.

 

Hi.

yea, it was fun installing 95, from 40 floppy disk`s

It was a leap up from win 3.11 and workgroup.

regards

John.

 

i remember my C64, and typing in progs then saving to that infernal cassette tape. Remembering when floppy drives cost $399... man i'm like OLD!!!

back to the thread, i still have a 98 machine sitting in the living-room floor...
and will keep it around and running just for the memories... h@ll i still have the 386/486 upgrade cpu from back in like 90 or 91...

later,
bigozone

 

Oh man I remember those damn win95 floppies. I pretty much had no knowledge about PCs and I tried to upgrade my first computer from 3.11 to 95. I dunno why, but the installation never turned out right and a couple of the floppies got damaged. A couple years after that I got a new Aptiva with a Pentium II and win98, and it still works! Man... only thing I really ever hated about XP was that I couldn't play MechWarrior 2 Titanium Trilogy and my Aptiva couldn't handle the game...

 

I wore Visions Street Wear shoes and rocked a wedge haircut, so I prefer to not remember those days.

 

I remember quite well, as I was running a batch program just this morning on a Windows 98 computer at work.

 

I remember one of the first PC's that I built and was running 98. I forget the spec's on the machine itself, but I remember I had purchased a 6GB HDD for it. I forget the dollar amount, but that HDD was quite expensive

 

My first O/S was Windows 3.1. Then MYST and DOOM came out so I ended up splurging to buy a CDROM drive and dual-booting Windows 95. Highly technical back then.

 

i had windows 95 "plus" haha. as my 1st pc.

im 18 now, but i remember when i did have that machine i was also playing putt-putt and freddy fish, hahaha. i cant remember how old i was then. i remember playing hockey with a polar bear or something in the putt putt game. man that was a long time ago.

 

Hey I'm also 18 too.

I like to play them again. DO you know if they are still selling them???

 

I remember 95/98... my first was win 3.1...

Win 95/98 were alright. I used to have major problems since I was starting to build my business... hard work on 95/98 machine was simply terrible when moving large amounts of data and opening multiple programs. I've seen my fair share of BSOD. That is why I was so relieved and shocked when win 2000 came out... what a program... one of the top five products MS ever launched. (I know NT 4, but many of my programs would not run on NT 4 at the time).

In normal "consumer" activities, win 95/98 was very stable... I remember burning CDs at 2x.... *laughs to self... wtf... laughs more....*

 

Gee, you guys are all a bunch of young pups. I remember DOS 1.1 and Windows 1.0 (on five inch floppies)!!! Now don't get me started on all the micro stuff dating back to 1976 or the mini and mainframe computers before that!

I graduated from a two year tech school in 1971 and was in the last class to get a chance to work on an old "computer" that actually had tubes, that's right TUBES, in it. We used to go in there at night and run that beast with the room lights all turned off, the purple glow from that beast was just too cool for words.

Gary

 

My generation there lol

 

our first computer was a pc with windows 95, 32 mb of ram, add a 15 inch CRT monitor and an ultra slow hp inkjet printer...about $4,000 total.

boy...those were the days...

 

Way back when, I vaguely remember my dad trying to teach me DOS commands on an IBM PC and an 8-bit Mickey Mouse game that came on five-inch floppies...

Never recall anything about 3.1 or 95, but before I knew it we had two Dell desktops with 98; this was around 99/00. Pentium II 450MHz, 256MB, 10GB, some very early nVidia GPU (has a real funny name I do't recall atm), cost about the same as a tri-SLI rig does today

I remember playing like Monster Truck Madness and Midtown Madness with pretty smooth fps in like 01/02, but MM2 was already stressing the nVidia whatever-it-was. RollerCoaster Tycoon ran like a dream on those 450MHz; I could even play music while the game was running!

Then I got a laptop (400MHz Celeron ftw) with 98 and I personally used it through 2003. Even without SE, 98 was pretty darn smooth if you kept up with the clean installs every six months or so. My dad was actually using the second of those two old Dells (with 98) as late as 2007!

 

I still have gold box editions of the Dragonlance series & the greatest sci-fi computer game of all time: Starflight. All on 5.25" floppies. I'm getting all mist-eyed just thinking about them.

 

Remember? I just throwed it out a year ago
It never crashed on me, I called it old reliable.
64MBs Ram, P3 500Mhz & some other crappy specs

 

I started out with Windows 95 and wonderful AOL. I think the computer we bought was around $2300, but my mom used it up until a few years ago when I built her a new one. I never used ME I went from 98SE to XP.

 

P3 733mhz, Voodoo3 32MB RAM, 128MB SDRAM, 20GB 7.2k HDD =P

Damn this computer was slow using Windows XP. Windows XP is such a memory hog!

 

I used to run an emachines win 98 p2 366mhz. 32mb ram(upgraded to 256 ) a 4gb hd with Rage IIC IGP...I think, midtown madness ran at I'm gonna guess 5 fps then I upgraded to a p4 laptop

 

Windows 98 First Edition sucked. I knew little about malware so it was always slow, and by the time I got a new computer (fall 2003), I couldn't even connect to the internet via dial-up. Besides various 'illegal' errors and BSODs that occured randomly, i'd get a BSOD everytime I removed a USB device.

 

I also forgot that some games i was playing at that time were. Storybooks software(you know where they tell the stories in Animation and you click some random things in the picture for them to do random things)

Quite a leap from what I am playing today.

 

I had a

Dell Dimension
Pentium 2 450MHz
128MB RAM
12GB HDD
Riva TNT
ran 98 on it

then I went to a

Dell XPS B1000
Pentium III 1GHz
256MB RDRAM
30GB HDD
Geforce 2 GTS
ran ME on it. ME totally sucked lol. This system with an Eizo L66 cost $6500. Of course I did not pay for it though lol.

 

Yep sure do, about a year ago, my old HP that my stepmom gave me ran Windows 98 SE. I actually didn't mind using it. The OS itself was, at least for me, pretty solid and very fast even with only 128 MB of RAM (Later I would upgrade it to 192 MB shortly before I made the XP switch, it performed even better. Except that a lot of software companies stopped supporting it, and some of the programs/new technologies that did support it were buggy, would crash, and of course because it was Windows 9x, it would bring down the whole OS along with it.

The only reason I held off from installing XP earlier was due to HP's ominous message on their support site stating that "severe consequences" could occur because they didn't certify the hardware inside it to run XP, even though it did support Windows 2000. Later though I went for it. Everything was detected and worked without a hitch, and this wasn't a clean install. I actually thought that it was more stable with XP also. It was a bit sluggish but tolerable for me. (the machine had a motherboard defect that HP swept under a rug, resulting in lockups esp. when online-they became much less frequent under XP. )

Now it has 256 MB of RAM and is in my brothers room

 

My first computer had win98 SE on it, but only 64mb of ram. It was a piece of financed crap
This was before I knew what video cards and ram was though. Eventually I got it up to 512mb of ram, never put a video card in it, because I was saving up for a new system..

 

Compaq Presario, Windows 95, Pentium 166, 32 MB RAM, 1 MB on-board video, 2 GB hard drive, IE 2. I still remember the introduction routine with the actor who played Q in StarTrek The Next Generation: "Hello! So you bought yourself a new computer..." Upgraded to 128 MB of RAM after learning about the page file. It to this day remains the snappiest machine I've ever owned, once you got past installing 95 from floppies because the restore CD contained all the junkware you were trying to get rid of. A fresh install was about 50 MB. Our operating systems and software may be much more capable today, but they sure have grown bloated in the process.

 

I've had every version of Windows from 3.1 to Vista, with the exception of ME. Before that, I had both a Commodore 64 and a TRS 80. I have also had Macs with 7.5, 9.x, and 10.x operating systems. And started running Slackware 8.0, the first of many Linux distros. I didn't use Windows 3.1 much, as it was easier to launch programs from DOS and cut out the eyecandy.

 

Well yeah I do. I also remember the windowslike platform on my Atari 520 ST which was really nice and before or atleast at the same time as the 8086 pc. I also remember going to a 8086 with I think 32kb of Pc memory. My dad showed me how fast ram was by loading some of the directory from a 5,25" disk. I also played Spacequest III and Larry laffer looking for love on that machine with a yellow monochrone monitor where I should load a vga driver to have the pc see more than 2 colors (yellow/black)
To me nothing really happended on the os side (dos was dos) until windows 3 arrived and that I really didn't use much. At the univercity I programmed Turbo Pacal 7.0 which in DK at that time was exchanged with c++
Then I bought my first pc to use for study with windows 95. And with our network I remember most 3 things:

1. It was really funny to 'bomb' users on the net. A bsod and then a very confused user on mIrc
2. Quake was so thrilling and the first (as far as I know) real 3d game
3. My 3dFx card that brought the greatest graphics to my pc. It was a huge jump and really amazing!

Then 98 arrived. A little better and more stable but sadly the end of the easy bombing I knew about And even more interesting at that time was the Celeron 300A that was clockable to 450Mhz using a 100Mhz bus. That was sooooo amazing to be able to play any game thrown at it and together with a 3dfx or geforce card it was just unbelievable. I don't think we will see that situation again for atleast a while

I will say that the youth of the pc has been exciting indeed ;-)

 

Mine was a similar computer. Compaq Presario, windows 95, pentium 2 266 32 mb ram, ati rage pro, quantium big foot hard drive (dont remember how big) 5gb maybe...had video and audio inputs and a dvd drive. This was in 1996 btw. I had an apple IIe before that.

 

I remember when I was shopping for my first PC back in 1998. The one guy was selling had Windows 95 (I found out later). I remember it was an AMD K6 processor, and he wanted a grand for it, and I only had 900 on hand. I got it without the OS for 900. I got home turned it on, and ... nothing. I was so pissed. A couple of days later I went to J&R in NYC and got a copy of Caldera Open Linux for less than a half of what the Windows 95 was selling. Oh man, did I have fun configuring the modem to work with AOL

 

My first desktop was one that I put together myself, a PII 350 overclocked to 452mhz on an Abit BX6 revision 2 motherboard, nVidia Riva TNT 16mb overclocked, 4.3gb hard drive and 192mb RAM. I used Win 95 OSR2c on it for maybe 2 years or a bit more and refused to use win98 because I thought it only got more bloated and took up more space and ran slower than 95. I finally upgraded to win98 on that same machine when win98se came out. I then upgraded that machine to XP when it became available. It ran all of those OS's very well. It was a great machine....but I can't remember what became of it! It must have been either sold...or given to a friend. XP is/was a simply awesome OS, and honestly I think Win 95 was too, especially a good clean install and with OSR2. Everything else in between I didn't care much for.

 

Man you guys make me feel old, I remember my radioshack TRS80 model II quite fondly

 

Yep, we had two Trash-80's in our school library (but don't remember which model).

 

lol i remember windows 3.1 and myst. lol and windows 95 and 98. man mirc and music, lol big red racing was far as i could go. hahaha 5gb was alot back then xD age of empires was awesome haha, good times good times.

ive touched all the versions of windows except 2000,me and NT. man XP is such a great standard software.

nowadays vista does it for me, lol 10 years from now we will all be looking back at XP xD and all alot older. sigh

 

I loved Win 3.11. My most beloved was the C64.

 

Xp was the top OS all i know about IT was on an XP OS system still have a DT with XP OS on it still!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hmm the first computer I used was when I was 7-8 years old. It was a 286 my dad brought from work. That's when I learned DOS... Then about 2 years later my dad brought a 486, with turbo mode and all. This thing had Windows 3.1, now that was cool. I experienced the internet for the first time with my 14.4k modem.

Then when I was about 14, I had enough money to by myself a good computer (hoarded a bunch of money from babysitting). It was a Pentium MMX 233 Mhz, or something like that, with windows 95. It had a 4mb ATI video card and 32 mb of RAM I believe. Oh, and a soundblaster audio card and a 4x CD-rom, which was pretty neat.

Lol.

 

I remember my dad designing electrical circuits on CAD using DOS. It ran on a 386 tower with 3 or 4 gigabytes of HD storage. It was so bad-ass, it even had a floppy drive.

My first computer was a 66MHz 486 laptop (this was in 2002, mind you!) with 32MB of RAM, which was used by the police for field work; it was on the way to the garbage, however I asked my uncle if I could use it for my writing puposes. It served me well for 2 years running Windows 95.

 

Does anyone remember that game when you ran around as a Gorilla trying to find bananas?

 

My first computer was running dos but we upgraded to win3.1, I had to ask my dad to input the dos command when I wanted to play stuff like flashback(hard), Indiana Jones and the Fate Atlantis(never understood what the hell I was supposed to do) or X wing vs T-fighters... 98SE was the os where I came in contact of the "your will cry if you try to run me" on fs2000, well you can only expext so much from a pI mmx oc to 234mhz, 192 of ram and the craptastic s3 virge 2mb of vram