Windows 95 on an old 286 computer !?

Hello everyone..

Does anyone remember the good ol' 286 computer ? The good old floppy disks and the horrendous graphics ?

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My tech teacher managed to load windows 95 onto the computer with a floppy disk. How did she do it ? I have no idea. I decided to try it out as it runs a little bit slow but it is however pretty neat. I thought that it was pretty cool how she did this to a really old computer. Does anyone know how she did this ?!

 

That 98 is a hunk of junk so dont worry about it.

 

It's 95 not 98

 

There both old anyway dont try installing either one.

 

Hi.

I remember installing 95, it came on around 50 floppy disks, they only had 1-2 speed cd-roms then and most people did not have them.

I still have the disks with windows 3.11 and windows for work groups.

John.

 

I ran Windows 95 on a Pentium 133, megahertz-not gigahertz, it was the fastest processor at the time, 16mb RAM, and a huge 1gb hdd. Internet connection was via a 28.8 modem. Outstanding system performance.

My how things have changed.

 

My first PC was a Tandy 486-25SX. Yes 25 Megahertz with no math co-processor. Came with Win3.1 but for my parent's first PC for them to type letters on, I upgraded it to Win95B. Three different versions of 95 back then. The 486 handled it but it was all it could do. A 286? That would be like trying to put Vista on a Pentium 90. By the way, I still have that old Tandy sitting on a shelf for sentimental reasons as my parents moved up to internet and a Dell 3Ghz. Hmmm. 25Mhz to 3000Mhz. They thought the PC was a little snappier than their first one.

 

There are still quite a lot of people using Windows 98SE today. I stumbled across a site and forum dedicated to using it when Microsoft ended support for it.

 

I did a service call for a metal shop a couple months ago...they had this gigantic scanner the size of a pickup truck they use to match a cut pieces to the original mechanical drawings--this $60,000 scanner's software only works on Windows 95 and so their entire business depends on a 15 year old piece of crap computer that you cannot find parts for.

I had another call last year where this guy had a piece of software they used for calling a semi-truck load brokerage service every night; the software downloaded the loads each night so when the office staff came in they could set up pick ups and deliveries for the day. Again, it only worked on Windows 95.

I actually keep a handful of old computers in my workgroup just in case I need emergency parts for things just like this.

 

gerry, the same is common in our labs, for example they have spectral scanners that can only connect to older computers, the newer computers just dont have the port, and they dont feel like spending tens of thousands of dollars to get new spectrum scanners just to update thier software.

 

Stop lights use an intel 4004 running at 50 kilohertz.