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I remember the days when a 486 DX computer was the one you wanted to snag when you went into the computer room. Nobody wanted a rubbish 386. Windows was in its 3.11 form. Win95 was referred to as "Chicago Windows". Then it came. People loved it and people hated it. Some people hated the idea of a Recycle Bin. Right click was silly. There were a host of likes and dislikes in the Computer Buyer magazine which from that issue onwards became smaller in dimensions and more compact.

Our first home computer was a Pentium 100Mhz. Games were my main focus and whilst I played lots of DOS games, I started playing more Windows based games. No more rubbish graphics or having to mess around with memmaker (incidentally the highest base memory I ever got was 630k - all to play some DOS game that I can't remember the name of). Everything went from clunky to slick and smooth. Win98 felt like a more advanced but more buggy version of it. I recall fondly the PowerToys that made things a lot easier.

Anyone else remember when they first used Win95?

1995, eh? Gather round, kids, grandad's gonna tell you a story!

Actually, no I'm not, but in 1995 I was working for Olivetti, and we had to install Windows 95 onto their brand new multimedia computer. It was called the Envision and the fact that it was discontinued a year later says more about it than I can.

Since we are trundling down memory lane, my first PC, (by which I mean IBM compatible) was a Zenith Supersport 286

My first computer was a VAX 11/750 (well, the first one I used). The first one I owned was a ZX81. 1Mhz processor, 1KB RAM and you could still play games on it - although you needed a 16KB RAM Pack to play flight simulator or 3D Monster Maze.

Try putting a 3D game in 16KB these days.

When Windows 95 came out, I had just bought a Gateway 2000 Pentium 90 with 17" display and a free upgrade to Windows 95.

What I remember most is how people hated the Start Menu, it was evil and people wanted the Program Manager. Funny how we have come full circle and with Windows 8 you got the Program Manager in an updated for and people hated it and wanted the Start Menu back...

My only real memory of it is playing Theme Park on an IBM machine of some description. And then having to type in some code to get it running on my mate's machine.

I've no idea what version we were even using in school - I just wasn't interested in computers then. It wasn't until XP did I start to learn and tinker with things. I had an Atari ST previously so maybe Windows just didn't seem so special.

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I recall using 95 in schools over here just as I left university.
I have no really fond memories of using any computer OS, never having owned any sort of computer personally until arount 2001.

Mark

i still have a win95 disc with the 95 additions/extras disc original book with licence ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc

Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry from Friends.

Ahh. The 90s.

My first (family) PC was a P90 (mhz) Pentium with Windows 95 in late 1995.
500MB HDD, 8 MB RAM, 14" CRT screen.

That's painful. They must have been paid an absolute fortune for that. You'd hope.

Me too, and Office 95 (I ditched the Office 4.3 CD a few years ago).

One thing with Windows 3.11 and Windows 95, you knew what every registry key did and you could quickly solve problems. The registry got so bloated with 2000/XP and hasn't improved since. Now you can only really learn a few keys and what they do, there are just too many these days.

Having gone to school in Scotland I went from a BBC to a Mac Plus then various iterations of Mac Classics and finally onto LC40's IIRC. By the time I left secondary school the first generation of PowerMacs were just coming out.
Only experience of Win 95 was when visiting friends and family. Didn't have a computer at home (other than the ZX Spectrum 48k and later 128k) for years until dad salvaged an old Dell box and I have a sneaking suspicion that actually had Windows 98 on it and another one later came with the joys of Windows ME.
At university they still had Windows for Workgroups 3.11 IIRC and then went straight to NT4 so I guess, other than noticing the hype at the time I missed out on Windows 95 almost completely.

I installed Windows 95 from floppy disks (lots of them!) on my first IBM compatible PC. It was a 486DX266 (AMD) and was previously running DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. I liked 95 a lot compared to 3.11 although arguably I spent most of my time in DOS anyway playing games.

30 fd's installed on my 486dx2 50. Fun days of autoexe.bat and config files to get games to run. . My copy ended up on at least another 8 systems.

We had Win95 on CD-ROM. But I was advised to make a backup. Hence me trying back up windows on to floppies. I think I bought a ridiculous number (>100).

Never had Windows 95.

My first computing experience in the 70s was all with mainframes where everything was done using punched paper tape or cards and the results came printed out on the green and white striped paper.

I didn't get involved with computers again until the late 80s when I got into what was at the time called "DTP". The first one ran under GEM on an Amstrad badged PC. I think that there was DOS lurking somewhere underneath but you never got to see it. Then I moved on to Pagemaker which came bundled with a run-time copy of Windows 2! After that I graduated up the Quark XPress 2 which at the time was Macintosh only, running on a Mac II running System 6.

The first computer I actually owned myself was a Quadra 650 running System 7. It had a caddy loading CD-ROM drive!