Win95 Time Machine

[Guest Luvrsmel]

Hello..

I'm posting this with a Seanix P266 (overclocked to 300MHz) and designed for

Windows 95 and running Windows 95. It feels like I'm back in 1996 again when

I first started on the internet. I was on the internet before most folks

knew what it was. At that time, I was using a 486 with a 2mb Trident video

card and 16mbs of ram. I was on dial up and I thought I had everything! I

will never forget that feeling when I configured my computer and got

connected for the first time..wow. I have been on the internet ever since.

OK, well, bye.

[Guest philo]

Re: Win95 Time Machine

 

 

"Luvrsmel" <not@here.com> wrote in message

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> Hello..

> I'm posting this with a Seanix P266 (overclocked to 300MHz) and designed

for

> Windows 95 and running Windows 95. It feels like I'm back in 1996 again

when

> I first started on the internet. I was on the internet before most folks

> knew what it was. At that time, I was using a 486 with a 2mb Trident video

> card and 16mbs of ram. I was on dial up and I thought I had everything! I

> will never forget that feeling when I configured my computer and got

> connected for the first time..wow. I have been on the internet ever since.

> OK, well, bye.

>

>

 

My girlfriend got her machine in 1995 (a Packard Bell). When she got a new

machine in 1999, I got my first computer...

her old Packard Bell.

The first time I got on-line I was nervous as hell because I had no idea

what I was doing and I had paid in advance for one year of dial-up service

....$100 !!!

 

All I thought was that I had wasted my money because I'd never get the hang

of it!

 

As it turned out the win95 browser, IE2 was part of my problem...and after a

4 hour download for IE5, I was all set.

 

Within a year I had the machine upgraded from a P-75 with 8 megs of RAM and

an 850 meg HD...

 

To an overdrive 200 mhz cpu 128 megs of ram and a 20 gig HD dual booting

win98se and Linux Red Hat 6

 

Even when I eventually got a better machine I still used the PB as a spare

for many more years and finally retired it a few years back. I put it back

to it's original state when I put it into storage.

[Guest Tim Slattery]

Re: Win95 Time Machine

 

"Luvrsmel" <not@here.com> wrote:

>Hello..

>I'm posting this with a Seanix P266 (overclocked to 300MHz) and designed for

>Windows 95 and running Windows 95. It feels like I'm back in 1996 again when

>I first started on the internet. I was on the internet before most folks

>knew what it was.

 

Ahem...some of us knew what the Internet was quite a while before

1996. I used to use Trumpet Winsock to get Windows 3.1 online.

 

--

Tim Slattery

MS MVP(DTS)

Slattery_T@bls.gov

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

[Guest Haggis]

Re: Win95 Time Machine

 

 

"Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message

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> "Luvrsmel" <not@here.com> wrote:

>

>>Hello..

>>I'm posting this with a Seanix P266 (overclocked to 300MHz) and designed

>>for

>>Windows 95 and running Windows 95. It feels like I'm back in 1996 again

>>when

>>I first started on the internet. I was on the internet before most folks

>>knew what it was.

>

> Ahem...some of us knew what the Internet was quite a while before

> 1996. I used to use Trumpet Winsock to get Windows 3.1 online.

>

> --

> Tim Slattery

> MS MVP(DTS)

> Slattery_T@bls.gov

> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

 

like you said Tim <g>

 

ahem..on a 286 (12Mhz) with 4mb RAM! (1991)

 

the XT wouldn't cut it ...well ..for me <g>

[Guest glee]

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"Haggis" <zeddySPAM@MEeastlink.ca> wrote in message

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>

> "Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message

> news:p63mb3lc7pajnea41g0hgheeeopnmk3gj5@4ax.com...

>> "Luvrsmel" <not@here.com> wrote:

>>

>>>Hello..

>>>I'm posting this with a Seanix P266 (overclocked to 300MHz) and designed for

>>>Windows 95 and running Windows 95. It feels like I'm back in 1996 again when

>>>I first started on the internet. I was on the internet before most folks

>>>knew what it was.

>>

>> Ahem...some of us knew what the Internet was quite a while before

>> 1996. I used to use Trumpet Winsock to get Windows 3.1 online.

>>

>

> like you said Tim <g>

>

> ahem..on a 286 (12Mhz) with 4mb RAM! (1991)

>

> the XT wouldn't cut it ...well ..for me <g>

 

Our first Win95 system was an upgrade from Win3.1... it was a 486 (25MHz) with 8MB

RAM (upgraded from 4), a 200MB hard drive, and a 9600 Hayes modem. Whoo-hoo!

--

Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+

http://dts-l.org/

http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

[Guest Luvrsmel]

Re: Win95 Time Machine

 

Ha ha ha ha....Yes, well actually Tim....*ahem*...after I familiarized

myself with Windows95 and before jumping ship from my 8 bit Commodore 128

using dialup on a 1200 baud modem (in 1995), I began to experiment with

other MS' operating systems as well. That being WFW 3.11..at which time

(1998) I was realizing the limitations of the 16bit system.

I still have that system and every now and then, I will plug it in and

travel back with this 1994 Time Machine!

Granted, yes internet use was available prior to the time you specified, but

there was still a very large majority of the North American population that

didn't have it, much less even knew what it was. I didn't say that no-one

knew what it was.

 

"Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message

news:p63mb3lc7pajnea41g0hgheeeopnmk3gj5@4ax.com...

> "Luvrsmel" <not@here.com> wrote:

>

> >Hello..

> >I'm posting this with a Seanix P266 (overclocked to 300MHz) and designed

for

> >Windows 95 and running Windows 95. It feels like I'm back in 1996 again

when

> >I first started on the internet. I was on the internet before most folks

> >knew what it was.

>

> Ahem...some of us knew what the Internet was quite a while before

> 1996. I used to use Trumpet Winsock to get Windows 3.1 online.

>

> --

> Tim Slattery

> MS MVP(DTS)

> Slattery_T@bls.gov

> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt