Win95 Time Machine

[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.

 

[philo]

"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.

 

[Tim Slattery]

"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

 

[Haggis]

"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>

 

[glee]

"Haggis" <zeddySPAM@MEeastlink.ca> wrote in message
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>
> "Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message
> news63mb3lc7pajnea41g0hgheeeopnmk3gj5@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

 

[Luvrsmel]

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
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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