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Ha, that brings back memories of trying to get Windows 95 installed on an old 386 machine with a 100 MB harddrive, 2 MB of RAM and only a floppy drive. I think
by lqet 6y ago
Ha, that brings back memories of trying to get Windows 95 installed on an old 386 machine with a 100 MB harddrive, 2 MB of RAM and only a floppy drive. I think this was 2001 or so, and you could already download the floppy disk set for Windows 95. If I recall correctly, there was a warning during the installation that Windows would be very slow on this machine. The warning was correct. I think it took 10-20 seconds just to open the start menu. I quickly reverted back to Windows 3.11. That machine is stored somewhere at my parent's house. Last time I checked, it still worked.
- acomjean 6y agoMy brother had the floppy disk install for windows 95 . We recently got rid of the 20+ floppy disks that it took.
- lqet 6y agoAs a kid, I didn't have that many spare floppy disks. Simple solution: write the first disk image on your father's machine you used for downloading it, start the installation on your machine, and as soon as it asks for disk 2, remove disk 1, insert it into your father's machine and write the disk 2 image to it. It took a while, but man was I proud when I saw that boot screen that looked so much cooler than that boring Windows 3.11 box.
- anthk 6y agoBy 2001 you could get a cheap 32MB SIMM with $10 and run W95 relatively well. Add a 486 which for sure where like $5-$10 (A Pentium MMX was about $20-30) and you'd be relatively well. Opera 6? still ran on 486 aceptability, and Lynx flew.