29 Sep
2005
29 Sep
'05
4 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:26:45 -0700 (PDT)
Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
95
Yet Another Ten Year Rule Discussion)
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
> Step careful, now. By that criterion, it's time for long technical
> threads about getting obscure graphics adapters to work under
Windows
3.1.
It's WAY worse than that. Under the simplistic 10 year rule, Windoze is now "ON-TOPIC"!
Under the "coolness" principle, it might NEVER be on-topic.
There are 'aspects' of Windows 95 that are interesting. Did you know
that there is a 5-1/4" floppy version of Windows 95? It's for HD
floppies, but it does exist. I ordered it using the coupon in the back
of my 'CD' version of Windows 95. It has the unique feature of being
the OLDEST and SMALLEST version of Windows 95. Copy all the diskettes
into one big directory and you have an aprox 30 meg cluster of files.
Install it on a system and it is an extremely no-frills version. No
Internet nothin' for example. And it doesn't prompt for a CD key to
install, and it doesn't 'fingerprint' the diskettes like the 3-1/2"
diskette version.
It's the version of Windows 95 to install on a machine that just needs
the bare minimum install, i.e. a workbench system that you have some 32
bit emulator tool or what-not that you need working.
Even scarier, one time I was digging through the bins at some surplus
outfit, and I came up with, like diskette #54 for an install of
Microsoft Word for Windows, the 5-1/4" DSDD version. Not sure where the
other 53 diskettes were, or if there were 60 or 80 total. But someone,
somewhere, has that.
Being an 'original software media' collector, I ALWAYS order the
alternative media unless it's prohibitively expensive. So I have
Windows 98 on 3-1/2" floppies. Windows NT 3.51 on 3-1/2" floppies.
Tons and tons of diskettes. Usually for close to what blank diskettes
would have cost (Microsoft for some odd reason sent me two sets of
Windows 98 diskettes and charged me only for the one).
Sorry. A bit of blather about the Redmonders, I guess.