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someones using windows 95?

The last business PCs I saw running Windows 95 was back in 2004. Those machines got decommissioned and XP was the required standard in the company by the end of that year.
 
Go to some mom and pop car repair shop and see if the wheel balance machine or some other shop tool isn't running Win 95.
 
We got rid of a Win98 machine last year. We still have a couple DOS machines out there (IBM PS/2's). They run a simple weather station. Should switch to a modern device or a Raspberry Pi. Hell, a lot of the newer weather stations can connect to a standard PC. But, if it works.... They dial into it and get the info nightly.
 
Until two year ago I was running Exchange for a university.
Every month or so I would hand Security a list of machines which had hit the boxes which were running a non-supported OS.
There were still a handful of Win98, ME, 2000 and Mac OS9 machines in the logs. Most were from external IPs so nothing Security could do about those.
 
heatlesssun said:
I do remember those in some places but I've not seen a Commie 64 (just a joke, I was a Tandy/RS Color Computer fan, fanboy stuff from the 80s) for a long time.
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Wow. Surprised it wasn't an Apple IIe vs. C64 debate in the 80's. Those Tandy fanboys back then were rare. And really weird. Like really odd fellows. :p
 
i started on a tandy in '91...
all the local tire/mech shops around here are on xp or older. well maybe not the new fountain tire but everything else is as ive personally done pc work for all of them. one of the mech shops still has some old DOS? box for their tire balancer and alignment machines.
 
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mcravenufo said:
Some shops use a Commodore 64.
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I had an Uncle that ran and accounting business on C64s for YEARS... after commodore went under. He had programmed all his own tax software ect in commodore basic... as a kid I remember visiting him and seeing boxes and boxes of dot matrix printouts of basic code. He had a closet with still in the box backup c64s for years, which was pretty cool.

He was using them well into the late 90s... I remember taking him my taxs at one point when I'm pretty sure I had just built an AMD thunderbird machine and he was still using C64s, I think at that point he was transitioning to IBM-PC still they where around and running. He worked form home and I don't think many of his larger business clients had ever seen his setup.... I assume they would have ran for the hills if they ever visited. :) lol
 
Ur_Mom said:
Wow. Surprised it wasn't an Apple IIe vs. C64 debate in the 80's. Those Tandy fanboys back then were rare. And really weird. Like really odd fellows. :p
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Apple II's were for leets back then, way out of my price range.:playful:
 
heatlesssun said:
Apple II's were for leets back then, way out of my price range.:playful:
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One of my mates had an awesome Apple II setup, I was so envious - Although it was all based around needs, the C64 still held many advantages due to it's superior graphics and sound. But the 1541 without some form of accelerator was just so slooow and the expansion bus on the Apple II was something to be really envious of, if I had have had one I would have run it with the lid off just to see all those cables and cards.

My other mate had a TRS-80, I remember making a floppy controller for it and connecting it to a dual floppy drive we bought from the scrap metal place and made an aluminium case to put it all in.

Ah those were the days, down and dirty with a tiny budget!
 
Loved the Windows 9x series, 95 and especially 98 were my favourite OS's from Microsoft. I liked those Windows Themes in 95 Plus!/98 the most, too bad they weren't really present in the future NT versions.
 
I still have a PC that runs with Win2kPro on it but it is not currently hooked up.
 
pendragon1 said:
i did. never had the issues most did. lucky i guess....
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ME was one of those OSes which, if you got a system specifically built for it, it ran fine ( usually ). However, if you tried to load ME on a system not specifically designed for it, it was garbage. Still, I can't complain; I earned a lot of money because of ME ( and later, Vista ).

More on topic, I still have a system running 95. Niche hardware in a secure government environment. I don't know if it's all original equipment, but I can tell you that the hardware is at least 10 years old ( as long as I've been supporting it ). Honestly, I'm terrified of the thing, so I try to not even look at it if I can help it. It's going to fall over someday and cause a massive stink, I'm just hoping that I've successfully "delegated" it as far away from me as possible by that point.
 
I ran ME, I never had an issue with it that I didn't have under 98SE.

As far as OS's go I think people's memories of how good Windows 98 really was has faded a little. When it came to the Win 9x era that 6 monthly reinstall from scratch was literally a necessity.

Long live AmigaOS 3.1!!
 
rezerekted said:
I still have a PC that runs with Win2kPro on it but it is not currently hooked up.
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Same, though mine's not hooked up because the motherboard died recently. I also have a Win98SE machine that's just sitting somewhere and never gets used anymore.
 
rezerekted said:
I did, and had no more issues than I did with Win98SE. I think it depended on your hardware if it would play nice or not. I never bought ME, a friend gave me a copy so used it.
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Ah, remember the days before activation!
 
vegeta535 said:
I never had issues with ME and shocker vista either. I always had mostly update PC so it cause less issue then the shit box store PC most people bought then.
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I had issues with Vista, it used to just thrash the shit out of the hard drive constantly....

The days before SSD's....
 
Insert standard comment about how moronic it is to have an OS that is no longer patched on a network, any network.

No, antivirus and firewalls are not enough. Unless you are air-gapped, ditch the unsupported OS!
 
BulletDust said:
I had issues with Vista, it used to just thrash the shit out of the hard drive constantly....

The days before SSD's....
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It would "thrash" the hard drive because it was using the prefetch that Windows Vista was designed to use. It really helped make the computer fast and responsive, as long as you had enough ram. The bad thing was, because of all the folks who became all upset about it, they neutered that ability in Windows 7 and there was no way to re enable it. (Caused Windows 7 to run a lot slower off the hard drive because, what was the point of loading stuff into ram 5 to 10 minutes after boot up when I need to use the computer now.)
 
BulletDust said:
I ran ME, I never had an issue with it that I didn't have under 98SE.

As far as OS's go I think people's memories of how good Windows 98 really was has faded a little. When it came to the Win 9x era that 6 monthly reinstall from scratch was literally a necessity.

Long live AmigaOS 3.1!!
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Long live the Guru Meditation Error! The last OS available before Commodore went away was Amiga OS 2.04 and that was quite good to me.
 
ManofGod said:
Nope, unless of course, you bought a computer with only 512 MB of ram. :D
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I think Zarathustra meant that people often complained about the HDD trashing in Windows Vista precisely for the reason you mentioned - too little RAM.

I had a few Vista laptops at work, Toshibas. Oddly enough, the batteries were okay for around 40 minutes to an hour even after almost 10 years.

Anyway, with 1 Gig of RAM it was unusable. Mind you this was with the vendor's bloatware removed. When I added the second Gig, it was perfectly fine. But, nevertheless, 7 felt easier on the HDD whenever I upgraded Vistas to 7s.

One thing I really hated in Vista, my main complaint really, were the default settings for Windows Explorer. There was something 'off'. I remember it liked to revert to a certain (small) window size, defaulted to libraries AFAIK.

Vista was really pretty though.
 
michalrz said:
I think Zarathustra meant that people often complained about the HDD trashing in Windows Vista precisely for the reason you mentioned - too little RAM.

I had a few Vista laptops at work, Toshibas. Oddly enough, the batteries were okay for around 40 minutes to an hour even after almost 10 years.

Anyway, with 1 Gig of RAM it was unusable. Mind you this was with the vendor's bloatware removed. When I added the second Gig, it was perfectly fine. But, nevertheless, 7 felt easier on the HDD whenever I upgraded Vistas to 7s.

One thing I really hated in Vista, my main complaint really, were the default settings for Windows Explorer. There was something 'off'. I remember it liked to revert to a certain (small) window size, defaulted to libraries AFAIK.

Vista was really pretty though.
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Honestly, I still think that most of the thrashing complaints, at least the ones here and on other tech boards, were because of the prefetch itself. Of course, I had 4GB of ram right from 2008 so there is that. :)
 
ManofGod said:
Honestly, I still think that most of the thrashing complaints, at least the ones here and on other tech boards, were because of the prefetch itself. Of course, I had 4GB of ram right from 2008 so there is that. :)
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Yeah it was either the prefetcher being too ambitious or the indexing service.
It happened in 4 gig machines, too, but less frequently.
It was probably tunable but TBH I never really gave Vista a lot of time.
Besides, I began using SSDs exclusively at the same time 7 popped out. And now, whenever I'm on a mechanical drive with either Vista OR 7 on them, I consider them both way too slow. Got addicted to SSDs :p
 
I have recently (within the last year) not only worked on a Win95 system, but also had to source and build a system for it with a motherboard that supported ISA cards. It was connected to an (extremely expensive) milling machine that the business didn't have the money to replace. While paying far more than the hardware should have been worth, it was still a bargain compared to the money required to do a full replacement.
 
The death of win 3.11, Win 95/98/SE/ME/2k etc eventually comes due to ancient hardware failure. You get to a point where you can't get parts to keep something ancient alive with ancient parts. Therefore you have to get newer parts and... no drivers and whala... the end of an OS. I still had grandmothers coming in with Win3.11 pc's to a shop in 2001. It was 9 yrs old. We thought it bonkers that it was still running then. However, time eventually kills any machine. Even old car repair shops have to replace the dead machine eventually. I suspect that is why Windows XP is now disappearing. Lack of driver support and replacement parts slowly taking it out. I wonder when Microsoft will rename Windows 10. Microsoft OS "Tornado" or some crap lol.
 
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