Thanks for the reminder of the 25th Anniversary. This was and is my favorite gaming system and computer. Yeah, I understand the speed and video quality of today's machines are off the charts, but if I was stuck on a deserted island and could only have one system it would be the Win95. Still have my original Win 3.1 & Win 95 systems. One of my machines has both and with a "Buttons for Dos" program I can jump between 3.1, 95 and Dos all on the same computer. Tons of games for this system, not to mention all the cool screensavers. Love the Dos only side and then going back into 3.1, or 95. That Gateway 2000 is really sweet. Thanks for sharing this great machine. Who can forget the "cow" boxes???
Oh my God. Your footage of Interstate '76 brought back so many memories of playing a demo of it on my childhood PC. I never knew what the game was, but had extremely vivid memories of it and you just brought back so many of those feels from then. Thank you for showing that game!
Gateway, IBM were super expensive here in Sweden. Top-notch high end systems, so most of us either built their own or bought what Americans call boutique built systems which were faaar cheaper than prebuilts like these.
"Choosing what features you want" Windows 10: not on my watch! enjoy all the crap you never wanted nor can uninstall! Wish Microsoft would at least release a Win95 theme (sort of the since-removed classic theme) on Win10. But oh well, Windows 7 was the last standing soldier of customisation :'(
I had such a bad user experience with Windows 10 it's the OS that drove me to be a Manjaro MATE user on all my main machines with with Chromium OS, and Mac OSX Catalina(recently scored a free 13in mid-2012 Macbook Pro in decent shape) on the side.
The Microsoft of 1995 is ABSOLUTELY GONE. There is no connection between MS of 1995 and today. That is true of up to the 2000s. Microsoft is not even an American company any more. The software sucks, it's slow, it's completely un-intuitive . All of the good developers at MS were outsourced to Bindis who bring in their entire village on visas. They are completely incompetent and completely corrupt. It's a fiefdom. It is one of the major reasons why silicone valley innovation has almost entirely stopped. It is why so much stuff doesn't work anymore.
First thing I do on install windows 10 is to run a powershell script that removes ALL the apps. The next is to turn off a shitton of services. Then set the updates to be delayed for 30 days so I can do then WHEN I fuking want to, (after I install all the other things I do want). Windows 10 is fine after you tweak the LIVING FUK out of it. Except for the really stupid double control panel thing. Yeah 2 different main control panels depending on what you want to tweak. OMFG who thought that up should be SHOT.
@tarstarkusz You realize that people complained that nothing worked back in the Win95 days, too? And they were right. Things were far worse. Software crashed CONSTANTLY. You probably had to reinstall drivers a few times a year. Stuff would happen, and you'd have no way to troubleshoot it. Win95 was an unstable mess in many ways. WinNT was far better, but had terrible driver support and only ran business software. In 1995 it was a FAR BIGGER DEAL to be able to not install components you wouldn't use because space was expensive. My first HDD for Windows 95 was 1 gigabyte, and adding a second would have cost a TON (and not all software could install on or use data from a second HDD, too). The 2gb that the extra Windows components take these days is literally nothing in comparison.
Good old Windows 95. I remember not liking the interface at first since it was so radically different from Win 3.11, but it quickly grew on me. Now I can't imagine Windows or any other OS without a start button or task bar. I have so many fond memories of PC building, and playing those old games. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I tapped the like button as soon as I saw your shelf of OSes / operating environments in their original boxes at 0:00 though I felt the position of Windows 98 was just a tad out of place. Nice collection!
I tapped the like button as soon as I saw your mention of the original boxes being out of chronological order though I felt I had to scroll down way too far to find this. Nice catch!
What a great nostalgic show! This is the computer I got for college. It was amazing in its day. That EV900 was the envy of my friends and that startup sound was always so loud because my speakers were up from playing Half-Life.
Excellent video. I have a Windows 95 computer and it gets used. With all its niggles and foibles, it was the progenitor of some great operating systems such as 98SE, XP and 7, which I have on various computers. It deserves to be celebrated. The simplicity of the early systems is so refreshingly easy when compared to the mind boggling maze of Windows 10. Three cheers for Windows 95! 🎈🎉
Croc was a game with endless fun time spent. Underrated. Win95 was a legendary transition That blue background alone was intriguing enough. It ran well on i486/SX
Thank you so much for putting this video together, nostalgia levels are off the charts!! :D Really well done, great production quality, I hope you can produce one more, showcasing the MS office suite and other production software. I know, not as fun to watch, but interesting and a trip down memory lane nonetheless. And you can still use i.e. MS Word from Office97 for all your Word Documents' needs!! That's mind boggling...
Congrats on the anniversary. I still remember installing it for the first time(s) in the mid 1990's. I even remember watching the Edie Brickell "Good Times" music video included on the install CD. It takes me back to those younger days 25 years ago. Of course I was still also using Windows 3.1 & MS-DOS then at the same time (I still do today on occasion).
thanks a lot bro, I've been searching for this music video for 10 years! I didn't remember the title and now I've finally found it thanks to your comment
The case itself is very nostalgic to me... Especially with that missing front panel cover. But my Win95 based Gateway 2000 model was about a year older, so had different internals. My P5-200 Minitower was a Socket 7 MMX 200 MHz with 32MB of RAM. It had a weak S3 Trio videocard, but a real Soundblaster that was branded with the Gateway cowbox logo. I still keep all of the essential parts, but unfortunately I threw out the case to save space, back when cases were not yet collectible...
While clearly different, I can see the family resemblance between this case+monitor and my family's. We have an older P5-166 desktop which shares the same curves and button shapes as this tower.
Nice video :) I have used windows 98 so much that windows 95 startup sound is so nostalgic to me. I had to watch that part of the video a few time over.
HBD Win 95, can't believe it has been 25 years. The first brand new computer we owned I remember was a Olivetti Pentium 75. It came with Win 3.11 but had what I think was free or almost free mail in order for a Win 95 upgrade CD.
What a throwback! I had that same model back in the day. My first computer. Oh the memories and hours trying to get drivers to work. While hoping and praying I would not boot to the dreaded blue screen of death. Kids today have it so easy. Time to go soak my feet in Epsom salt.
lol, yes I remember the drivers for Win95 were a nightmare. They got better for Win98, but then Win98 still had its own stability issues. I'd retired the hardware by the time I switched to Win2K, skipped WinME completely. No wait I had already switched to an o'c celeron build in that GW case by Win98SE. Heh, it came with a 4GB HDD, yet today we have 1TB, mSD cards the size of my pinky nail.
Clearly the previous owner took meticulous care of not only the computer, but the software they bought for it, I'm surprise they kept the boxes for those lovely games. Oh how I love 90s PC games.
Consider that back then, that computer cost over $2000 in 1997-98 dollars, so yeah, the more something cost, the more it's an investment you take care of. Plus it was build with quality materials. Quality from a construction standpoint, not tech. The tech was middling, about what you'd expect but a high quality 440LX intel branded/OEM motherboard.
I grew up on this PC and still have it set up as my go-to machine for games from the era. I remember that Riva card being comically bad when I tried to play Half-Life on it (thankfully was able to upgrade to a Voodoo3) but I actually really liked the sound from that Ensoniq card, especially with the Boston speakers that the system came with. Monitor was awesome too. Worth noting, if yours is like mine then there's supposed to be a plastic shroud over the CPU that connects to the intake fan on the PSU. No idea if it's actually necessary to keep it cool but I noticed it's missing in this one.
I have this windows 95 when I was 6 years old Of course, I was a kid and don't know too much about windows tech But now I'm 20 and I'm here to see this one again Thank you Tech Tangents to bring it back to my childhood
Windows 95 was great not just because it was a revolutionary OS but also because it introduced us to the fantastic world of digital video and audio which back then was in its infancy, I remember being impressed by watching the demo video "Edie Brickell - Good Times" on the Windows 95 CD. Most people didn't consider PC as a video/audio machine because they still weren't aware of its real capabilities
Oh man, that Startup tune. Nostalgia turned up to 11. Windows 95 was great, having the Rolling Stones on the advertisements is something that sticks with me. Start me up, indeed.
A gateway PC I remember I wanted one of those so bad when I was a kid. Parents got me a Packard Bell instead as my first PC. I loved it. Playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, The Sims, Redline so many fond memories.
Wow just had a huge nostalgia hit over a funny thing.. that under-monitor power strip platform. We had that same one on our first family computer and it got transferred to many subsequent ones over the years
This brought back a few good memories. I still have my original boxed Win 95 (has CD). Had to get it out to have a look, box is a bit squashed but the insides look just as new. I notice with my version that even though it came with a install CD, it also came with sheets of official Microsoft floppy disk labels. Looking closer I notice there are 33 floppy disk stickers in all. I never used them hence they are untouched and still on their backing sheet. I am therefore assuming that my version of Win 95 has the option to generate the floppy disks also, how cool is that :) As for version, I am assuming its one of the very first run of official releases because the label on top of the box says 050-052-950A 07-09-95. Still has the price sticker on the box £69.33. I was running Win 3.1 at the time and wanted to upgrade. I spent all my money on the win 95 upgrade that I couldn't afford to buy any games so for months and months I just played what games there were on Win 95..ahhh those were the days :)
I had this exact system, except probably bought a few months earlier so came with a lower MHz P2 CPU. Kept the case, modded the intake and cut out two 80mm rear exhaust fan mounts and two front fans for more airflow, and reused the case over 3 more rebuilds. The rear PSU hole can be enlarged and screw holes added to fit a standard ATX PSU. I'm not into nostalgia of returning old equipment to use, but once the case had the 4 fans added and the bottom of the bezel opened up for more intake airflow, it was fine, nice and quiet with the fans at low RPM. A very sturdy case too, that I eventually added a front USB port pair to, not with a bay module but instead cutting a square hole in the plastic bezel and epoxying it in. Looked very professional like it came that way. I no longer use that case but still have it. Probably due to be recycled along with several other items that are technologically obsolete. I miss the keyboard. It was very durable, great key action, not quite an IBM model M but very long lasting, with key markings molded in, so they don't wear off. It outlasted any other keyboard I've had since, mainly replaced it because I wanted one in black and cordless.
Win95 was revolutionary for Microsoft. But everything from multi-tasking to plug n play had been done with the Amiga. Amiga's had a 32-bit "auto-config" Zorro bus with the A3000 in 1990.
Oh man, this system was surprisingly nostalgic. Our family's 300 megahertz Pentium II had one of those HP Cd writers as well, I remember that blue eject button vividly.
There is something so satisfying about having a complete OEM system - with matching monitor, KB & mouse, speakers, etc. Hey, while I’m at it, if you have media kits for any OEM systems (desktop or laptop!) please take a moment to upload it on Internet Archive. These software bundles are getting harder to find...
Was just reminded of this when I just moved my two Packard Bell 15" CRT monitors into my new apartment over the weekend.... After watching this video I think I'm going to power up both the 486 and Pentium computers
I have a gateway monitor being shipped to me right now and the total package is 60lbs. Fingers crossed this person took this much care because it's going from California to Ohio lol Last CRT I had shipped to me works great, but the way it was packaged is hilarious. 5 layered boxes with a crap ton of news paper and packing peanuts in between each box. It was a 14" PVM but the package was almost 3 times the size and was covered in duct tape lol Took me 10 to 15 minutes to unpackage the thing. I think I'd rather have a shipping crate with a ton of padding like in the video lmao
I think I had this same system in my family as a kid, or at least one from the same era as I still have that book of CDs, and we had those speakers you were lacking kicking around into the XP era.
It would be so appreciated if you made a build guide for retro Windows 98/95 PCs. What to look for parts-wise, things to know for assembly and configuration, what modern parts can functionally substitute for original if needed?
I had a system in that case (but possibly not this exact system) and it had those Boston Acoustics speakers with it, and they were great! I was still using them up until about 2 years ago when they finally gave up the ghost.
Fun Fact: Much like other Windows 9x family oses (Windows 98 and ME), Windows 95 still has DOS on its core, meaning that they still can play even the very first pc games
Takes me back to my secondary school years, Windows 95 was the newest os we had in our school at the time, this was going back to the year 1997 early 1998. Laugh is windows 95 stayed with us to we left school in 2002, when windows 2000 was just starting to come about, So it was around for a good while. I found it more smoother than windows 98, and do i dare say a little more stable too.
win98 se was much better, and stable than win95. Also in general, better compatibility. But some hardware could run better on win 95, maybe it was your case.
Win95 Love at first sight :D i remember at school in Norway it was win95 and i played doom sharware that was hidden on the computer :D and also often chekked for new render/photos of lara croft XD over time FlightSim95, MonsterTruck Madness and Need for speed love for tho`s too :D Awsome Video :D
What I remember most about that series of DOS-based Windows systems (95, 98, and Millenium) was how unreliable they were. I had to set up a dual-boot system. Windows NT (which was rock-solid) for the serious work stuff, and Win 9X for gaming (because most games wouldn't work on NT since it prevented direct hardware access and other developer sins that were commonplace back in those days). By the way: DirectX (9:33) wasn't just 3D graphics. There was Direct3D (which was the 3d graphics), DirectMusic (a high-level software synthesizer), DirectSound (low-level sound), DirectInput (Joystick and stuff), DirectPlay (networking/multiplayer), DirectShow (multimedia playback, like MPEG or MP3), and so on. That's why it was called DirectX. The X stood for all the other words. It was meant as an all-encompassing set of APIs for game development for Windows. Nowadays, all those APIs are obsolete. Except for Direct3D, which is why it has become synonymous with DirectX.
Plug and Pray! :D
Yeah, supporting those brings back nightmares. Hardware support was a well paying profession then :lol:. Everything "just works" now.
Lol
You legend! Thanks for the phone backgrounds. They are AWESOME.
It's my birthday
Hello Windows 95. I use my IBM laptop that has you on it nearly every other day. I think you were one of the best operating systems.
@@PC-Gamer-000 Thanks
Hi Windows 95. I still use my(unknown brand) pc with you on it every day.. You are one from the best operating systems... :) :)
@@moonlover5544 Thanks!
I need you, so I can play the first game in the software pack that appears in this video.
Thanks for the reminder of the 25th Anniversary. This was and is my favorite gaming system and computer. Yeah, I understand the speed and video quality of today's machines are off the charts, but if I was stuck on a deserted island and could only have one system it would be the Win95. Still have my original Win 3.1 & Win 95 systems. One of my machines has both and with a "Buttons for Dos" program I can jump between 3.1, 95 and Dos all on the same computer. Tons of games for this system, not to mention all the cool screensavers. Love the Dos only side and then going back into 3.1, or 95. That Gateway 2000 is really sweet. Thanks for sharing this great machine. Who can forget the "cow" boxes???
i love the johnny castaway screensaver
YAS
lol
EposVox gooooood
Oh my God. Your footage of Interstate '76 brought back so many memories of playing a demo of it on my childhood PC. I never knew what the game was, but had extremely vivid memories of it and you just brought back so many of those feels from then. Thank you for showing that game!
Windows 95 is truly nostalgic for me. Thanks for this!
Gateway, IBM were super expensive here in Sweden. Top-notch high end systems, so most of us either built their own or bought what Americans call boutique built systems which were faaar cheaper than prebuilts like these.
"Choosing what features you want"
Windows 10: not on my watch! enjoy all the crap you never wanted nor can uninstall!
Wish Microsoft would at least release a Win95 theme (sort of the since-removed classic theme) on Win10. But oh well, Windows 7 was the last standing soldier of customisation :'(
I had such a bad user experience with Windows 10 it's the OS that drove me to be a Manjaro MATE user on all my main machines with with Chromium OS, and Mac OSX Catalina(recently scored a free 13in mid-2012 Macbook Pro in decent shape) on the side.
Its sad to think that one day like xp everyone will just drop win 7 and we will have to be forced to use windows 10
I wish microsoft lost the lawsuit
The Microsoft of 1995 is ABSOLUTELY GONE. There is no connection between MS of 1995 and today. That is true of up to the 2000s. Microsoft is not even an American company any more. The software sucks, it's slow, it's completely un-intuitive . All of the good developers at MS were outsourced to Bindis who bring in their entire village on visas. They are completely incompetent and completely corrupt. It's a fiefdom.
It is one of the major reasons why silicone valley innovation has almost entirely stopped. It is why so much stuff doesn't work anymore.
First thing I do on install windows 10 is to run a powershell script that removes ALL the apps. The next is to turn off a shitton of services. Then set the updates to be delayed for 30 days so I can do then WHEN I fuking want to, (after I install all the other things I do want). Windows 10 is fine after you tweak the LIVING FUK out of it. Except for the really stupid double control panel thing. Yeah 2 different main control panels depending on what you want to tweak. OMFG who thought that up should be SHOT.
@tarstarkusz You realize that people complained that nothing worked back in the Win95 days, too? And they were right. Things were far worse. Software crashed CONSTANTLY. You probably had to reinstall drivers a few times a year. Stuff would happen, and you'd have no way to troubleshoot it. Win95 was an unstable mess in many ways. WinNT was far better, but had terrible driver support and only ran business software.
In 1995 it was a FAR BIGGER DEAL to be able to not install components you wouldn't use because space was expensive. My first HDD for Windows 95 was 1 gigabyte, and adding a second would have cost a TON (and not all software could install on or use data from a second HDD, too). The 2gb that the extra Windows components take these days is literally nothing in comparison.
Good old Windows 95. I remember not liking the interface at first since it was so radically different from Win 3.11, but it quickly grew on me. Now I can't imagine Windows or any other OS without a start button or task bar. I have so many fond memories of PC building, and playing those old games. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I tapped the like button as soon as I saw your shelf of OSes / operating environments in their original boxes at 0:00 though I felt the position of Windows 98 was just a tad out of place. Nice collection!
I tapped the like button as soon as I saw your mention of the original boxes being out of chronological order though I felt I had to scroll down way too far to find this. Nice catch!
What a great nostalgic show! This is the computer I got for college. It was amazing in its day. That EV900 was the envy of my friends and that startup sound was always so loud because my speakers were up from playing Half-Life.
Excellent video. I have a Windows 95 computer and it gets used. With all its niggles and foibles, it was the progenitor of some great operating systems such as 98SE, XP and 7, which I have on various computers. It deserves to be celebrated. The simplicity of the early systems is so refreshingly easy when compared to the mind boggling maze of Windows 10. Three cheers for Windows 95! 🎈🎉
Croc was a game with endless fun time spent. Underrated.
Win95 was a legendary transition
That blue background alone was intriguing enough.
It ran well on i486/SX
The interstate 76 has a very heavy dose of nostalgia...thanks for this video!!
This brings back so many memories. Thank you! :)
Thank you so much for putting this video together, nostalgia levels are off the charts!! :D
Really well done, great production quality, I hope you can produce one more, showcasing the MS office suite and other production software. I know, not as fun to watch, but interesting and a trip down memory lane nonetheless. And you can still use i.e. MS Word from Office97 for all your Word Documents' needs!! That's mind boggling...
Congrats on the anniversary. I still remember installing it for the first time(s) in the mid 1990's. I even remember watching the Edie Brickell "Good Times" music video included on the install CD. It takes me back to those younger days 25 years ago. Of course I was still also using Windows 3.1 & MS-DOS then at the same time (I still do today on occasion).
thanks a lot bro, I've been searching for this music video for 10 years! I didn't remember the title and now I've finally found it thanks to your comment
I Love veeeeeeeeeeery much the old windows computer build! It's so charmy!🤩
The case itself is very nostalgic to me... Especially with that missing front panel cover. But my Win95 based Gateway 2000 model was about a year older, so had different internals.
My P5-200 Minitower was a Socket 7 MMX 200 MHz with 32MB of RAM. It had a weak S3 Trio videocard, but a real Soundblaster that was branded with the Gateway cowbox logo.
I still keep all of the essential parts, but unfortunately I threw out the case to save space, back when cases were not yet collectible...
While clearly different, I can see the family resemblance between this case+monitor and my family's. We have an older P5-166 desktop which shares the same curves and button shapes as this tower.
Im wainting for that for 2 years! since i meet this amazing channel!!! 🤩🤩🤩 i hope next year we can get the windows xp 20th anniversary
For the first time ever, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Windows 95!
Also for the last time ever.
@@Okurka. LOL
Nice video :) I have used windows 98 so much that windows 95 startup sound is so nostalgic to me. I had to watch that part of the video a few time over.
The phone backgrounds are lit, thanks a lot mate :D
I increased the volume just to listen that legendary startup sound
Same intro as the Windows 98 video - consistancy!
Keep up the good work!
I've used my Boston speakers from my original Gateway computer on every computer I've had since '98. Still working!
That monitor is the jewel of the system. 19 inches at that time was probably at least half the total cost.
This is fantastic, I feel like I'm going back to a simpler time
HBD Win 95, can't believe it has been 25 years. The first brand new computer we owned I remember was a Olivetti Pentium 75. It came with Win 3.11 but had what I think was free or almost free mail in order for a Win 95 upgrade CD.
8:00 Great choice of game! SHODAN is pleased.
What a throwback! I had that same model back in the day. My first computer. Oh the memories and hours trying to get drivers to work. While hoping and praying I would not boot to the dreaded blue screen of death. Kids today have it so easy. Time to go soak my feet in Epsom salt.
lol, yes I remember the drivers for Win95 were a nightmare. They got better for Win98, but then Win98 still had its own stability issues. I'd retired the hardware by the time I switched to Win2K, skipped WinME completely. No wait I had already switched to an o'c celeron build in that GW case by Win98SE. Heh, it came with a 4GB HDD, yet today we have 1TB, mSD cards the size of my pinky nail.
Thanks for reminding me about Rollcage! It was a childhood favorite of mine! 💞
Happy birthday Windows 95!
You turned 25!
August 24th 1995 - August 24th 2020
Windows 95 died 19 years ago.
@@Okurka. If I were poetic, I would say that it never died because there are still people who keep breathing life into it.
Thanks!
Nice video! I think your channel is great and I really like it 👍 Thank you for your great work👋👾
I fixed hundreds of those back in the day, literally hundreds.
Looks Awesome Honestly I Love The Charming of Classic PC Games before Steam
Clearly the previous owner took meticulous care of not only the computer, but the software they bought for it, I'm surprise they kept the boxes for those lovely games. Oh how I love 90s PC games.
Consider that back then, that computer cost over $2000 in 1997-98 dollars, so yeah, the more something cost, the more it's an investment you take care of. Plus it was build with quality materials. Quality from a construction standpoint, not tech. The tech was middling, about what you'd expect but a high quality 440LX intel branded/OEM motherboard.
I grew up on this PC and still have it set up as my go-to machine for games from the era. I remember that Riva card being comically bad when I tried to play Half-Life on it (thankfully was able to upgrade to a Voodoo3) but I actually really liked the sound from that Ensoniq card, especially with the Boston speakers that the system came with. Monitor was awesome too. Worth noting, if yours is like mine then there's supposed to be a plastic shroud over the CPU that connects to the intake fan on the PSU. No idea if it's actually necessary to keep it cool but I noticed it's missing in this one.
For the first sec I thought this was a LGR video haha ! Amazing video as allways
Which brings us to Clint NOT having done an anniversary video. Uhmmm. Not nice.
The WIlliams sound library is so good! And used so well in so many games!
10:38 CROC - Druaga1 runs and hides.
I wish I could live again in the late 90s. Windows 95 was the first OS I have used and PC for me - the kid at that time - was like another dimension.
I have this windows 95 when I was 6 years old
Of course, I was a kid and don't know too much about windows tech
But now I'm 20 and I'm here to see this one again
Thank you Tech Tangents to bring it back to my childhood
Windows 95 was great not just because it was a revolutionary OS but also because it introduced us to the fantastic world of digital video and audio which back then was in its infancy, I remember being impressed by watching the demo video "Edie Brickell - Good Times" on the Windows 95 CD. Most people didn't consider PC as a video/audio machine because they still weren't aware of its real capabilities
Thanks for the banners Shelby!! :D
I spent so many hours with the Interstate '76 demo back in those days...
YOUR ACCOUNT IS 12 FUCKING YEARS OLD
4:58 with THAT GAME, that disc binder is MUCH MORE than a software pack. It’s legendary.
11:32 Dungeon Keeper 2, my vote for the best game of all time.
Those phone backgrounds are fantastic, thanks!
love the nostalgia this brings
Oh man, that Startup tune. Nostalgia turned up to 11. Windows 95 was great, having the Rolling Stones on the advertisements is something that sticks with me. Start me up, indeed.
MYST... ah the memories. I thought it was quite amazing when I bought it new back in the day...and it was.
It's an awesome game.
Happy 25th Anniversary!
So you didn't forget it.
Impressive, both the build and you.
Also, if we manage to survive 2020, then Windows XP will have its own 20th anniversary on August 24th roughly 1 year later.
10/10 Played startup sound and everything
Thank you for being around
This Windows 95 machine had better specs than my Compaq Presario from 1999 with Win98 on it.
Nice to watch, it definitely gave me flashbacks.
A gateway PC I remember I wanted one of those so bad when I was a kid. Parents got me a Packard Bell instead as my first PC. I loved it. Playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, The Sims, Redline so many fond memories.
Wow just had a huge nostalgia hit over a funny thing.. that under-monitor power strip platform. We had that same one on our first family computer and it got transferred to many subsequent ones over the years
The wallpapers go perfect with my custom win95 startup ringtone and my tada text tone
I had the same CD-RW drive back in the day :)
This brought back a few good memories. I still have my original boxed Win 95 (has CD). Had to get it out to have a look, box is a bit squashed but the insides look just as new. I notice with my version that even though it came with a install CD, it also came with sheets of official Microsoft floppy disk labels. Looking closer I notice there are 33 floppy disk stickers in all. I never used them hence they are untouched and still on their backing sheet. I am therefore assuming that my version of Win 95 has the option to generate the floppy disks also, how cool is that :)
As for version, I am assuming its one of the very first run of official releases because the label on top of the box says 050-052-950A 07-09-95. Still has the price sticker on the box £69.33. I was running Win 3.1 at the time and wanted to upgrade. I spent all my money on the win 95 upgrade that I couldn't afford to buy any games so for months and months I just played what games there were on Win 95..ahhh those were the days :)
That's awesome! Would you be interested in selling it or no?
“You were expected to handle file management yourself.”
*deep breath* Lord please let me go back.
I had this exact system, except probably bought a few months earlier so came with a lower MHz P2 CPU. Kept the case, modded the intake and cut out two 80mm rear exhaust fan mounts and two front fans for more airflow, and reused the case over 3 more rebuilds. The rear PSU hole can be enlarged and screw holes added to fit a standard ATX PSU.
I'm not into nostalgia of returning old equipment to use, but once the case had the 4 fans added and the bottom of the bezel opened up for more intake airflow, it was fine, nice and quiet with the fans at low RPM. A very sturdy case too, that I eventually added a front USB port pair to, not with a bay module but instead cutting a square hole in the plastic bezel and epoxying it in. Looked very professional like it came that way.
I no longer use that case but still have it. Probably due to be recycled along with several other items that are technologically obsolete.
I miss the keyboard. It was very durable, great key action, not quite an IBM model M but very long lasting, with key markings molded in, so they don't wear off. It outlasted any other keyboard I've had since, mainly replaced it because I wanted one in black and cordless.
You shipped a 19" in a full flight case? Kudos to you donator, kudos.
I seriously love this channel
Wow man, so cool it's nostalgic and the possible monitor screen resolution of 720x540p
Win95 was revolutionary for Microsoft. But everything from multi-tasking to plug n play had been done with the Amiga. Amiga's had a 32-bit "auto-config" Zorro bus with the A3000 in 1990.
The Amiga was superior to the PC for many years
Amiga used an obsolete 68k processor which didn't support multitasking and memory management, unlike i386 and its successors. It was a toy computer.
I have such fond memories of those early windows OS's. W95. 98 and ofc Xp.
I have no idea why I'm watching this but damn this really took me back.
Oh man, this system was surprisingly nostalgic. Our family's 300 megahertz Pentium II had one of those HP Cd writers as well, I remember that blue eject button vividly.
There is something so satisfying about having a complete OEM system - with matching monitor, KB & mouse, speakers, etc.
Hey, while I’m at it, if you have media kits for any OEM systems (desktop or laptop!) please take a moment to upload it on Internet Archive. These software bundles are getting harder to find...
The old days when monitors could easily weigh upwards of 50 pounds...
It's part of why rent to own was successful, since they brought it home and set it up for ya.
Not that expensive for a state of the art monitor for the time, honestly
Was just reminded of this when I just moved my two Packard Bell 15" CRT monitors into my new apartment over the weekend.... After watching this video I think I'm going to power up both the 486 and Pentium computers
I have a gateway monitor being shipped to me right now and the total package is 60lbs. Fingers crossed this person took this much care because it's going from California to Ohio lol Last CRT I had shipped to me works great, but the way it was packaged is hilarious. 5 layered boxes with a crap ton of news paper and packing peanuts in between each box. It was a 14" PVM but the package was almost 3 times the size and was covered in duct tape lol Took me 10 to 15 minutes to unpackage the thing. I think I'd rather have a shipping crate with a ton of padding like in the video lmao
I had forgotten about Monster Truck Madness! Very nice 👌
Next time, I want Windows XP 20th anniversary bulid(in 2021), I will waiting for it. :)
High pitch whine :/ love this video thought!!! Great job
Thanks for the backgrounds!
Interstate 76! I loved that game when i was a kid
The full soundtrack is available for download from interstate76 dot com. Great stuff.
I've got a Gateway 2000 P5-166 complete system, love them!
I think I had this same system in my family as a kid, or at least one from the same era as I still have that book of CDs, and we had those speakers you were lacking kicking around into the XP era.
would you be willing to release isos for the recovery disks somewhere? i have a g6-333 too but none of the original stuff that goes with it
It would be so appreciated if you made a build guide for retro Windows 98/95 PCs. What to look for parts-wise, things to know for assembly and configuration, what modern parts can functionally substitute for original if needed?
I had a system in that case (but possibly not this exact system) and it had those Boston Acoustics speakers with it, and they were great! I was still using them up until about 2 years ago when they finally gave up the ghost.
Fun Fact: Much like other Windows 9x family oses (Windows 98 and ME), Windows 95 still has DOS on its core, meaning that they still can play even the very first pc games
Those were grand times back then. So many things were still new in the PC world.
1337 run time, sir your subtle trolling is appreciated.
It says 13:38 for me.
Happy 25th Anv.
95 is the sweet spot between "modern" and older dos. But 98 startup makes the sweetest sound ;D
That previous owner had some REALLY good taste in games.
This video and all the boxed software is making me hook up my Packard Bell Pentium to play around!!! :D
Takes me back to my secondary school years, Windows 95 was the newest os we had in our school at the time, this was going back to the year 1997 early 1998. Laugh is windows 95 stayed with us to we left school in 2002, when windows 2000 was just starting to come about, So it was around for a good while. I found it more smoother than windows 98, and do i dare say a little more stable too.
win98 se was much better, and stable than win95. Also in general, better compatibility. But some hardware could run better on win 95, maybe it was your case.
@@warrax111 could have been the hardware it was on at the time.
Can't wait for Windows XP's 20th Anniversary build this year :)
Thx a lot. It's an amazing work.
For the first time ever.
Thanks for the Backgrounds!!
What are those blue card stands at 1:38? I am sure they have been re-purposed from another use?
Man those game bringing some fond memories back
Win95 Love at first sight :D
i remember at school in Norway it was win95 and i played doom sharware that was hidden on the computer :D
and also often chekked for new render/photos of lara croft XD
over time FlightSim95, MonsterTruck Madness and Need for speed love for tho`s too :D
Awsome Video :D
What I remember most about that series of DOS-based Windows systems (95, 98, and Millenium) was how unreliable they were. I had to set up a dual-boot system. Windows NT (which was rock-solid) for the serious work stuff, and Win 9X for gaming (because most games wouldn't work on NT since it prevented direct hardware access and other developer sins that were commonplace back in those days).
By the way: DirectX (9:33) wasn't just 3D graphics. There was Direct3D (which was the 3d graphics), DirectMusic (a high-level software synthesizer), DirectSound (low-level sound), DirectInput (Joystick and stuff), DirectPlay (networking/multiplayer), DirectShow (multimedia playback, like MPEG or MP3), and so on. That's why it was called DirectX. The X stood for all the other words. It was meant as an all-encompassing set of APIs for game development for Windows. Nowadays, all those APIs are obsolete. Except for Direct3D, which is why it has become synonymous with DirectX.
Now let's Wait for Windows 2000 20th Anniversary Build i guess.
Windows 2000 was release 20.5 years ago.
@@Okurka. Yikes, then Windows ME 20th Anniversary Build?