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re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95
Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 11:47 am
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Posted by Kiwi (2109 messages posted)


I have more versions of W98 on hand, true, but for what I might be doing with whichever of the oldies can be dragged somewhat closer to the present day, Win95 is much more suitable (and I do not use, nor want to use, IE, Outlook, etc.)

Keith Stanier wrote:
>Yes Jerry is right.
>
>I have Win95 B and C. The CD labels are
>
>B) W95_full_ar with a build date of 1 May 97
>
>C) Win95_OSR25 with a build date of 26 November 97
>
>The C has the IE4 setup.
>
>You would probably better of{"F"} going to Win98SE.

I already decided against Win98 for now, as per the quoted comment:


On Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at 10:01 pm, Kiwi wrote:
>I have had a couple of quite old (in PC terms, anyway) systems on hand for awhile
>that still worked when I put them in a corner of storage area. I just might have
>a use for one or the other of them (not really sure). One is a Dx4 486 / 100 MHz
>machine from the early ISA to PCI changeover period (Socket 3), and the other is
>a slightly later model, Socket 7, that has an AGP1 video bus.
>


>Both last used Win95 as their primary OS. One has a 540 MB Hdd and 72-pin SIMM memory.
> The other has an 850 MB Hdd and 168 pin DIMM memory, max 128 MBs each, "Low Density"
>RAM (I have a range of possible CPUs for that one, from 120 MHz on up to 350, from
>AMD, Cyrix, and Intel).
>


>I'm pretty sure that whichever one I go with, I will want a newer Hdd than what these
>two started with. The oldest requires an AT power supply, and so far, I haven't
>had it working in a newer, AT/ATX case I moved it into (switch problems). I only
>have one potential CPU option other than the Dx4, and that is a "586" K5 processor,
>which I believe is 133 MHz, about which I have no "OK - not OK" recollection any
>more. Whichever works reasonably well, I'll put a fresh Win95 install on it, I think.
>
>

.

Kiwi

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re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Keith Stanier: Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 4:31 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Kiwi: Sun, Dec 23, 2007, 8:15 am)
-re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (jack hall: Sun, Dec 23, 2007, 4:03 pm)
-re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Kiwi: Mon, Dec 24, 2007, 12:22 am)
-re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (jack hall: Mon, Dec 24, 2007, 5:46 pm)
-re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Benoit: Tue, Dec 25, 2007, 1:39 am)
-re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Kiwi: Tue, Dec 25, 2007, 10:01 pm)
-re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Keith Stanier: Thu, Dec 27, 2007, 4:31 am)
-re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Benoit: Thu, Dec 27, 2007, 5:17 am)
*re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Keith Stanier: Thu, Dec 27, 2007, 11:34 am)
-re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Alan Masterman: Fri, Dec 28, 2007, 2:41 am)
*re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Keith Stanier: Fri, Dec 28, 2007, 4:14 am)
*re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Kiwi: Thu, Dec 27, 2007, 11:47 am)
-re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Jerry: Sun, Dec 23, 2007, 7:41 pm)
-re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Benoit: Mon, Dec 24, 2007, 6:57 am)
*re: Identifying the OSR2 version of W95 (Jerry: Mon, Dec 24, 2007, 2:31 pm)
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