On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Brad H <vintagecompu...@bettercomputing.net> wrote:
> > > I would call Win 95 a high point also. I lived near Toronto at the time > and remember the unfurling of a huge Win 95 banner down one side. There > were events everywhere. MS was really at their zenith. The excitement > around that launch was like nothing since. I believe I got swept up and > installed it immediately but shortly after removed it. Couldn't get used > to the interface. Eventually for one reason or another I had to and did go > back to it. Wasn't the greatest or most stable OS and was kind of a half > breed at that, but man.. what I wouldn't give to feel the anticipation > again, the difference between it and DOS. Nothing released on either PC or > Mac has come close. > Brad > > I have a can of Sapporo beer with the Win 95 logo - not a sticker, part of the 'paint job' of the can! It's still full, too - I've never been a big a fan of Sapporo, it's obviously cooler as a 'complete' artifact, and by now that stuff in there must be incredibly funky.... -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."