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  1. August 2nd, 2004, 11:10 AM #1
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    Windows 95 saves the day?

    Well we had a flap this afternoon, a company director who absolutely insists on remaining in the sneaker technology of the past saves all his important work on a floppy, which yep you've guess it.... XP says this disk needs to be formatted.

    Does he have a backup? No.....

    So we try various recovery methods, scandisk, defrag (which it wouldn't do, learnt something new today...), running a backup of it, dos mode etc etc.

    On the shelf is a Toshiba 230cx laptop running Windows 95, has 32 MB of RAM in the machine and Office 97...... I wonder.... fired up the laptop, which I have to say booted quicker than anything I've seen running XP.... threw in the floppy, opened explorer and it reads the floppy.

    Edit, Copy and Paste to harddrive, all files working and correct. Put in a new floppy and copied them off onto XP machine and then put them onto CD for the director chappy who is so happy I swear he was gonna kiss me....

    So moral of the story? We should never have bitched about Windows 95.... XP - faster and more reliable? My ar$e!
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  2. August 2nd, 2004, 11:20 AM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by corturbra
    On the shelf is a Toshiba 230cx laptop running Windows 95, has 32 MB of RAM in the machine and Office 97...... I wonder.... fired up the laptop, which I have to say booted quicker than anything I've seen running XP

    So moral of the story? We should never have bitched about Windows 95.... XP - faster and more reliable? My ar$e!
    Hey, Windows 3.1 booted pretty fast, too. Remember?
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  3. August 2nd, 2004, 11:22 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by TripleRLtd
    Hey, Windows 3.1 booted pretty fast, too. Remember?
    Blow me.... can I remember that far back?!?!??
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  4. August 19th, 2004, 05:08 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by TripleRLtd
    Hey, Windows 3.1 booted pretty fast, too. Remember?
    speaking of which, about a year ago someone purchased a brand new machine but didn't want to purchase a new version of windows, so I had to set it up with win3.11

    I don't think I've ever seen windows load that fast in my entire life...
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  5. August 19th, 2004, 05:36 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by arch0nmyc0n
    speaking of which, about a year ago someone purchased a brand new machine but didn't want to purchase a new version of windows, so I had to set it up with win3.11

    I don't think I've ever seen windows load that fast in my entire life...

    Yeah..if you want to see something move really fast, put one of those old win95 after dark screensavers on a p4 with 256 of ram
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  6. August 20th, 2004, 02:41 PM #6
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    Anyone remember the game "Bouncing Babies"? on the old monochrome 8mhz computers... I remember on my p233 it was lightning fast... I'd hate to see ow fast it'd be on the new stuff...
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  7. August 22nd, 2004, 07:16 PM #7
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    Which leads the question.....

    Why is anything after 95 really **** when it comes to floppies?
    I'm in charge and I say we blow it up
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  8. August 22nd, 2004, 10:04 PM #8
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    corturbra what version of Windows was the original floppy made?
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  9. August 23rd, 2004, 09:01 AM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by eboyjones
    corturbra what version of Windows was the original floppy made?
    2000 Professional.
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    Bouncing Babies download

    I've found this download site for old Bouncing Babies (PC version):
    Bouncing Babies download
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  11. September 28th, 2004, 01:07 PM #11
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    Well that settles it. I'm going to back to Windows 3.11 for workgroups.
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  12. September 28th, 2004, 04:02 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by nessinka
    I've found this download site for old Bouncing Babies (PC version):
    Bouncing Babies download
    LOL nice! hours of fun again!
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