~ At least it can do black and white~
Which ones do you reckon are either important or worth getting?
None of them, the files are not on the way back machine. Just the pages they were on. 😵
On a side note. I found the original windows ME page
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815054607/htt … .com/WindowsMe/
btw was there any update for the standard windows 95 to transform it into compaq windows 95? would that even run on a standard machine?
I for one have no idea what "compaq windows 95" is. Googling around, I guess there was a time when Compaq was selling a version that didn't have IE on the desktop, but that doesn't sound like much of a change.
wrote:I for one have no idea what "compaq windows 95" is. Googling around, I guess there was a time when Compaq was selling a version that didn't have IE on the desktop, but that doesn't sound like much of a change.
I do know that even during the DOS age (funny to call it that btw), many OEMs used customized variants of the MS OSs and I know that either Compaq or HP used such versions and I'm pretty sure Dell used these too, though the latter perhaps a bit later, I'm not sure.
These might be locked to certain motherboards (perhaps by first checking for certain BIOS stuff?) and some were basically more image disks. I never bothered to collect these, even though I know I should have some weird 9x which came on 3 CDROMs, each with a medic/first aid cross (or whatever they are called) and each disk had a different color.
I do know that Fujitsu Siemens had a 'Windows XP backup disk' which was actually a full install disk, but wouldn't activate normally, but would auto-activate when using a FS motherboard (though I have also experimented with that feature at some point, though discussing this probably isn't very legal).
Yeah I have a dell copy of w2k, only installs on old dell systems.
Which Compaq you trying to install Win95 on? maybe a standard CD will still work?
Compaq's WinXP was nice. You were supposed to start with the system restore CD, which would also install all the prebuild crap.
Or you could boot off the OS CD and it would ask to insert the system restore CD, then ask for the OS CD and install as if it was a standard XP CD.
Of course you could just use a standard XP CD if you had one, but not everyone did!
