I think part of the resistance is the fact that Windows as it was is largely still with us, at least in spirit, and that the first exposure people around my age had to it was in a work environment. So we don’t exactly have fond memories of playing with it. I know I didn’t have fun loading it from diskette for hours and trying to get real mode drivers to play nice. For us, early 8 and 16-bit micros were fun, PCs were (mostly) work. For us who like to tinker with hardware in the 90s, PCs started becoming more and more black boxes. That being said, thirty is indeed retro. And I believe many are nostalgic for it and would be interested, especially if introduced with a short history of computer GUI’s, Windows evolution and the challenges we faced configuring and running it in the days of ‘Plug and pray’ which would still involve a short side trip Into memory and IRQ conflicts. Care to volunteer? On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM Jeffrey Golas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Anyone else that would have been mildly interested in the Win95 talk? Its turning 30 this year in August, is that retro yet?
I know some have serious Winderz hate and thats ok, but I have fond memories waiting for it to boot on a 486 dx2 I got used and admiring the new graphics.
Jeff