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After initially booting from disk 1 and following the prompts to format the disk, you’ll reach a prompt where it asks you to remove the install media and reboot. Note that it also says to only remove the media after the machine has reset before you eject- this is important otherwise the disk will not …
My first job out of college was with IBM as a contractor, working in the IBM Software Center, Basingstoke, providing technical support for OS/2 and Communications Manager/2. I ran OS/2 on my own PC at home for a few years after this, before moving to Windows 95. In the past few years I’ve installed various …
My attempt to install Windows 95 on Virtualbox on my Mac Pro didn’t turn out too well as by the time the installation completed it refused to boot with the error: “While initializing device IOS. Windows Protection Error” What on earth Windows 98 was doing back then initializing iOS devices is interesting, but beside the point …
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Looking through a stack of CDs and DVDs on the shelf on my desk, amongst many other things I still have install CDs for Windows 95 and Windows 98. I wondered (as you do, well, maybe not everyone does) what it would be like to install 95 again from scratch so created a new VM …
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