Musically, I always tend to think of the '80s as being my era -- that's when my teens were and so my early faves were. I underrate '90s music -- it was a great period with many fine bands. Unlike, say, the 201x and for the most part the 200x periods...
All the Win95 tunes were great -- Weezer, "Just like Buddy Holly", Edie Brickell, even "Start it up". :¬D
IKWYM, though I was listening to radio in the 70s and I don't remember a huge amount of 70s music - they played a lot of earlier (50s/60s) stuff, as I recall. Maybe pop really was crap in the 70s.
And when you think how many companies are still running W95 in one form or another, 20 years later, I guess the software must have had something going for it too. :-D
I didn't like '70s music much. I was a bit too young (& my family returned from Nigeria a bit too late) to get into punk until my Uni years, and not really much then.
'60s stuff -- glam rock etc. -- leaves me cold.
I like the definition of cultural decades that don't start until a few years in, e.g.
P.S. Is *anyone* still running Win95 for real work, except perhaps the occasional fossilised 486?
P.P.S. I want to resurrect my IBM ThinkPad Butterly 701C some time. The folding-keyboard one. It ran Win95 a treat and it worked really well -- suspend/resume, PCMCIA networking over Ethernet or Dialup, the works. 40MB of RAM, 7GB HD.
I tried Win98, because 95's max 4 IP addresses proved limiting. Slower, some glitches. WinNT4, but no power management, no plug&play. Win2K, no service packs, ran, remarkably. Not well, but it ran.
But Win95 worked best. Only limitation, you needed a FAT16 C: drive, as the BIOS reads and writes it directly to do hibernation/resume. So if you run NT or OS/2, you need to keep a FAT16 primary partition around; it can't handle FAT32, NTFS, HPFS or anything.
The volume controls directly twiddled pixels on the 640*480 LCD, AFAICT, as they can overlay crisply on any screen mode the OS happens to be displaying -- so you get a volume indicator etc. Weird, clever little machine, beyond its famous keyboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc
(From the album Picture Perfect, by Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians. I have a copy of it somewhere.)
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Musically, I always tend to think of the '80s as being my era -- that's when my teens were and so my early faves were. I underrate '90s music -- it was a great period with many fine bands. Unlike, say, the 201x and for the most part the 200x periods...
All the Win95 tunes were great -- Weezer, "Just like Buddy Holly", Edie Brickell, even "Start it up". :¬D
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And when you think how many companies are still running W95 in one form or another, 20 years later, I guess the software must have had something going for it too. :-D
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'60s stuff -- glam rock etc. -- leaves me cold.
I like the definition of cultural decades that don't start until a few years in, e.g.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/history/1860122-how-long-would-you-say-each.html
or
https://www.reddit.com/r/popculture/comments/2lmwj7/in_your_opinion_when_did_the_cultural_decades_of/
If so, yes, 1980s was my time, but I liked much of the 1990s music... and the noughties and since have been notably poor. But then, I'm old now.
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P.P.S. I want to resurrect my IBM ThinkPad Butterly 701C some time. The folding-keyboard one. It ran Win95 a treat and it worked really well -- suspend/resume, PCMCIA networking over Ethernet or Dialup, the works. 40MB of RAM, 7GB HD.
I tried Win98, because 95's max 4 IP addresses proved limiting. Slower, some glitches. WinNT4, but no power management, no plug&play. Win2K, no service packs, ran, remarkably. Not well, but it ran.
But Win95 worked best. Only limitation, you needed a FAT16 C: drive, as the BIOS reads and writes it directly to do hibernation/resume. So if you run NT or OS/2, you need to keep a FAT16 primary partition around; it can't handle FAT32, NTFS, HPFS or anything.
The volume controls directly twiddled pixels on the 640*480 LCD, AFAICT, as they can overlay crisply on any screen mode the OS happens to be displaying -- so you get a volume indicator etc. Weird, clever little machine, beyond its famous keyboard.
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I think you mean 4MB of RAM. (-: Although Thinkwiki says if it's the 75MHz model it'll take 8MB. I wonder if it'd take an SSD? :-D
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No, I do mean 40MB. Forty meg. I think it has 8MB on the motherboard and a 32MB SO-DIMM.
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Apologies for brain fade....
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