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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 02/10/2026

Does anyone know the brand and model of the mini tower Baby-AT case (the one on the right)? It was my first ever PC case and I never knew who made it...

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 27/09/2026

Yeah... this game really doesn't mess around... 😬

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 11/09/2026

En: Fuck USB and its designers Ro: bag pula-n USB și în designerii lui

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 09/09/2026

Two rare items: Windows 95c (OSR 2.5) and vanilla Windows 98 (first edition)... and, also, they're American discs; I don't mind not having their boxes, because the discs are what I'm interested in - the only way I can be sure to have clean discs is to have genuine discs.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 08/09/2026

All right, so this specific version is not actually able to install Windows at all, and it's only usable to install optional components when asked for a CD on an all ready working Windows system (I'm assuming only of the same operating system release); there's no setup.exe in the win95 directory.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 08/09/2026

It turns out some versions of Windows 95/98 out there were marked as "companion"; in the case of the one I now own, it seems to be part of a dual Windows-Office student bundle; any other possible cases?

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 08/09/2026

I dunno what's up with that crystallized coffee strain, but this is my first big box purchase; like I said, one never really forgets his first love.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 08/09/2026

After about 20 years... I finally have the genuine discs; this is the last version of Office which ever shipped without online activation bullshit.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 02/09/2026

Uhm... you know they technically still can, right? The computers which run the nuclear silos still run on these... and they better stay that way, not controlled by AI - because I know you wanna do it; don't do it, don't be THAT level of retarded.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 01/09/2026

For those of you who think this isn't enough, tell me... what the hell do you even do with a LAN speed higher than this - let's say 2.5-10 Gbps? 125 MB/s is 1 Gbps.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 01/09/2026

Now THAT is one big MS-DOS book! One never really forgets his first love...

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 19/08/2026

Check this out: this CD-ROM drive has a little brush on the tray, so every time it gets opened or closed it also cleans the lens a little bit.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 18/08/2026

Meanwhile, this one was missing from my collection. Ordered the last one.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 18/08/2026

In the 1990s, when Windows 95 came out on CD-ROM, the floppy disk erroneously said "insert your CD-ROM and press Enter"; the CD-ROM was never bootable, and the floppy disk never had any drivers for the CD-ROM; here's how it was actually meant to be installed (replies):

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 17/08/2026

In my defence, Microsoft Office for Windows 95 did things a little bit differently from its successor, MS Office 97; I got Office 97 at home some time later, and it didn't need frames added to objects in order to enable text wrapping anymore; this little thing haunted me ever since.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 15/08/2026

To my surprise, the base, minimum system, actually managed to install to, and boot from this dinosaur...

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 15/08/2026

First time in my life I ever try out NetBSD - because Linux wants to wipe out old hardware.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 10/08/2026

So apparently, it's abandonware now; I haven't heard this tune in more than 20 years either.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 01/08/2026

In a way, I'm kind of glad things turned out this way - 5.25" bay optical drives not being made anymore, and me turning a few good ones into external drives. They resemble the beginning of the whole era, separate external peripherals... I never got to experience that, but this is the closest thing.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 31/07/2026

I got an idea a while ago to make this, a... Rackception sorta thing, internal rack inside external exposure, so I do not have to open up my PC anymore even I need to transfer files, both on PATA and on SATA... And I was so happy I've done it!!! ... until the internal one turned out to be defective.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 27/07/2026

Found this in my archive of memories... this was me trying to be patriotic in 2010.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 26/07/2026

After the first boot it installs something, asking for Disk 5. So yes... Windows 95 OSR2 never had a floppy disk edition release... but that didn't stop me, or the people before me. 🤣

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 26/07/2026

I'll let you guess what I actually did here. This is Windows 95 B (OSR2). Yes, on floppy disks.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 22/07/2026

I will document the steps I followed to make this work, although it really isn't easy and intuitive at all. That is, if the resulted disks do work. Then I'll make am instructions and upload them to archive.org

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 21/07/2026

Here's how you recognize Win95A (OSR1): no "Microsoft Internet Explorer" on the vanilla loading animation - just pure "Windows 95".

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 21/07/2026

Completing what's effectively a Rite of Passage. I've seen this exact thing being done by my first mentor exactly 28 years ago. Now I finally get to do it myself.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 21/07/2026

Oh, no you don't! You won't write the current info to the setup disk forever, you sneak! Do not do what they say, it's a lie. Just click Continue, and it will work fine!

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 21/07/2026

Check this out... They printed the product key with a dot matrix printer!!!!!!

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 20/07/2026

Since for a few months I have been the proud owner of 128 GB of RAM for personal use... meet the alternate universe version of Zed - Z Shell, my new Protogen.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 18/07/2026

So... as it turns out, what this option does is make Program Manager start at boot, by placing a shortcut to it in the StartUp folder of the Start Menu. Perhaps Microsoft wanted people to slowly get used to the new interface, and then not need it? Who knows...

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 18/07/2026

And a feature I wasn't aware of: If you customize your Windows installation and make it automatically use your preconfigured CD-key, it will not show it in the System Properties window, like it would usually do.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 18/07/2026

Did you know that Windows 95A and Windows 95B (OSR2) still had an option in setup, so you could select the user interface to still be Program Manager (but with Win95 window controls). My guess is they did it for long time Windows users who didn't like having to get used to Explorer & the Start menu.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 10/07/2026

Here's my idea of how to not need to open up your PC when you need to prepare the hard drive of an old PC.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 01/06/2026

Of course I would find a fake ad for floppy disks. It wouldn't be me, if I didn't.

Two posters from inside the Wolfenstein's nazi-controlled universe, depicting ads for travel products and for floppy disks.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 04/05/2026

I honestly did not expect colored discs. The discs themselves are colored, not just their cases. Remember when floppy disks did this to be cool?

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 02/05/2026

No, no no, it's exactly how it is... you fucks. I'm not ever trusting a "doctor" for the rest of my life!

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 11/04/2026

I bet you'll never guess who my favorite character in the whole world is, lol.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 08/04/2026

Here's something you could never do with packet writing in a classic optical drive... Read the last line carefully! xD

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 08/04/2026

@zorinlynx.bsky.social Hello! I've seen your little video about the DVD-RAM format. I just got a drive, and one more is on its way, actually NOS. It's been a lifelong dream of mine, to own a drive (and use it). In the 90s and 2000 they were so rare, and I wanted one ever since I've read about it.

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🇷🇴 Z Shell (a.k.a. Zed Der Höllenhund) @zedfurry.me · 25/03/2026

Finally got a ready l replacement for one of those annoying Dallas chips...

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