that startup sound is awesome. i actually had windows 95 on a computer my grandpa gave to me, and two years later my mom threw it out cause it is "a peice of junk." but to me, that was my favorite computer.
And to think that I EMULATE windows 95 on Virtual box (PC is slow,shocked it runs at all) this is a neat PC,thanks for showing this...if only Microsoft made a windows 95 phone...
@efertheredfish It was from a Marriot hotel back in the 90s, and he said nothing came with when he got, just the monitor and computer, no cables as well, so I had to get the cables myself.
have the same one :-) Best pc... Celeron, 366mhz, riva tnt2 (overclocked hard :-D ) and quantum fireball 3gb and later some 80gb drive. :-) The sound of that pc brings back good memories...
@IamFat32 Cool, my monitor died though, it shut off and a nasty smell started to come out it, but I have it, and plan to fix it when I can, since the monitor actually matches with the Vectra.
@silverperzon Ah. What type of games do you play? We're talking about just DOS games right? BTW Looking back at that drive that you weren't sure of I think that a few hospitals still use those to store data on. I've seen a few of drives like that in some of the machines I see at the hospital I work at.
It is awesome. Cool, its sad that she threw it away, old computers (old computers running windows 95) were built like tanks, unlike the flimsy, and cheaply made computers that we have today.
cracks me up that 60% of the video is just getting the thing to load! haha! Just got the same thing out of a dumpster the other day.....using for old games and stuff....cool
@silverperzon yes there is one for sure, I looked when it died but its not worth replacing the capacitors because its 12 years old now. I'll just put in another power supply when I get one the right size. I wouldn't scrap this computer because it has a 1GhZ AMD Athlon in it. And I have original recovery CDs for it.
@IamFat32 Sorry but I can't, this wallpaper came with the pc, and since I upgraded the operating system on this pc, I'm afraid I don't have it anymore. I tried looking as well, and no luck.
great computer you have,i have one of that computer, it buy 12 years ago,and never been broken,just right now i am using it in this comment, but i have a question , how much can update it ,actually this has windows xp profecional ,384mb ram,two hard drives one of this of 10 g and another of 4 g,pentium celeron 300mhz slot 1,would can update the processor?
those screens are CRT which stands for Cathode Ray Tubing they have those flickers until TFT replaced them the flicker lines are caused by the tube inside the screen
s to go away on the if you want the linescreen when you are filming, go into desktop properties, then to adapter settings, and then to monitor, then set it to 75Hz. your camera is filming around 60Hz for it's refresh rate, and your monitor's refresh rate is also 60Hz.
@TheDataZoo Cool, do you have a video of it? This Vectra has 192MBs of RAM, Intel Celeron, 75.3GB HDD, 8MB video card, Windows 2000 Pro, dvd rom drive and 366mhz
no, youtube does not run on that version of internet explorer or on any others that run on windows 95, you could get firefox which works but you need flash
great computer you have,i have one of that computer, it buy 12 years ago,and never been broken,just right now i am using it in this comment, but i have a question , how much can update it ,actually this has 384mb ram,two hard drives one of this of 10 g and another of 4 g,pentium celeron 300mhz slot 1,would can update the processor
@silverperzon Ok. I found a Microsoft SideWinder ,but you need to have a AC plug for it as well. LOL. That sounds like a rather nice joy pad. I hope i'm lucky to find one somewhere soon.
@Unicornguy joy pad, I lucky enough to find one at a yardsale, these things are extremely hard to find in my area. It looks like a Sega Genesis controller, those that connect to the sound card.
I checked out that site and for Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, for the screenshots, they actually show the desktop and the icons and dialog boxes what they looked like, but for Windows ME, the only screenshots the site shows for ME is the blue screens of death, lol. XP however I don't think is quite obsolete enough to qualify as abandonware and therefore you won't find XP or later on that site.
@silverperzon lol, it's 3 months later and I found it! I found a bunch of OEM Stuff from HP and IBM Thinkpads and such. But now my HP has a dead power supply and I don't have a good replacment.
@silverperzon Yeah. They're relatively light machines. Agreed. I used my Vectra with Windows ME up until the end of 2006/early 2007 when I got my Windows Vista machine. I switched back and forth until I got another laptop to use because Vista was so unreliable.
Or this computer would probably do best with Windows Me. Just like my 2009 dell precision m6400, I tried on it Windows 10, then Vista, then Windows 7 and I figured that Windows 7 seems to be the best fit for my laptop even though Dell provides drivers for my laptop for all the way back to XP.
First off, this video was made awhile back, before I hardly had any knowledge about computers. Second, Don't tell me how to make videos, and lastly, use proper language and grammar. Also, this particular machine was made in Jan 1999 not 1989. I appreciate your feedback though.
@Unicornguy ah no not exactly lol, I play the old sonic the hedgehog games, original super mario bros and Legend of Zelda on this pc, and oh that sounds cool.
You were right it does look like brand does it have USB ports? because every single computer that came out in 98 had USB ports! and WOW That is one loud fartin HDD but she's kinda a Slow but not bad for a free machine and there could be reasons to why its slow 64MB of RAM Wold probably do it and all virus programs tend to slow computers down I don't have a Virus program on any of my PC's My computer right click (Local Disk C:) then drive properties shows you how much space is used and free
