Windows 95 25th Anv. Gateway 2000 Rebuild

Windows 95 turns 25 today and I want to get it back on this Gateway 2000 that was shipped out with it!

I'm extremely grateful to the viewer who sent this system (and preferred to remain anonymous). I've had a lot of fun getting it back up and running and it is a really cool example of a complete system from this era.

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[blaknift]

You legend! Thanks for the phone backgrounds. They are AWESOME.

[spliceoncharlie]

Thanks for the reminder of the 25th Anniversary. This was and is my favorite gaming system and computer. Yeah, I understand the speed and video quality of today's machines are off the charts, but if I was stuck on a deserted island and could only have one system it would be the Win95. Still have my original Win 3.1 & Win 95 systems. One of my machines has both and with a "Buttons for Dos" program I can jump between 3.1, 95 and Dos all on the same computer. Tons of games for this system, not to mention all the cool screensavers. Love the Dos only side and then going back into 3.1, or 95. That Gateway 2000 is really sweet. Thanks for sharing this great machine. Who can forget the "cow" boxes???

[heyyitsultima]

Oh my God. Your footage of Interstate '76 brought back so many memories of playing a demo of it on my childhood PC. I never knew what the game was, but had extremely vivid memories of it and you just brought back so many of those feels from then. Thank you for showing that game!

[syclone]

"Choosing what features you want"
Windows 10: not on my watch! enjoy all the crap you never wanted nor can uninstall!

Wish Microsoft would at least release a Win95 theme (sort of the since-removed classic theme) on Win10. But oh well, Windows 7 was the last standing soldier of customisation :'(

[KomradeMikhail]

The case itself is very nostalgic to me... Especially with that missing front panel cover. But my Win95 based Gateway 2000 model was about a year older, so had different internals.

My P5-200 Minitower was a Socket 7 MMX 200 MHz with 32MB of RAM. It had a weak S3 Trio videocard, but a real Soundblaster that was branded with the Gateway cowbox logo.

I still keep all of the essential parts, but unfortunately I threw out the case to save space, back when cases were not yet collectible...

[thereallantesh]

Good old Windows 95. I remember not liking the interface at first since it was so radically different from Win 3.11, but it quickly grew on me. Now I can't imagine Windows or any other OS without a start button or task bar. I have so many fond memories of PC building, and playing those old games. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[perpetuummsioworldpentium]

For the first time ever, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Windows 95!

[AMills-oxch]

What a great nostalgic show! This is the computer I got for college. It was amazing in its day. That EV900 was the envy of my friends and that startup sound was always so loud because my speakers were up from playing Half-Life.

[khyypio]

Windows 95 is truly nostalgic for me. Thanks for this!

[Kaio]

Thank you so much for putting this video together, nostalgia levels are off the charts!! :D

Really well done, great production quality, I hope you can produce one more, showcasing the MS office suite and other production software. I know, not as fun to watch, but interesting and a trip down memory lane nonetheless. And you can still use i.e. MS Word from Office97 for all your Word Documents' needs!! That's mind boggling...

[O.Shawabkeh]

Croc was a game with endless fun time spent. Underrated.
Win95 was a legendary transition
That blue background alone was intriguing enough.
It ran well on i486/SX

[PaulinesPastimes]

Excellent video. I have a Windows 95 computer and it gets used. With all its niggles and foibles, it was the progenitor of some great operating systems such as 98SE, XP and 7, which I have on various computers. It deserves to be celebrated. The simplicity of the early systems is so refreshingly easy when compared to the mind boggling maze of Windows 10. Three cheers for Windows 95! 🎈🎉

[Lachlant]

Clearly the previous owner took meticulous care of not only the computer, but the software they bought for it, I'm surprise they kept the boxes for those lovely games. Oh how I love 90s PC games.

[GustavoSoares-vxne]

Im wainting for that for 2 years! since i meet this amazing channel!!! 🤩🤩🤩 i hope next year we can get the windows xp 20th anniversary

[thenextwave]

I Love much the old windows computer build! It's so charmy!🤩

[dodgem]

This brought back a few good memories. I still have my original boxed Win 95 (has CD). Had to get it out to have a look, box is a bit squashed but the insides look just as new. I notice with my version that even though it came with a install CD, it also came with sheets of official Microsoft floppy disk labels. Looking closer I notice there are 33 floppy disk stickers in all. I never used them hence they are untouched and still on their backing sheet. I am therefore assuming that my version of Win 95 has the option to generate the floppy disks also, how cool is that :)

As for version, I am assuming its one of the very first run of official releases because the label on top of the box says 050-052-950A 07-09-95. Still has the price sticker on the box £69.33. I was running Win 3.1 at the time and wanted to upgrade. I spent all my money on the win 95 upgrade that I couldn't afford to buy any games so for months and months I just played what games there were on Win 95..ahhh those were the days :)

[ka]

I grew up on this PC and still have it set up as my go-to machine for games from the era. I remember that Riva card being comically bad when I tried to play Half-Life on it (thankfully was able to upgrade to a Voodoo3) but I actually really liked the sound from that Ensoniq card, especially with the Boston speakers that the system came with. Monitor was awesome too. Worth noting, if yours is like mine then there's supposed to be a plastic shroud over the CPU that connects to the intake fan on the PSU. No idea if it's actually necessary to keep it cool but I noticed it's missing in this one.

[marvintpandroid]

I fixed hundreds of those back in the day, literally hundreds.

[DavidWonn]

I tapped the like button as soon as I saw your shelf of OSes / operating environments in their original boxes at 0:00 though I felt the position of Windows 98 was just a tad out of place. Nice collection!

[HAGSLAB]

This brings back so many memories. Thank you! :)