Windows 95 Plus! on a Compaq CDS 524 Vintage All-in-One System

My 1995 Compaq Presario CDS 524 All-In-One computer starting up with a fresh install of Windows 95 and the Windows 95 Plus! upgrade. This computer has a 486 DX2 66 MHz processor (pre-Pentium). It has a 420 MB Hard Disk and 40 MB of RAM. It sports a 3.5 inch floppy drive and a CD ROM drive. The built in modem is a 14.4 bps Data/Fax model. It was a revolutionary system that had the monitor, computer, and speakers all in one unit - just plug in your keyboard, mouse and power cord and your ready to go (just like the old Mac Classic computers). It was originally released in 1995 at a price of $1,849. I've had it for about 10 years and have run DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Red Hat Linux on it.

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Science & Technology

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• Windows
• 95
• Plus
• 486
• Compaq
• 1995
• computer
• Plus!
• vintage

[vinayakmehra91]

i want to ask something

if it has 420mb hdd then how can it run an os which is greater than 420mb like win 95 and 98

[pierangler]

@vinayakmehra91

Windows 95 only requires a minimum of 50 to 55 mb of hard drive space. Windows 98 requires about 260 mb of space. I have installed Windows 95 onto computers with as small as a 40 mb hard drive by using the DOS Drive Space double space disk compression utility. This utility can allow a hard drive to double the disk space available. I have Windows 95 on a set of floppy disks that is use of computers without cdrom drives.

[pierangler]

This computer can run lots of DOS software and old 16 bit Windows programs. I have DOOM I running great on it.

[JoaquimAlmighty]

can it run Crysis?

[JesusManson323]

I love that old cranking sound. Good memories there.

[bacovia2004]

@pierangler Tried 98?Please try and tell me the results please!!

[polarkreis201]

Omg, how i hated it to wait till the message came to tell me to turn this computer finally off... i didn't do that, in Win95 i just pressed the fucking offbutton and the compaq handled it just fine till i selled this :( fail :'((

[lury2009]

Strangly enough, my windows 7 system boots in pretty much the same time as

this 486 with windows 95, thank you for letting me wait mr. Gates!

[JoleenDog]

0:30 Beep Beep!

[BLASR24]

95 was the shit

[jworthington10]

Do not think this sucks,Windows 95 is cool

[funandthegamemaster]

@pierangler Can you make a copy of those floppies please?

I have lost mine and all I can find on the internet is boot disks. If you need my email pm me.

[kbhasikevin]

@cyndie26 it was part of the plus "more windows" theme. normally its "tada"

[RicowOTC]

That was my first PC as well back in 95. Same specs except that mine was running on windows 3.1 and had only 8MB of RAM (upgraded to 12MB in the late 90's).

16 years later here i am watching this from a 2011 Compaq/HP Atom-based All-in-One. And you know what? I'd much rather having those good and old built-in speakers and that weird yet comfy little mouse back!

Too bad it passed away in 2003 and i couldn't find a replacement for that proprietary "blade-slot" motherboard design. R.I.P, CDS524!