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Microsoft Windows 95: First Retail Release

Windows 95 was the successor to Windows 3.1 and included a number of important new features:

It was also first version of Windows that required an 80386 CPU (preferably a D-stepping or later).

Windows 95 was released to manufacturing on July 14, 1995 and went on sale at midnight on August 24, 1995.

It is shown running below, following a “Compact Installation” on a 68Mb hard disk. Before the machine can start, it must download the disk image, which may take a minute or two, depending on the speed of your internet connection.

More information about this Windows 95 demo is available in the PCjs Blog.

[PCjs Machine "deskpro386"]

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Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Boot)

 Volume in drive A is BOOT_DISK
 Directory of A:\

IO       SYS*   223148   7-11-95   9:50a
MSDOS    SYS*        4   7-11-95   9:50a
COMMAND  COM     92870   7-11-95   9:50a
AUTOEXEC BAT        25   7-11-95   9:50a
CONFIG   SYS        40   7-11-95   9:50a
COUNTRY  SYS     27094   7-11-95   9:50a
DISPLAY  SYS     17175   7-11-95   9:50a
EGA      CPI     58870   7-11-95   9:50a
EGA2     CPI     58870   7-11-95   9:50a
EGA3     CPI     48973   7-11-95   9:50a
FDISK    EXE     59128   7-11-95   9:50a
FORMAT   COM     40135   7-11-95   9:50a
HIMEM    SYS     32935   7-11-95   9:50a
KEYB     COM     19927   7-11-95   9:50a
KEYBOARD SYS     34566   7-11-95   9:50a
KEYBRD2  SYS     31942   7-11-95   9:50a
MODE     COM     29191   7-11-95   9:50a
OEMSETUP BIN      3270   7-11-95   9:50a
OEMSETUP EXE     78668   7-11-95   9:50a
       19 file(s)     856831 bytes
                      595968 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 01)

 Volume in drive A is DISK1
 Directory of A:\

MINI     CAB    441905   7-11-95   9:50a
PRECOPY1 CAB    484352   7-11-95   9:50a
WB16OFF  EXE       537   7-11-95   9:50a
SCANDISK EXE    134738   7-11-95   9:50a
DOSSETUP BIN     72246   7-11-95   9:50a
WINSETUP BIN    159504   7-11-95   9:50a
DELTEMP  COM       496   7-11-95   9:50a
SAVE32   COM       920   7-11-95   9:50a
EXTRACT  EXE     46656   7-11-95   9:50a
SCANPROG EXE      4438   7-11-95   9:50a
SETUP    EXE      5184   7-11-95   9:50a
SMARTDRV EXE     45145   7-11-95   9:50a
XMSMMGR  EXE     14144   7-11-95   9:50a
SCANDISK PIF       995   7-11-95   9:50a
README   TXT      7302   7-11-95   9:50a
SETUP    TXT     34612   7-11-95   9:50a
       16 file(s)    1453174 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 02)

 Volume in drive A is DISK2
 Directory of A:\

PRECOPY2 CAB   1042774   7-11-95   9:50a
WIN95_02 CAB    657408   7-11-95   9:50a
        2 file(s)    1700182 bytes
                       14336 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 03)

 Volume in drive A is DISK3
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_03 CAB   1716224   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)    1716224 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 04)

 Volume in drive A is DISK4
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_04 CAB   1716224   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)    1716224 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 05)

 Volume in drive A is DISK5
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_05 CAB   1716224   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)    1716224 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 06)

 Volume in drive A is DISK6
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_06 CAB   1716224   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)    1716224 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 07)

 Volume in drive A is DISK7
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_07 CAB   1716224   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)    1716224 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 08)

 Volume in drive A is DISK8
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_08 CAB   1716224   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)    1716224 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 09)

 Volume in drive A is DISK9
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_09 CAB   1716224   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)    1716224 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 10)

 Volume in drive A is DISK10
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_10 CAB   1716224   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)    1716224 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 11)

 Volume in drive A is DISK11
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_11 CAB   1716224   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)    1716224 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 12)

 Volume in drive A is DISK12
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_12 CAB   1716224   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)    1716224 bytes
                           0 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (RTM Disk 13)

 Volume in drive A is DISK13
 Directory of A:\

WIN95_13 CAB    981813   7-11-95   9:50a
        1 file(s)     981813 bytes
                      733184 bytes free

Directory of Windows 95 (Startup Disk)

 Volume in drive A has no label
 Directory of A:\

IO       SYS*   223148   7-11-95   9:50a
DRVSPACE BIN     71287   7-11-95   9:50a
COMMAND  COM     92870   7-11-95   9:50a
FORMAT   COM     40135   7-11-95   9:50a
SYS      COM     13239   7-11-95   9:50a
HIMEM    SYS     32935   7-11-95   9:50a
FDISK    EXE     59128   7-11-95   9:50a
ATTRIB   EXE     15252   7-11-95   9:50a
EDIT     COM     69886   7-11-95   9:50a
REGEDIT  EXE    120320   7-11-95   9:50a
SCANDISK EXE    134738   7-11-95   9:50a
SCANDISK INI      7270   7-11-95   9:50a
DEBUG    EXE     20522   7-11-95   9:50a
CHKDSK   EXE     27248   7-11-95   9:50a
UNINSTAL EXE     76496   7-11-95   9:50a
MSDOS    SYS*        9   1-19-18  10:37p
CONFIG   SYS        20   1-19-18  10:37p
EBD      SYS*        0   1-19-18  10:37p
       18 file(s)    1004503 bytes
                      448000 bytes free