Happy Windows 95 day!

acb121 wrote: »

I forgot;

I knew him, cos I used to go there a lot. I phoned him the next afternoon to say thanks for the tip off. He said, come back, we have loads of stuff, they still had PDAs, laser printers, Disc burners (and these were about £400 at the time), external hard drives, and lots of other good stuff.

The thing was, before that, I had seen on the news people going mad rushing into shops to buy previous Windows and I had thought " nerds ", queing at midnight for a new version of windows.

Of course, then it clicked, the queue in Tokyo, Sydney, New York, Berlin, was full of people like me on the promise of a free laptop. Not even that, there was maybe 20 genuine customers, and then 30 stooges rolling up from the pub who all knew the PR girls in some way.

So of course, when it was on the news, I saw myself. When the new Windows was announced, I did ask around if they were having the official London midnight laucnch again, but I guess it was somewhere else ....