Thirty Years Ago Today...

So it appears that Windows 95 was launched thirty years ago today.  We remember it well, a big change from Win 3.1 and its variants.  

One of us was shown an early version at a show a few months before.  The conversation went something like:

'Look, this is the new beta test of Windows 95.'

'Great! Looks exciting.  What does you mean by "beta test"?'

'Well, it works fine unless you press the wrong thing at the wrong time.  Then it falls over.'

(We've used this defense for everything we've written ever since...)

The last PC running Win95 left this house last year.  We rather regret that now....

The BBC ran an article about Win95 on the National lunchtime news.  It spent some time with the NW Computer Museum.

Why didn't we know about this?