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The Packard Bell computer we know today was founded by Beny Alagem in 1986 and is a computer manufacturer for end-users.

To this day, Windows 95 has remained my favorite Old School OS.

Also, this will hopefully be the first of an article series known as Retroputing, where we will take a look at vintage computing.

It all started sometime around the summer of 1995 when my aunt introduced me to her Gateway 2000 running MS-DOS 6.22 Windows for Workgroups 3.11.

There was something extremely moving about this thing called a computer.

Was it a machine that would eat me alive (I seriously did think that).

At age 5, I was just shocked at how amazing this computer thing was.

That screenshot, by the way, was taken on my copy of the DOSBox emulator, a multi-platform DOS emulator I have on my Windows 7 computer.

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My aunt and I played various computer games such as Sierras Mixed Up Mother Goose, Freddi Fish, and a Microsoft game known as SkiFree where a monster would randomly eat you as you ski down a mountain.

Look at those graphics World of Warcraft, eat your heart out.

In the fall of 1995, shortly after I started kindergarten, my dad decided it was time we needed our own computer.

I remember him doing a lot of research on computers, since he had never owned one before.

In early December 1995, my dad finally found the perfect computer.

It was a little pricey, nearly 3,000, but he really liked this one.

I had just turned 6 and I desperately wanted to go with my dad to pick the computer up.

But I was bedridden with a stomach bug and was stuck in bed watching reruns of The Flintstones on Cartoon Network.

That evening, my dad returned home from Best Buy with tons of heavy boxes with the Packard Bell logo plastered all over them.

It was a Packard Bell Legend 822CDTW Multimedia Minitower Computer.

I vividly remember getting up out of bed every 10 minutes or so to watch my dad set the computer up.

The computer was all set up, ready to be turned on at any moment.

Little did I know how much of an affect this computer would have on my life.

The above picture is from a February 14, 1996 home video of my original Packard Bell.

Keep in mind that up until this point, the only OS I was familiar with was Windows 3.11 on my aunts Gateway 2000.

So when the desktop popped up, I was shocked at the completely revamped interface.

Whats a Start Menu and My Computer This was also the evening I was introduced to my friend.

So this is that new version of Windows known as Windows 95 Ive been hearing so much about It took some time for me to get used to the new interface, but pretty soon, I became a Windows 95 fan for life.