Windows 95 comes in 3 releases

A,B and C

A = No USB Support
B & C has USB Support

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Simon Anderson

-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ethan Matthews
Sent: 22 July 2001 11:39
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Adding USB

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 16:40:51 -0500, Byron Wolter <[log in to unmask]>
posted article <[log in to unmask]>, which
said:

> I installed a USB PCI card from Best Buy (think it was a LinkSys) and
had no
> problems.  You don't mention your operating system.  You need at least
> Windows 98 to use USB.  If you're using 95, don't count on it working.

I think USB works under Win95.  My old Packard Bell Multimedia E154
computer
shipped with Windows 95 installed and it had two USB ports on the back,
complete with USB settings in the BIOS.  This was right after Win95 came
out.  Windows 98 had not even been publicly announced at that point in
time.
I never had a need for USB so I don't know if they worked under Win95 or
not.  I don't see why they would include USB on a computer if it had no
way
of functioning, unless there was inside information at Packard Bell
about
USB coming in a future version of Windows.  I upgraded to Win98 and
hooked
up a Handspring device via USB and it worked just fine, but as I said, I
never tried it under Win95.  I had no use for it at that time.

Ethan

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