Windows 95 Beta Release Retail Kit?

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Windows 95 Beta Release Retail Kit?

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Does anyone know what this is? I found this while browsing on eBay: http://m.ebay.com/itm/VERY-RARE-Windows ... Ciid%253A2

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Possible, that is a Windows 95 Beta 2 CD-ROM.
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A 224 CD?!
I wish I had that, a CD of a prototype, what you found was amazing.
Even if it is only on eBay

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It is possible, that this is a Build 224 of Windows 95 CD-ROM, because The BIOS Date Gas to set back to earlier than 1994 Oktober 29.
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LangsamSpieler wrote:It is possible, that this is a Build 224 of Windows 95 CD-ROM, because The BIOS Date Gas to set back to earlier than 1994 Oktober 29.
It is if you look closely it says 10-28-1994

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But it's just a Kit, than it is possible, that is only a Software for The Beta.
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So it is just pretty much supplemental tools, it doesn't have the actual build itself, I see

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I think there's a good chance this build is already on the FTP. I ran across a handful of discs that had similar labels a few years ago and BA had/has them all.

I think the disc contains a 95 beta, not just supporting tools and other materials. I think the word "kit" is used to indicate what /else/ the disc contains besides the beta.

All doubts can be resolved by contacting the seller.
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Well it's not hard to have a look inside the Beta OS\PC\Windows 95\224 folder and checking artwork.rar for all the releases that have it. I did that and this particular disc is not on the FTP. As to what exactly is not it is hard to say, we have simmilar discs that say SDK and International Versions instead of Retail kit.
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Overdoze wrote:Well it's not hard to have a look inside the Beta OS\PC\Windows 95\224 folder and checking artwork.rar for all the releases that have it. I did that and this particular disc is not on the FTP. As to what exactly is not it is hard to say, we have simmilar discs that say SDK and International Versions instead of Retail kit.
Well someone just bought it. Hopefully it was someone here who's willing to share it.

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Damian9303 wrote:
Overdoze wrote:Well it's not hard to have a look inside the Beta OS\PC\Windows 95\224 folder and checking artwork.rar for all the releases that have it. I did that and this particular disc is not on the FTP. As to what exactly is not it is hard to say, we have simmilar discs that say SDK and International Versions instead of Retail kit.
Well someone just bought it. Hopefully it was someone here who's willing to share it.
Or it ended up in the hands of one of the "beta trading" person you are searching for and you will never ever see a bit of it ;)

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tristanleboss wrote:
Damian9303 wrote:
Overdoze wrote:Well it's not hard to have a look inside the Beta OS\PC\Windows 95\224 folder and checking artwork.rar for all the releases that have it. I did that and this particular disc is not on the FTP. As to what exactly is not it is hard to say, we have simmilar discs that say SDK and International Versions instead of Retail kit.
Well someone just bought it. Hopefully it was someone here who's willing to share it.
Or it ended up in the hands of one of the "beta trading" person you are searching for and you will never ever see a bit of it ;)
Yeah who knows lol. I only guess they do that because you see these people online with unleaed builds and they look like they got nothing to do with Microsoft if you know what I mean

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I believe The the ebay listing is a Fake probably Just a blank disc or something. Be aware :)

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windowsawesome wrote:I believe The the ebay listing is a Fake probably Just a blank disc or something. Be aware :)
What makes you think so?
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Well since there are a lot of ebay scammers so...

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windowsawesome wrote:Well since there are a lot of ebay scammers so...
Of course,isn't ebay itself a scam?

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windowsawesome wrote:Well since there are a lot of ebay scammers so...
You shouldn't claim something is fake unless you have the evidence to back it up. I'm not even gonna bother debunking the flawless logic you just demonstrated.
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Overdoze wrote:
windowsawesome wrote:Well since there are a lot of ebay scammers so...
You shouldn't claim something is fake unless you have the evidence to back it up. I'm not even gonna bother debunking the flawless logic you just demonstrated.
Not to be rude to windowsawesome, but I'll do it for you, Overdoze:
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/composition-division

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windowsawesome wrote:I believe The the ebay listing is a Fake probably Just a blank disc or something. Be aware :)
If it was a fake, then whoever sold it is a master of forging Microsoft CD artwork. In other words, very unlikely.
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whistler2250 wrote:
windowsawesome wrote:I believe The the ebay listing is a Fake probably Just a blank disc or something. Be aware :)
If it was a fake, then whoever sold it is a master of forging Microsoft CD artwork. In other words, very unlikely.
Or could have put a random image found on the Internet, that's more likely. But still, we don't have any reason to believe why would this be fake.
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Do a reverse image search on the image in the eBay listing. If the image pops up anywhere that isn't eBay.com (or affiliated with eBay), then the listing is most likely fake.

Use http://tineye.com for image searches. (Google Images isn't as good.)

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I can assure you guys there is nothing wrong with the artwork. I have already seen artwork just like this a few years ago, and I can assure you guys this artwork is normal of this disc and should be expected.

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Hmmm.... interesting but i still Think is a fake Listing though.

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windowsawesome wrote:Hmmm.... interesting but i still Think is a fake Listing though.
And you still haven't provided any specific evidence to back your claim, aside from your pretty generic statement that there are fraud sellers on eBay (and on every other auction site I am 100% sure). This particular seller has got 5 star ratings on average from other users, so there is no reason to believe that this listing is fake. It wouldn't hurt to actually check the listing for more than 5 seconds before posting completely unbacked claims.
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Re: Windows 95 Beta Release Retail Kit?

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Well maybe but just look at the Product description A little weird...

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