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		mr_toad on July 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 t... > But what newbies will bever know the heck of: dip switch settings for IRQ for modems. And dip switches to set hard drives to primary/secondary. Get that wrong and your machine didn’t boot.

corrigible on July 4, 2019 | [–]

And making sure ATM0(?) was sent so that the modem was quiet...

unionpivo on July 4, 2019 | [–]

those were jumpers :)

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