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Re:It's a Tesla by SonicSoul on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:11PM (#11432860)

where was this line? I was around when 95 came out and don't remember that much excitement. Also in this case people are parting with a $1k for years just to save a place in line. Has that happened for any car before? that's what's unprecedented.

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Re:It's a Tesla by tsunamifury on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:33PM (#11433068)

Thats pretty standard in the upper-end of car purchasing, Ferrari, new models from BMW or Mercedes. All dealers hold waitlists -- its just likely you've never purchased a model that has one.

Also Windows had huge lines... the iconic photo: http://i.imgur.com/oc2EDhE.jpg?fb

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Re:It's a Tesla by mikeash on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @10:19PM (#11436140)

Ferrari production is single-digit thousands at most, they can't have anything like this sort of demand.

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Re:It's a Tesla by SonicSoul on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:48PM (#11433214)

wow. thanks for that. I must have blocked it out of my memory. and the comments on that photo are hilarious

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Re:It's a Tesla by rconti on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @03:11PM (#11433408)

It was fantastic. I was living just south of Redmond at the time. There was news coverage about it. Ballmer and Gates were driving around town in a Ballmer's Porsche blasting "start me up" (the theme for the Win95 launch), congratulating shoppers.

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Re:It's a Tesla by SonicSoul on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @08:52AM (#11438404)

haha! oh I wish there was footage of this.

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Re:It's a Tesla by apo on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:47PM (#11433209)

>where was this line?

There are some pictures of the lines here:

http://mashable.com/2015/08/24/windows-95-launch/

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