Windows installation diskettes - photos

[Altair]

Windows installation diskettes.






Previously:

Floppy disk case - GIF
1956 IBM 5MB hard disk drive - photos
Installing 2 petabytes of storage - GIF
4.5 megabytes of data represented by punch cards - photo
Hard drive crushing machines - GIF

[bruce.desertrat]

Oh goody. Thanks for reviving the supressed memory of getting to disk 7 and getting a disk read error...(or Disk 14 oe 17 of MS Office Pro later before we finally got ahold of a CD ROM copy)

I do not miss those "Good ol' days" at all!

(or worse...I just googled it and Office Professional came on 55 floppies...told ya the memories were suppressed!)

[TrickieDickie]

I still have Windows 3.11 (12) diskette set if anyone still needs them

[bruce.desertrat]

my reaction to that offer :-)

[Frank S]

We hired a salesman to take over our West coast sales at a company I was part of. On day he pulls out a diskette and said I can store my entire brain on this diskette I looked at him and said then you must have a pretty small brain

[nova_robotics]

Windows 11 installer is about 5.2 GB. So that's about 3700 1.44 MB floppy disks. A floppy drive can do about 25 KB/s. So if it takes 10 seconds to change disks and you did it perfectly, it would take 70 continuous hours of disk swapping to install Windows 11 using floppy disks.

Old fart joke: What's the difference between a computer and a woman? A computer will accept a 3.5" floppy.

I hired a summer student last year and had to explain to him what the symbol on the "save" button was. University aged kids have never seen a floppy disk.

[bruce.desertrat]

Yeah we have a couple old relics in our office we show the student workers, like the (what we thought was unfathomably ginormous at the time) 10GB hard disk from our first Novell server back about '92 or so. It's a 5½" hard drive about 4 inches high weighs around 10 lbs. Dunno how many platters it has...or what interface it's got; predates IDE, it's not SCSI, may even be Shugart for all I know now. My phone has 12 times the storage.

[bob47907]

It’s likely an apocryphal anecdote, but I read that there was a bug in the Win95 code that would cause the machine to crash after 49 days. It was purportedly never observed because the OS wasn’t stable enough to run that long.

Good times.

[WmRMeyers]

It’s likely an apocryphal anecdote, but I read that there was a bug in the Win95 code that would cause the machine to crash after 49 days. It was purportedly never observed because the OS wasn’t stable enough to run that long.

Good times.

Pretty sure that was BS. I had a Win95 computer running constantly for over a year just to see if it could. Back in those days, I was a power user of Windows and MS-DOS. Pretty sure I still have the Windows 3.0 disks around here, somewhere. And pulled the dual TEAC (IIRC) 3.5/5.25 drive off the shelf this afternoon to get at other stuff I was looking through.

[nova_robotics]

Pretty sure that was BS. I had a Win95 computer running constantly for over a year just to see if it could. Back in those days, I was a power user of Windows and MS-DOS. Pretty sure I still have the Windows 3.0 disks around here, somewhere. And pulled the dual TEAC (IIRC) 3.5/5.25 drive off the shelf this afternoon to get at other stuff I was looking through.

It's real. GetTickCount() would overflow at 2^32 milliseconds. 49.7 days. Vtdapi.vxd would hang the machine. It was patched some time toward the end of Windows 98. You might not have had software using Vtdapi.vxd, or maybe you didn't have that installed.

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