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Windows installation diskettes.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...568#post201196
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...349#post215181
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...022#post214038
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...404#post150836
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...403#post192724
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!)
I still have Windows 3.11 (12) diskette set if anyone still needs them
my reaction to that offer :-)
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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
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.
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by bob47907
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by WmRMeyers
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Gee . . . My Cam Dr. program runs on DOS and 5.5" floppies. I hope to resurrect it soon. Can't remember the name of my first S-100 computer with CP/M OS and 4K ram. But I do remember buying my first 64K Godbout memory board! With that much memory and the Diablo, dual disk, 12" floppy, I thought I was set for life! :)
"DO NOT MAKE ILLEGAL COPIES"
Biggest joke ever back in those days. They aren't joking anymore, though.
I just last week purchased a $4,600.00 perpetual non expiring license for a cad program that comes with 1year automatic upgrade to the 2024 version it is for 2 work stations but here is the thing it says if I create an administrator's image at installation, I can transfer it to a new machine should I decide mine needs replacing if I don't create the image then the only way to transfer my program to a new machine is to pay another sum for the ability to download it to the new machine. Without the image there are certain source codes in my machine which will not copy to another machine, in older times I used to buy the program and it came in 2 or 3 CDs then it bloated to requiring 2 DVDs now the only way to get it is to download it since it had grown in size to the point it would take half a dozen DVDs or a rather large capacity thumb drive which they will no longer consider producing since it was too easy to just install on any machine anywhere any timeQuote:
Originally Posted by mlochala
