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What do you mean, that’s like 27 disks!

by Redoubts 8y ago

the_duke 8y ago
Was Windows 95 really still distributed on floppy disks?
- extrapickles 8y ago
  Yes, I installed it that way. CD-Roms were not on all computers until after the game Myst came out.
- Redoubts 8y ago
  https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050819-10/?p=34513 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050819-10/?p=...
- deleted 8y ago
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- mikestew 8y ago
  Yup, I still distinctly remember installing it on my Toshiba Portege that way, because I don't know that external CD drives were even available yet. If they were, I couldn't afford one.
- MarekKnapek 8y ago
  Yes, English version was on 15 (or 13 specially formatted) 3½ discettes. Localized into my language was on 28 3½ discettes.
- watersb 8y ago
  Oh my yes. I signed up for a Microsoft Developer Network subscription, only $2000 per year, and they sent me just about every product they made, on CD-ROM. The Windows 95 CD ROM had a script that would write out the set of floppy disks. It was a long and tedious process, but to keep you entertained, you could watch the Weezer music video that sprawled across the unused hundreds of megabytes of the rest of the CD. If you had a workstation powerful enough to handle video. (I used those floppy disks to load up Windows 95 in a virtual machine on a Mac. Connectix Virtual PC, soon afterwards aquired by Microsoft. I started the boot process once it was installed, then I had to go to a meeting. Came back about 30 minutes later, just in time to see the boot process complete and display the Windows 95 desktop.)
- Endy 8y ago
  This is how I got Win95. In fact, if memory serves, even Win98 was available on floppy, and possibly WinME Upgrade as well. I'm pretty sure when we were forced from 9x FAT16 to NTFS + FAT32 was when they demanded CD-ROM drives.
watersb 8y ago
Art poster of contemporary software distributions as floppy-disk sets: http://www.antreposhop.com/product/3-5-inch-poster-set-4-posters http://www.antreposhop.com/product/3-5-inch-poster-set-4-pos...

What do you mean, that’s like 27 disks!

the_duke 8y ago

Was Windows 95 really still distributed on floppy disks?

extrapickles 8y ago
Yes, I installed it that way. CD-Roms were not on all computers until after the game Myst came out.
Redoubts 8y ago
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050819-10/?p=34513 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050819-10/?p=...
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mikestew 8y ago
Yup, I still distinctly remember installing it on my Toshiba Portege that way, because I don't know that external CD drives were even available yet. If they were, I couldn't afford one.
MarekKnapek 8y ago
Yes, English version was on 15 (or 13 specially formatted) 3½ discettes. Localized into my language was on 28 3½ discettes.
watersb 8y ago
Oh my yes. I signed up for a Microsoft Developer Network subscription, only $2000 per year, and they sent me just about every product they made, on CD-ROM. The Windows 95 CD ROM had a script that would write out the set of floppy disks. It was a long and tedious process, but to keep you entertained, you could watch the Weezer music video that sprawled across the unused hundreds of megabytes of the rest of the CD. If you had a workstation powerful enough to handle video. (I used those floppy disks to load up Windows 95 in a virtual machine on a Mac. Connectix Virtual PC, soon afterwards aquired by Microsoft. I started the boot process once it was installed, then I had to go to a meeting. Came back about 30 minutes later, just in time to see the boot process complete and display the Windows 95 desktop.)
Endy 8y ago
This is how I got Win95. In fact, if memory serves, even Win98 was available on floppy, and possibly WinME Upgrade as well. I'm pretty sure when we were forced from 9x FAT16 to NTFS + FAT32 was when they demanded CD-ROM drives.

watersb 8y ago

Art poster of contemporary software distributions as floppy-disk sets: http://www.antreposhop.com/product/3-5-inch-poster-set-4-posters http://www.antreposhop.com/product/3-5-inch-poster-set-4-pos...