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Ah the memories... WinImage, rawrite and other floppy tools are an integral part of my youth. I learned so much by not having an internet connection and trying
by gattilorenz 8y ago
Ah the memories... WinImage, rawrite and other floppy tools are an integral part of my youth. I learned so much by not having an internet connection and trying to squeeze different version of Windows (2 and 3) or Linux into bootable disks, just for fun. DMF formatting was one of the best tricks (together with ramdrives where to extract compressed files).
I hate floppy disks with a passion (ugh, installing OS/2 was a pain), but I also miss them.
- vasili111 8y agoI remember 5.25 Floppy Disks and when I got 1.44 I thought it had so much space :)
- Bluecobra 8y agoI wish I knew about this back then. I had a PC with no Internet connection as well (paranoid parents). My school had a T1 for Internet in the late 90’s and I remember schlepping back and forth piles of disks and using file splitting programs to save a large file across multiple floppies.
- berbec 8y agoThe way to show you Big D*ck Energy back in the day was the best boot disk. Fitting the most useful programs you could cram onto a single floppy. When we figured out 1.7MB formats, every tech had to go back to the drawing board.
- tracker1 8y agoI remember once rigging a system to boot from floppy, enough to load a zip drive, and had the rest of the OS etc on that zip drive. Had to jump through some hoops to get it all working. Also recall installing AutoCAD 12 on 22 lab PCs from floppy... that was the opposite of fun.