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Believe it or not, my win95 copy came with both 3.5 floppy disks and a cd. my computer that time had a cdrom but I tried to install it with floppy disks, and fa

Believe it or not, my win95 copy came with both 3.5 floppy disks and a cd. my computer that time had a cdrom but I tried to install it with floppy disks, and failed miserably around the thirties or something. At that time there was a joke why MS named it win95 not something else.

bluedino 6y ago
Are you sure you aren’t thinking about Office? The last version came on 55 floppies https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archive/cc767941(v=technet.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archiv...
- acomjean 6y ago
  Can confirm the OS did as well (win 95). It was a hard install on my notebook which lacked a cd drive. So many floppies.
  - lozf 6y ago
    Same here, floppies and failures! I ended up taking the notebook (a Dell Latitude with 810MB of hard disk) to a friends where we managed to install from a network mounted CD via the parallel port IIRC.
- simonblack 6y ago
  I bought a version of Novell Unixware back in the early 1990s that had even more floppies, 63 of 'em, IIRC. I tried to short-circuit that long-winded installation by putting the last 50 or so on to a QIC tape-cassette. Most of the time that worked, sometimes it didn't.
- silly-silly 6y ago
  It definitely came packaged this way in Australia. I can confirm OP's story.
- treeman79 6y ago
  https://www.ebay.com/itm/1995-Microsoft-Windows-Upgrade-for-Users-of-Windows-/393019333321?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292 https://www.ebay.com/itm/1995-Microsoft-Windows-Upgrade-for-... I have not so great memories of constantly reinstalling windows via floppy. Swapping disks getS old quick
retrac 6y ago
If it was a retail copy of W95 with both the 3.5" disks and a CD-ROM, it also included a little receipt you could mail in to Microsoft so you could swap your 3.5" disks for 1.2 MB 5.25" ones. Just in case you were insane enough to try and install it on a machine only with 5.25" drives.
- ineedasername 6y ago
  And people with 8" floppy drives were just out of luck.

bluedino 6y ago

Are you sure you aren’t thinking about Office? The last version came on 55 floppies https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archive/cc767941(v=technet.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archiv...

acomjean 6y ago
Can confirm the OS did as well (win 95). It was a hard install on my notebook which lacked a cd drive. So many floppies.
- lozf 6y ago
  Same here, floppies and failures! I ended up taking the notebook (a Dell Latitude with 810MB of hard disk) to a friends where we managed to install from a network mounted CD via the parallel port IIRC.
simonblack 6y ago
I bought a version of Novell Unixware back in the early 1990s that had even more floppies, 63 of 'em, IIRC. I tried to short-circuit that long-winded installation by putting the last 50 or so on to a QIC tape-cassette. Most of the time that worked, sometimes it didn't.
silly-silly 6y ago
It definitely came packaged this way in Australia. I can confirm OP's story.
treeman79 6y ago
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1995-Microsoft-Windows-Upgrade-for-Users-of-Windows-/393019333321?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292 https://www.ebay.com/itm/1995-Microsoft-Windows-Upgrade-for-... I have not so great memories of constantly reinstalling windows via floppy. Swapping disks getS old quick

retrac 6y ago

If it was a retail copy of W95 with both the 3.5" disks and a CD-ROM, it also included a little receipt you could mail in to Microsoft so you could swap your 3.5" disks for 1.2 MB 5.25" ones. Just in case you were insane enough to try and install it on a machine only with 5.25" drives.

ineedasername 6y ago
And people with 8" floppy drives were just out of luck.