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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=te
by bluedino 6y ago
Are you sure you aren’t thinking about Office? The last version came on 55 floppies
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- acomjean 6y agoCan 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 agoSame 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 agoI 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 agoIt definitely came packaged this way in Australia. I can confirm OP's story.
- treeman79 6y agohttps://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