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I got PTSD from installing Windows 95 from floppy and after 40 floppies getting read errors...
by brnt 2y ago
I got PTSD from installing Windows 95 from floppy and after 40 floppies getting read errors...
- beAbU 2y agoSomewhere in my parents' house there is a massive box with floppies for office 95 (or whatever it was called back then). Not 40 floppies massive, but still a large number. I think we managed to only ever install it once successfully without error. Also, fun semi-related fact: In my country we called 8" and 5.25" floppies "floppies", and the smaller 3.5" ones were called "stiffies" - because the larger ones were floppy, and the smaller were, well, stiffer. Do with this information as you please.
- exe34 2y agoi need to know which country this is, please!
- cyberpunk 2y agoCertainly not the UK where inserting your stiffie in to something has rather a different connotation….
- teschmitt 2y agoI'm going to wager South Africa based on this blog post: https://jasonelk.com/2015/12/who-knew-that-the-rest-of-the-world-didnt-call-the-old-3-5-inch-floppy-disks-stiffies/ https://jasonelk.com/2015/12/who-knew-that-the-rest-of-the-w...
- obrix 2y agoHappened also in Finland. It was "lerppu" (floppy) for the flexible ones and "korppu" (hard biscuit) for the hard ones.
- beAbU 2y agoSouth Africa!
- raesene9 2y agoMy first IT job involved installing a lot of Windows 95 from floppy disk. Luckily each PC I bought came with a set, so I'd build up some "good sets" over time after discarding all the disks that had read errors.
- yencabulator 2y agoThe first time I installed SLS Linux (pre-Slackware), it took some 25 1.44MB floppies and I owned ~20 empty ones. I left the installer running overnight and downloaded more floppies the next day at school. It took an extra day because some floppies had bad sectors, and had to be re-downloaded..