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A gotek drive would be perfect for this. I got a clone on Aliexpress and loaded flashfloppy on it. You can then drop the 94 floppies on a usb and change them us

A gotek drive would be perfect for this. I got a clone on Aliexpress and loaded flashfloppy on it. You can then drop the 94 floppies on a usb and change them using the buttons on the device.

Aldipower 2y ago
Swapping the disks is part of the fun!
- jdswain 2y ago
  For some of us it brings back bad memories of sitting watching progress bars for hours and occasionally getting asked to feed another disk into the drive. Office was probably the worst for the number of floppies, but linux was even more, and you had the extra worry of if it would actually boot after the install, or if you got a setting wrong and had to start again. Soon after all that we got to use CD's, which made life a lot better.
  - MisterTea 2y ago
    > bad memories of sitting watching progress bars for hours Bad? Nah. I would use the words "exciting or "annoying" as it was annoying to wait but exciting as you were edging closer to playing with new software. HOWEVER: if the act of installing software over and over again all day long was your job, then you have my condolences :-)
  - EvanAnderson 2y ago
    The shop I worked for, back in the day, got some of the technicians parallel ZIP drives. It was a godsend to copy the Windows 95 CAB files to the hard disk drive from the ZIP drive and run the upgrade from there, versus feeding the machine floppies. If you were really luck you were working in a site w/ Novell Netware and you could just copy the CAB files down from the Netware server. >smile<
  - 486sx33 2y ago
    Probably spending 5 hours swapping diskettes and then finding out disk #48 was bad is like the worst feeling ever
johnklos 2y ago
I've installed Windows 98 via DMF images using a FlashFloppy flashed Gotek on an Amiga 3000 running PC-Task, in part just to see if I could. The Gotek made it worlds easier than if I had been using real floppy disks, I'm sure.
- snvzz 2y ago
  GreaseWeazle (by same author as FlashFloppy) would have made real floppies easy as well.

A gotek drive would be perfect for this. I got a clone on Aliexpress and loaded flashfloppy on it. You can then drop the 94 floppies on a usb and change them using the buttons on the device.

Aldipower 2y ago

Swapping the disks is part of the fun!

jdswain 2y ago
For some of us it brings back bad memories of sitting watching progress bars for hours and occasionally getting asked to feed another disk into the drive. Office was probably the worst for the number of floppies, but linux was even more, and you had the extra worry of if it would actually boot after the install, or if you got a setting wrong and had to start again. Soon after all that we got to use CD's, which made life a lot better.
- MisterTea 2y ago
  > bad memories of sitting watching progress bars for hours Bad? Nah. I would use the words "exciting or "annoying" as it was annoying to wait but exciting as you were edging closer to playing with new software. HOWEVER: if the act of installing software over and over again all day long was your job, then you have my condolences :-)
- EvanAnderson 2y ago
  The shop I worked for, back in the day, got some of the technicians parallel ZIP drives. It was a godsend to copy the Windows 95 CAB files to the hard disk drive from the ZIP drive and run the upgrade from there, versus feeding the machine floppies. If you were really luck you were working in a site w/ Novell Netware and you could just copy the CAB files down from the Netware server. >smile<
- 486sx33 2y ago
  Probably spending 5 hours swapping diskettes and then finding out disk #48 was bad is like the worst feeling ever

johnklos 2y ago

I've installed Windows 98 via DMF images using a FlashFloppy flashed Gotek on an Amiga 3000 running PC-Task, in part just to see if I could. The Gotek made it worlds easier than if I had been using real floppy disks, I'm sure.

snvzz 2y ago
GreaseWeazle (by same author as FlashFloppy) would have made real floppies easy as well.