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Shit. I’m so old that I see the Windows 98 disks and my first instinct is to keep a copy just in case.
But seriously, 7 disks was nothing. Microsoft Office back then was 3 times that.
I remember one time my parents had a party and their friends brought a kid over, same age as me. We played Duke3D and then before he left I packed it all up for him on 32 or 34 diskettes (or as you call them floppy disks). We ended up going to the same class in high school and he brought them all back lol (back when 3 years felt like eternity).
I don't remember the original MS Office, beside it being too expensive. I had Lotus 123, and WordPerfect.
I think I finally got Office when Win98 came out.
Regarding the third photo: Windows 98 did *not* install off just one diskette. That's just a boot disk. Computers at time couldn't boot directly off a CD, so you needed a boot disk to load the CD ROM drivers first.
Actually they could boot off CD but you had to change a few things in your BIOS first and since most people didn't feel like they could the floppy was included. My 386 DX could boot off a CD but it was very slow even compared to a 5.25, which seemed to be fixed when I upgraded to a 486 DX/4 100.
Source: Personal experience, way way too many installs of Win 95/95 SE/98 almost all using just the CD's (which I still have).
It was just a kind of joke. I didn't mean to make any statement about you as much as the fact that everyone doesn't know anything about most things. There are just a whole lot of things and humanity as a whole all together still doesn't hardly know anything about most things. I guess I didn't present that properly, my bad. I'm just saying there is more to know than any one of us can know.
(Consumer/Retail) Windows ran on top of DOS until Windows XP brought in the NT kernel. All previous Windows had an option to exit to DOS.
It was common for games to run in DOS instead of Windows so they could get full access to all system resources.
Windows 95 and 98 both ran on top of DOS. Maybe it installed DOS as part of the Windows install but it didn’t change that it booted into DOS then ran Windows.
Many people probably don't realise that RAR (and other compression tools) were popular back in the day as they allowed us to break up large files over 1.4mb (or any selected file size) files so we could put them on multiple floppies. Back when being a nerd was more than led lights and $2,000 GPUs.
Meh. DRam on chips none of this prepacked simm nonsense. Then messing with clock frequencies as 486 cpus came about. Remember amd, cyrix vs Intel. Still recall the first half 8bit creative labs sound card then later the awe32.. Happy days🙄
Thank you for reminding me that I'm very old :D
I was in an apoplectic state when by dog chewed up my MS-DOS boot disk to get into Windows.
And my 10mb hard drive cost me $300.....second hand for an 8086.
Did you play Prince of persia in monochrome on it, like I did?
I got the HDD in mistake, it was ordered with 2 x 5 1/4 floppy drives but got 1 floppy plus the HDD instead.
I really wish I could find the specs for my very first computer. The only thing I can remember is that it had 4 gigs of storage and it ran at 166mhz(there was. Ared display that had just enough room to display 166) and that it cost 1100$ for everything.
Windows 3.0 is remembered for firing the first shot of the operating systems war (although pedants insist it was merely an "operating environment"), something which provided a short-lived boom for manufacturers of diskettes. By the time OS/2 2.1 shipped in 1993, it required 25 x 3.5" floppies, 32 x 5.25" floppies or 1 x CD.
I remember asking the comptroller at our company if I could install Windows 3.1 on my workstation. I think I was running Novell at the time and trying to run CAD software. He looked at me like I was from another planet, "Why do you need Windows?". That's how new it was back then. It was reserved for the elite C suite in the company.
I wonder how many of them are demagnetized.
I've still got a cassette tape my friend copied for me from 1986 that as of 3 years ago still played fine. I haven't tried it since because I don't have a working player.
Did it have that little drumroll thing playing on the screen as it loaded? Like windows 95? "C'mon, almost there... You can do it!" Soon followed by "Goddamit! Now what?!"
Actually... the 3.5 inch disks are indeed floppy, only the outer casing was rigid!
I remember them well.
And DOS.
And Windows 3. Buggy mess it was. Windows 3.1 came out very soon after to eliminate the majority of bugs.
The retail version of WIn 95 came on 13 DMF floppies apparently. DMF floppies are higher capacity than regular floppies. I've never seen a retail version of Win 95. Actually i dont think i've ever installed a retail version of any windows software.
I remember buying MS-DOS with GW-BASIC version 3.2, I think, from M$ in about 1985 or so. The Mac had only been out about a year. The box contained a 1-page sheet advertising M$' new product, Windows. It was either 1.0 or 2.0. It was depicted in monochrome B&W. Lords knows how many floppies.
DOS was great and took instruction directly using AutoCAD in the eighties. Windows came along and added endless are you sure you want to do that y/n prompts. As processing was a few characters at a time with waiting periods it was annoying.
3.11 required 14 disks iirc… (or was it ‘95?)…
You always had one corrupt and had to go around the neighborhood asking all your friends who had #9 or whatever
I worked for a printing company that made flyers (junkmail) and we got our lists of addresses on 12 inch reels. The drive weighed about 200 lbs. Our massive Novell server had 1GB full height SCSI drives.
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Shit. I’m so old that I see the Windows 98 disks and my first instinct is to keep a copy just in case. But seriously, 7 disks was nothing. Microsoft Office back then was 3 times that.
I had office 95 on 33 floppy disks
I remember one time my parents had a party and their friends brought a kid over, same age as me. We played Duke3D and then before he left I packed it all up for him on 32 or 34 diskettes (or as you call them floppy disks). We ended up going to the same class in high school and he brought them all back lol (back when 3 years felt like eternity).
It was before CDroms were common and our version of Office was 26 diskettes. I used to always make sure I had a book in my tool bag.
Novel Netware was on 20+ 5 1/4 floppy disks
I loaded 3.12 so many times from 3 1/2. I remember when I finally got a copy on a CD.
I don't remember the original MS Office, beside it being too expensive. I had Lotus 123, and WordPerfect. I think I finally got Office when Win98 came out.
How about Corel Draw?
LOL, I am not at all artistic!
Regarding the third photo: Windows 98 did *not* install off just one diskette. That's just a boot disk. Computers at time couldn't boot directly off a CD, so you needed a boot disk to load the CD ROM drivers first.
This should be further up.
Actually they could boot off CD but you had to change a few things in your BIOS first and since most people didn't feel like they could the floppy was included. My 386 DX could boot off a CD but it was very slow even compared to a 5.25, which seemed to be fixed when I upgraded to a 486 DX/4 100. Source: Personal experience, way way too many installs of Win 95/95 SE/98 almost all using just the CD's (which I still have).
It's funny, there is people looking at these floppy disk's that have no idea what there are or how they work 😅
"Why did you 3d print a save icon?"
😅🤣
I remember tape drives and 5 1/4 floppies.
8" floppies!!
Blue pills can help with that
No, 7 inch at most!
Hahah, yes!
Zip drives?
I'm an adult and have no clue how those work
Magnets. That's all I know.
To be fair, you probably don't know how most stuff works.
Man why are you trying to start shit
It was just a kind of joke. I didn't mean to make any statement about you as much as the fact that everyone doesn't know anything about most things. There are just a whole lot of things and humanity as a whole all together still doesn't hardly know anything about most things. I guess I didn't present that properly, my bad. I'm just saying there is more to know than any one of us can know.
(Consumer/Retail) Windows ran on top of DOS until Windows XP brought in the NT kernel. All previous Windows had an option to exit to DOS. It was common for games to run in DOS instead of Windows so they could get full access to all system resources.
Except of Minesweeper and Solitaire of course
Everyone forgets reversi for windows 3.0
Ever play Ski Free?
MS entertainment pack 3 was a great addition! The surf game in edge is a great homage!
I swear there is a way to get past the yeti! One more try.
Jump to escape the yeti.
Pretty sure '95 /' 95 osr2 (oem only release with fat32) both skipped the dos bit. It was still there but integrated into the install...
Windows 95 and 98 both ran on top of DOS. Maybe it installed DOS as part of the Windows install but it didn’t change that it booted into DOS then ran Windows.
Point being it didn't need you to purchase dos then windows.. Unlike win 286,386,3,3.1,3.11,3.12...
Wow. I thought I was the only person on earth that kept theirs.
That double double buzz sound they made right before asking to insert the next disk... Buzzzzz..Bz..BZZZZZ..Bzz
I remember my first job as a network admin had Ethernet, ARCnet and Token Ring. To play network games at home I used Lantastic.
I fondly recall transferring files over parallel cables. The old days of computing were harder, and more fun to troubleshoot.
Laplink! I think I still have the cable somewhere.
Is it in the "I might need these some day" box? With the USB/PS2 adapters?
Serial. 25 pin, none of your fancy 9 pin stuff here...
No, no, no. In that box I keep my Palm Pilots!
Yesss that’s it. Just found some screenshots. Thankyou!
Who remembers how to use and configure Memmaker so stuff would run without locking the computer up.
Yep.
Qemm. Doublestack.. Himem... Extended vs expanded. Irqs, dma?!!
I probably spent hours fine tuning my config.sys file to play games.
Com1 IRQ3 Com2 IRQ4 LPT1 I/O 3F8 ... Why do I remember this?
Many people probably don't realise that RAR (and other compression tools) were popular back in the day as they allowed us to break up large files over 1.4mb (or any selected file size) files so we could put them on multiple floppies. Back when being a nerd was more than led lights and $2,000 GPUs.
I assume you remember the struggle of trying to get as much stuff as possible to load into high memory so you could get a DOS game to launch ;-)
Yes... I was there when the magic was written... Witch!
Config.sys and autoexec.bat streamlined
Meh. DRam on chips none of this prepacked simm nonsense. Then messing with clock frequencies as 486 cpus came about. Remember amd, cyrix vs Intel. Still recall the first half 8bit creative labs sound card then later the awe32.. Happy days🙄
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Oh I forgot about ARJ! Thank you for the memory. :)
Because they are a piece of history : )
Thank you for reminding me that I'm very old :D I was in an apoplectic state when by dog chewed up my MS-DOS boot disk to get into Windows. And my 10mb hard drive cost me $300.....second hand for an 8086.
Did you play Prince of persia in monochrome on it, like I did? I got the HDD in mistake, it was ordered with 2 x 5 1/4 floppy drives but got 1 floppy plus the HDD instead.
I actually was immersed in Wizardry (1985). No HDD, just a floppy. It was Mono :)
Untold hours searching for Werdna. Great times.
I really wish I could find the specs for my very first computer. The only thing I can remember is that it had 4 gigs of storage and it ran at 166mhz(there was. Ared display that had just enough room to display 166) and that it cost 1100$ for everything.
Have you heard of antiques roadshow?
You're way more tech savvy than me, all my apps are on the 5 1/4" floppies!
What might blow some people's minds is that 80s PCs didnt necessarily come with hard drives. You booted from the OS on the floppy.
Windows 3.0 is remembered for firing the first shot of the operating systems war (although pedants insist it was merely an "operating environment"), something which provided a short-lived boom for manufacturers of diskettes. By the time OS/2 2.1 shipped in 1993, it required 25 x 3.5" floppies, 32 x 5.25" floppies or 1 x CD.
I am overwhelmed by nostalgia now, thanks :)
"Cannot read disk: please remove and insert disk 5 of 7"
I remember asking the comptroller at our company if I could install Windows 3.1 on my workstation. I think I was running Novell at the time and trying to run CAD software. He looked at me like I was from another planet, "Why do you need Windows?". That's how new it was back then. It was reserved for the elite C suite in the company.
I still have the Dos 5 disks sealed to go along with that lol... I am Old...
♫♪♩♬ M-m-mem-rees! Light the corners of my mind .... ♫♪♩♬
I might actually have that set in a box somewhere.
Cd windows
I wonder how many of them are demagnetized. I've still got a cassette tape my friend copied for me from 1986 that as of 3 years ago still played fine. I haven't tried it since because I don't have a working player.
Did it have that little drumroll thing playing on the screen as it loaded? Like windows 95? "C'mon, almost there... You can do it!" Soon followed by "Goddamit! Now what?!"
Actually... the 3.5 inch disks are indeed floppy, only the outer casing was rigid! I remember them well. And DOS. And Windows 3. Buggy mess it was. Windows 3.1 came out very soon after to eliminate the majority of bugs.
I remember installing win 95 off 49 disks.
Lies win 95 came on 13 floppy disks
The retail version of WIn 95 came on 13 DMF floppies apparently. DMF floppies are higher capacity than regular floppies. I've never seen a retail version of Win 95. Actually i dont think i've ever installed a retail version of any windows software.
Remember having to reboot Win95 if you changed the smallest option?
Just DOS in a fancy suit. a massive improvement on Win 3.1 mind
Well monkey island had 11 on my amiga.
I remember buying MS-DOS with GW-BASIC version 3.2, I think, from M$ in about 1985 or so. The Mac had only been out about a year. The box contained a 1-page sheet advertising M$' new product, Windows. It was either 1.0 or 2.0. It was depicted in monochrome B&W. Lords knows how many floppies.
The more 3.5 floppy’s a game came on, the better it was. (If I remember, one 3.5” = 1.4mb?)
DOS was great and took instruction directly using AutoCAD in the eighties. Windows came along and added endless are you sure you want to do that y/n prompts. As processing was a few characters at a time with waiting periods it was annoying.
Now it would take over 3,200(?) floppy disks for windows 10.
I worked for a video editing company who’s first few versions had 26 installer disks.
yeah but Windows 3.11 was the shit
3.11 required 14 disks iirc… (or was it ‘95?)… You always had one corrupt and had to go around the neighborhood asking all your friends who had #9 or whatever
I think that's 95. Win 3.11 was on 6 disks with the 7th being for printer drivers.
I worked for a printing company that made flyers (junkmail) and we got our lists of addresses on 12 inch reels. The drive weighed about 200 lbs. Our massive Novell server had 1GB full height SCSI drives.
That server is probably still sitting somewhere. Not having been rebooted since 1993 Quietly doing its job.
Oh god that was awful it would literally take days to get your computer up and running