Please. You're talking to a man here who ripped his entire CD collection into iTunes ... and then backed his library up on 1.44 MB floppies.
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I have certain programs that were ripped from my father's 7.5" floppies. They have gone through 3.5" floppies, to CDs, to thumb drives.
The Data shall Remain.
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Not exactly Workbench 1.3 disk 1 is it?
Came here to post just that :D
And how many of them are scratched to death?
This was taken a few years back. They are all ona USB drive now.
I was thinking the album yes fragile. Check it out on on youtube. The song roundabout if nothing else.
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My PC didn't support boot from CD, so I had to use about 6 WinXP floppies just to load the necessary drives to install from the CD. Good times
I think we also had the Win 95 and 98 installallers somewhere although I learned how to do it when upgrading from 98 to ME
Well, I should have Magic User Interface CD for Amiga 3.1 in somewhere. Didn’t find it right now.
Real Gs had Windows XP Black Edition burned to a CD. This appears to be vanilla XP.
MF, i had the same, same disc, same key lmao
laughs in C64 BASIC
The fact I recognise that key.
(Also my husband agrees with me that looks eerily like my handwriting and is the kind of disk i used OP are you in Australia...)
I'm worried about a bunch of 3.5" floppies I have that I used to store a bunch of personal documents and journal writing from high school.
I haven't seen any of these documents for years because it's been a long time since I had a system with a floppy drive.
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I can remember installing Windows 95 with floppy disks, that was slow. XP was great because you could finally do minor things and it not require a reboot.
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Me: This, but Office 2000.
Leaked an installation key? Microsoft is gonna send a helicopter to raid you....
I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.
Windows 3.1 was only like 7 disks.
The giant pile of floppies was Windows 95, at more than 100. And the Windows 98 upgrade CD. would ask for a random one several times during a clean install, so we had those things for a while.
As for showing my actual age, when I was a kid my dad bought an Amstrad PC1512, a mostly DOS machine with two 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drive.
I memorised this key, mainly due to LAN parties, since someone would always have some issue that needed them to reinstall Wndows. To this day i can recite it in full at any time. Also my library card number from when i was 12 (in case i forgot my card at home).
I actually had a Windows 98 CD at one point. Copied/ pitated, of course. The keys that I had were kinda stolen from the IT department that I was working for, at the time.
Only kinda stolen. The company was required to have a ridiculous amount of OEM keys. There were only 200 people working at CR back then, that needed Windows 98 rather than Windows NT, and of course there were the 8 Linux/Unix guys that IT mostly ignored, except for their connection to the intranet.
IT could buy 100 keys, or 250 keys. There was no option to buy two groups of 100 keys back in 1998. So we had about 56 keys just laying around that a few of us in IT just kinda took. We also took a total of 300 Windows NT licences, but I kinda doubt that any of managed to even give away a license of WNT.
I recently cleaned out some boxes of random stuff I had in one of my wardrobes and found several discs like this, some with Ubuntu 5-8.04, random drivers and other fun stuff. Huge nostalgia trip going through them. I also found this CD my dad gave me when I was 20 and had just started smoking weed:
(the title is in Swedish and means "a chill disc")
Sadly lost him in December last year, RIP dad. I normally don't smoke anymore but I'm gonna get a small piece of hash and smoke it while playing this in memory of him.
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Even still have a copy of 98
Press play, FF, together. Count the gaps.