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[โ€“] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was available on floppy. So was Win98.

[โ€“] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep I had 95 on floppy. It was like 30 disks. That installation was hell, you had to sit there and swap disks for several hours.

[โ€“] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When one of these is corrupted then it's all for nothing lol. I mean CD Rom was so ubiquitous here by 95, 98 that this idea seems silly but I guess it existed.

[โ€“] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 4 months ago

It was more for upgrading 386 computers from 1992-1994 if I remember right. Or maybe we had a 486. I dunno. It was definitely pre Pentium. Back in the dark ages!