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November 20th, 1985: Windows 1.0 is Released | The Vintage News (www.thevintagenews.com)
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[โ€“] ladicius@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

I remember installing windows from a stack of about 30 or more 3,5 inch diskettes. When ms office came out the stack was of similar height. Took about an hour of disk jockeying, and after that another 60 minutes (or more?) of installation.

One was very happy when that ordeal went without troubles ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, I made a custom version of Windows 3.11 that boots from a single floppy disk into RAM.

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