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Sealed Windows 2000 Advanced Server floppy disks (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember installing Windows 3.0. (Or possibly 3.1..?)

It came in exactly way too many disks. (Like, a dozen or so, maybe..? Though it felt like at least double that...)

Reversi was nice, though...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've still got my copy of Windows 3.1 on 3.5" 1.44 MB disks; there are seven in total.

Now, Windows 95, that was a monstrosity on floppy disks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I bought Windows 95 on floppy disks when it first came out. I think it was 13 disks.

Microsoft used a special format for these floppies, called Distribution Media Format (DMF). It allowed them to fit 1.68MB onto each disk instead of the standard 1.44MB. I just went looking for information about that and found a web page that has not been changed since 1997:

https://www.winimage.com/wimushlp/wini1a1y.htm