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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I recently tried. Didn't work. Don't know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted.
CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.

    Spoken like a person who doesn't own a floppy drive. 😞

    Tap for spoilerI'm just making a silly joke, of course, but I think there's enough temporal overlap between floppy drives and USB ports that it's accurate.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Remember when BIOSes weren't able to boot from CD-ROM so you needed a boot disk? Or was that just a windows problem?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    The first computer I ever used was a Macintosh 128k. It didn't have an OS. The OS was on a floppy that you had to have in to start the system. My dad bought two external floppy drives so that he could run more complex programs on the thing.

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