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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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