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Tell me what it means (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 44 points 2 years ago (15 children)

A stack of 15 floppy disks for one program. Please insert the next disk to continue (I can't remember the exact wording). Command prompt to A:\ and having to see what the install program might be called. Bring amazed that CDs could autorun programs.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Booting from a single floppy disk in A: and using the other floppy drive (B: of course) to store programs and files because there was no hard drive. And the floppy disks only stored something like 300 KB.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Please insert disk X/15 to continue

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fond Slackware memories.

    I lie, not fond memories, the 19th floppy was always illegible for some reason. I ended up dragging my box to the office to hook it up to the leased line (that's something else that's gone btw).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    You can still order and provision leased lines, some security companies use them as secondary heartbeat monitors.

    Also, this exact reason was why I always had 2 sealed copies of Win95 floppy insall in a desk drawer till CD drives were affordable.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Disk read error, please insert correct disk to continue.

    (at disk 12 of 25 lol)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) 
     FUCK THE UNIVERSE, AND THE MEMORIES YOU JUST DUSTED THE COBWEBS OFF OF!
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