this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024
29 points (100.0% liked)

Sysadmin

7706 readers
8 users here now

A community dedicated to the profession of IT Systems Administration

No generic Lemmy issue posts please! Posts about Lemmy belong in one of these communities:
!lemmy@lemmy.ml
!lemmyworld@lemmy.world
!lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
!support@lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world
00Lemming@lemmy.world
L3s@lemmy.world
29
November 20th, 1985: Windows 1.0 is Released | The Vintage News (www.thevintagenews.com)
submitted 2 days ago by lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

It's just a fad. It'll pass.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 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 πŸ˜…

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don’t know who downvoted you but that was absolutely how it was and woe if you had a damaged disk. I remember when it came out on CD how much of a night and day difference it was.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's how it was for Win 95. Windows 3.1 was like 5 720k floppies, one of which was DOS.

Edit: 6 floppies

https://archive.org/details/windows-3.1-disks/307647_front.jpg

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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