windows 95 and a lot of time.

[Chako]

I was cleaning the upstairs gaming room and found my old floppy disk in 3 separate floppy storage containers. Among the old drivers and such...was my first Windows 95 OS that came in 30 floppies!

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Ah the good times. This brought back lots of good memories...feeding the floppy drive with an endless amount of disks. You had to have time on your hands because installing this was a marathon. 

[Grant Lamontagne]

Wow, and I thought I was doing good to still have a copy of Win 95 on CD!

30 floppies sounds like a nightmare....

"Oh crap, was I on 17 or 16?"

Def

[Chako]

 

I did not know I still had them. 

[Millhouse]

Imagine getting to the last disk and it not working.

[ezdog]

Imagine getting to the last disk and it not working.

I dont have to imagine,I remember all too well!

I still have old original iPods loaded as hard drives with old versions of Mac OSX too!

Those were the days.

[Pacu]

I remember working at a local video store/ book store ( Hastings ) when Windows95 was out. Place was a madhouse with people swarming the store to buy it. Guess that night they were still installing discs . 

[Chako]

The struggle was real. 

[WaynejG]

Today's generation will never understand

[kkokkolis]

I remember that, although I don't still have it.
Waiting forever for the cassette to load, but I can't describe the happiness, the kind you can never get with today's instant  gratification.

[Chako]

The only computer I had a cassette tap for was a Time Sinclair 1000. You needed one with a counter built in.

[Vidar]

I seem to remember a Commodore 64 with psychadelic colors when loading? Turbo loader? Because it was so quick? 

Also think there was some gizmo to properly copy tapes as the double decks for music didn't really do a proper job. Anyway, things got so much better when the one sided 170KB floppy discs got down to a half decent price.