Where I work, there’s a computer museum. I was going through some boxes and found this. The real jem here is the 16bit version.

  • freamonEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    4 floppy disks: 1.44 MB x 4 = 5.76 MB for 2 versions of a web browser
    This image: 12.7 MB

    This post neatly replicated the one-line-at-time loading of a pic from back then, though!

    • @thisbenzingringOPEnglish
      3•4 months ago

      omg the image is that big?! LOL I thought it was compressed it better because it changed it to a png for the site. I will keep that in mind next time

  • don
    2•4 months ago

    I still remember installing Win95 via diskettes.

    • @thisbenzingringOPEnglish
      4•4 months ago

      I did 1-800 support for Windows 95 and 98. The 98 had floppy installs but you had to special order it. The Windows 95 floppys were notorious for one bad disk. I sent so many single floppies out, it was embarrassing.

    • @thisbenzingringOPEnglish
      3•4 months ago

      True but you would be surprised how often they are if they were kept in a stable environment. We have had lots of luck with older disks

      • IninewCrowEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        I went through some of my old stuff a year ago and found a bundle of 20 1.44 floppies wrapped in aluminum foil in a plastic case. It was a friend of mine who did music production and the disks are labelled as MIDI files. I keep forgetting that I should mail these things to him as he hasn’t looked at them in about 30 years. I had the idea of mailing them using his own name and pretending it was his past self sending him stuff.

      • @dparticiple@sh.itjust.works
        2•4 months ago

        I’ve also had surprising success extracting data from old floppy disks. I went through a box of 50 or so 3.5" disks a year or two ago, some of which were 25+ years old, and about 80% of them were either readable directly, or fully/mostly recoverable using GNU ddrescue. Something like a Greaseweazle would likely read even more. Always worth a try!