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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (7 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Please insert disk X/15 to continue

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Disk read error, please insert correct disk to continue.

(at disk 12 of 25 lol)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
 FUCK THE UNIVERSE, AND THE MEMORIES YOU JUST DUSTED THE COBWEBS OFF OF!
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Holy fuck your username is amazing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks! You've got an accurate username as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I remember having to rewind the cassette then hitting reset on the counter, then fast forward to the place on the tape where your program began then entering LOAD then pressing play... All for the crappiest artillery game...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I remember getting Syndicate on floppy because I didn't have a CD-ROM drive yet... 21 disks to install. Worth it though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I remember sitting in a bus going to/from school and every time I saw a dark gray Civic hatchback my brain would overlay crosshairs on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Pf, I can still remember looking a bright, colorful lines on the TV for 15 to 20 minutes to load a game from tape.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You poor soul! That time was intended for making snacks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

And then the last floppy had an error…