Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 8 months agoAs you are doing it you never realizelemmy.worldimagemessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1513arrow-down117
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minus-squaredbtng@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·8 months agoI recently tried. Didn’t work. Don’t know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted. CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months ago CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear. Spoken like a person who doesn’t own a floppy drive. 😞 Tap for spoiler I’m just making a silly joke, of course, but I think there’s enough temporal overlap between floppy drives and USB ports that it’s accurate.
minus-squaredbtng@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoI owned Win95 on floppy. That was a hell of an install. 11 disks?
I recently tried. Didn’t work. Don’t know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted.
CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.
Spoken like a person who doesn’t own a floppy drive. 😞
Tap for spoiler
I’m just making a silly joke, of course, but I think there’s enough temporal overlap between floppy drives and USB ports that it’s accurate.
I owned Win95 on floppy. That was a hell of an install. 11 disks?