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by Centmo 1374 days ago
Especially when you're on floppy #25 of OS/2 Warp.
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I recall installing Office from ~35 floppy discs, and finding that one of the discs in the 20s was unreadable after what felt like an eternity. The installation still completed after I skipped it though, so presumably it only contained some optional feature I never ended up using.
A friend of mine had his first job installing Oracle from floppies. I'm not sure what the actual count was, but we would joke about him installing disk 1 of 99...
First job I had was installing SCO off tapes and that was the year 2000
Thanks, that brought back a vivid memory I didn't even know was still knocking around my brain!
Or floppy #10 of Mark of the Unicorn’s DAW.

Nervous times they were!