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by phire 804 days ago
The reporter said "it runs off three five inch floppy disks"

It's unlikely a system deployed in 1998 would be using three separate 5¼" floppies. I'd believe a single 5¼" floppy, but not three of them.

It's much more likely the system boots off uses a single 3.5" floppy, and the reporter forgot to read out the "point"