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by jdswain 435 days ago
For some of us it brings back bad memories of sitting watching progress bars for hours and occasionally getting asked to feed another disk into the drive. Office was probably the worst for the number of floppies, but linux was even more, and you had the extra worry of if it would actually boot after the install, or if you got a setting wrong and had to start again.

Soon after all that we got to use CD's, which made life a lot better.
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MisterTea 435 days ago
> bad memories of sitting watching progress bars for hours

Bad? Nah. I would use the words "exciting or "annoying" as it was annoying to wait but exciting as you were edging closer to playing with new software.

HOWEVER: if the act of installing software over and over again all day long was your job, then you have my condolences :-)

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EvanAnderson 435 days ago
The shop I worked for, back in the day, got some of the technicians parallel ZIP drives. It was a godsend to copy the Windows 95 CAB files to the hard disk drive from the ZIP drive and run the upgrade from there, versus feeding the machine floppies.

If you were really luck you were working in a site w/ Novell Netware and you could just copy the CAB files down from the Netware server. >smile<

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486sx33 435 days ago
Probably spending 5 hours swapping diskettes and then finding out disk #48 was bad is like the worst feeling ever
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