[walshemj]

Just prior to doing my first internet project for BT back in 94 I spent a year working on a Oracle forms project to manage the UK's SMDS network.

When it came to delivery you had to install in the correct order 15-16 separate 3.5 inch floppy disks - before you could install our forms application :-) took me and the other developer 3 day to install the 6 or so pilot users -

We also had to take up a spare server at the last minute as they had neglected to order the hardware - luckily they did have a network so the network hardware we also brought as insurance wasn't needed.

Back in the 80's I also ran the production side of our apple and pet software biz - I recall having to stay late to ring up Microsoft (in new mexico) about a very strange bug in USD pascal on apple hardware.