Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

[Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@fu-berlin.de>]

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On 02.02.2012 08:54, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> 
> On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote:
>> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke
>>>> wrote
>>>>>> Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before
>>>>>> someone makes a
>>>>> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I
>>>>> just won $5.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it I was using
>>>>> Win95 - and was happy with it I was using WinNT4 - and was
>>>>> happy with it I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it I
>>>>> was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it I was
>>>>> using Win7 - and was happy with it
>>>>> 
>>>>> And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user
>>>>> since 1.something (but up until now just on the servers).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my
>>>>> Workstation (Gentoo) and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few
>>>>> month ago.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults.
>>>> 
>>>> I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've
>>>> been even more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly
>>>> tried to ram ActiveX down people's throats.  Remove ActiveX,
>>>> and 99% of "drive-by-downloads" would've disappeared.  WinME
>>>> was a sad joke, however.
>>> 
>>> I enjoyed MS Dos, then played a bit with MS Win3.11, MS Win95
>>> and MS Win98SE. However, for important stuff, like day-to-day
>>> desktop, I switched to Linux in 1997. That was the last time I
>>> lost files due to a crash of MS Windows...
>>> 
>>> -- Joost
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> When 3.1 came out, I changed jobs.  Swapping 15 floppies is no
>> fun to me.  Funny, reinstalling fixed the problems back then and
>> it still is the best way to fix windoze.
> 
> You should've tried installing MS Office back then... 45 (Or
> there-abouts) floppies and the installer asking for them in a 
> random order. With some of those being asked several times...
> 
> The guy asking for it paid a lot for it, so it wasn't too bad. ;)
> 
> -- Joost
> 
> 

I remember OS/2 Warp 3.0 - 1 CDROM oder 95 floppies. I bought a
cdrom-drive after the install failed the third time because of a bad
disk (no. 70+, if i recall correctly) ;)
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