From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:26:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2P4aGBisigVRWjuuYxN_qY1AtEUiYBa160Tz1ZwqUvWFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6be7f523fcb2118869de4391891e8f5a.squirrel@www.antarean.org>
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:54 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
> 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. ;)
I had to install Lotus Smart Suite on dozens of computers, it was
about 70 floppies IIRC. That became really fun when I suspected
someone had a virus, which infects every disk inserted... this was
before antivirus software was common. At home, on an OS/2 machine, I
dialed up the McAfee BBS and downloaded their AV program, made a
virus-free bootable floppy, set it read-only, and took it to work.
Nearly every computer, every disk, in offices covering half of the
USA, were infected with the Monkey.B virus. I proceeded to disinfect
hundreds of floppy disks at the offices where I worked for the rest of
the week. Fun. :)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 13:16 [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol Dale
2012-01-29 13:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Hartmut Figge
2012-01-29 16:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2012-01-29 16:19 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 17:19 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-01-29 18:06 ` Dale
2012-01-29 18:14 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 19:02 ` Dale
2012-01-29 19:09 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-29 19:27 ` Mick
2012-01-29 20:04 ` Dale
2012-01-29 22:08 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-01-29 22:41 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 23:41 ` walt
2012-01-29 23:46 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 0:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-30 0:16 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 1:29 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 3:40 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 4:23 ` David Relson
2012-01-30 11:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-30 20:52 ` Dale
2012-01-30 5:07 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-01-30 9:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 9:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 13:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 12:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 13:09 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-30 13:14 ` James Broadhead
2012-01-31 3:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 21:20 ` Dale
2012-01-31 0:29 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-31 2:56 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-31 17:00 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:05 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:30 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-31 23:10 ` wdk@moriah
2012-02-01 5:15 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-01 5:36 ` Dale
2012-02-01 11:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-01 13:41 ` Dale
2012-02-02 1:01 ` Walter Dnes
2012-02-02 2:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-02 3:33 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-02-02 4:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-02 7:54 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2012-02-02 9:17 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-02-02 16:26 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
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