From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RszVt-0008TU-IY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:27:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A7F2E087D; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35944E086C for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:26:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahd3 with SMTP id d3so1610050lah.40 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:26:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=9N/TsrgNIr/YQL0g/rSX8qPteOZwPj6qlder5NLG7cM=; b=LGDEbxHciyyYPhYPfTRnKcxSNcgXY1ZMo0E9PFWE2AWgX1h4lAaM9ZlpsqurXgPIz1 YnKFS+vDYh1MEKQq4XO7FqPJLhN8c7d5Fdd+xCg5t+qPCsh0S3SQvbyPNsuueeOf4ihC YCLadddvFI/evax+iKwiEqnChPRzGpbClL4qU= Received: by 10.112.82.73 with SMTP id g9mr917062lby.60.1328200001156; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:26:41 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.95.141 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:26:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <6be7f523fcb2118869de4391891e8f5a.squirrel@www.antarean.org> References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <4F258AAF.9090504@gmail.com> <4F26939E.3030003@kutulu.org> <4F2696A7.40407@hadt.biz> <006801ccdfc3$ff31c3d0$fd954b70$@kutulu.org> <4F281F48.5060008@hadt.biz> <20120131173027.GA27928@waltdnes.org> <73e6ccd61f22ed7435833eb0727d7604.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <4F28CF6B.4010507@gmail.com> <6be7f523fcb2118869de4391891e8f5a.squirrel@www.antarean.org> From: Paul Hartman Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:26:21 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: R2pkQ951HYZ_Dg1FTaDYC_Cp_3I Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 0e3372e4-dfcf-4e29-9ae1-23e3b592138b X-Archives-Hash: beec7d7ef7c1208acfe1518431145113 On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:54 AM, J. Roeleveld 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. :)