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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Ugh, never. But installing the OS ... also ugh

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Windows 3.1 was only about 10 floppies with DOS being about four. But Office was about 40.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I recall a Win95 installation involving on the order of 20 diskettes.

I never purchased or manually installed MicroSlop Office prior to the advent of fully administrated local area networks, so from such specific pain I was spared

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I already had my first CD-ROM drive (so futuristic!) when 95 came out. But I did install Office on Win3.1 from floppies. Soon after that I switched to OpenOffice and haven't used commercial software (other than the Windows that came with the PC) ever since.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I could be wrong, but I think I bought (or rather, my parents bought) my first CD-ROM drive for installing Windows 95. I think that might have been the very first disc I put in the drive.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I had the CD-ROM drive running with 3.1. But they only really became mainstream after 95 came out.