• raktheundead@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    I’ve still got my copy of Windows 3.1 on 3.5" 1.44 MB disks; there are seven in total.

    Now, Windows 95, that was a monstrosity on floppy disks.

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      I bought Windows 95 on floppy disks when it first came out. I think it was 13 disks.

      Microsoft used a special format for these floppies, called Distribution Media Format (DMF). It allowed them to fit 1.68MB onto each disk instead of the standard 1.44MB. I just went looking for information about that and found a web page that has not been changed since 1997:

      https://www.winimage.com/wimushlp/wini1a1y.htm