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A stack of 15 floppy disks for one program. Please insert the next disk to continue (I can't remember the exact wording). Command prompt to A:\ and having to see what the install program might be called. Bring amazed that CDs could autorun programs.
Booting from a single floppy disk in A: and using the other floppy drive (B: of course) to store programs and files because there was no hard drive. And the floppy disks only stored something like 300 KB.
Please insert disk X/15 to continue
Disk read error, please insert correct disk to continue.
(at disk 12 of 25 lol)
Holy fuck your username is amazing!
Thanks! You've got an accurate username as well
Fond Slackware memories.
I lie, not fond memories, the 19th floppy was always illegible for some reason. I ended up dragging my box to the office to hook it up to the leased line (that's something else that's gone btw).
You can still order and provision leased lines, some security companies use them as secondary heartbeat monitors.
Also, this exact reason was why I always had 2 sealed copies of Win95 floppy insall in a desk drawer till CD drives were affordable.
It got a lot worse than 15 disks, lol
I remember having to rewind the cassette then hitting reset on the counter, then fast forward to the place on the tape where your program began then entering LOAD then pressing play... All for the crappiest artillery game...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
I remember getting Syndicate on floppy because I didn't have a CD-ROM drive yet... 21 disks to install. Worth it though.
I remember sitting in a bus going to/from school and every time I saw a dark gray Civic hatchback my brain would overlay crosshairs on it.
And then the last floppy had an error…
Pf, I can still remember looking a bright, colorful lines on the TV for 15 to 20 minutes to load a game from tape.
You poor soul! That time was intended for making snacks.