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Tell me what it means (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please insert disk 10/12

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Windows 95.

Disk 13: General failure reading disk

Me: Who the fuck is General Failure and why is he reading my disk?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I once spent a night on vacation copying all the floppy disks for Project Chicago (alpha of Win 95). It was like 50 disks.

Piracy having to occur in person was a short lived thing. Though even at that time BBSs were a thing, but I can't imagine how long that would have taken to download.