Hey look, someone 3D printed a whole bunch of save icons.
bruh
Disk 1 of 3711
“fuck”
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Bzzzt: error. (R)etry/(A)bort/(F)ail/(J)ust die?
Disk 3710 is missing
Now we gotta do this with Windows 11.
You better have at least 4x as many floppys at your disposal.
Is this a real thing
It absolutely is not real, or at least it’s not a real Microsoft product. 8.1 was never released on floppy.
It’s possible that this is a bootleg release targeting an emerging market somewhere. You can use the Windows DISM tool to split the Windows image file (WIM) into split files. Just have the first disk format the target drive, set up a temp folder, run a process that’ll wait for each disk to be inserted and copy over the split file when it is, then finally start the installation command when all have been copied over.
…or it’s just a funny image.
Does anyone remember the game Syndicate? When it came out, I didn’t have a CD-ROM drive yet. But I saw there was a floppy version I could install, so I got that.
It was on 19 floppies.
Longest, most painful install ever. Great game though.
Some Microsoft Office installations were 40+ diskettes. Thankfully, this kind of nonsense was quickly replaced by CD-ROMs.
I recall buying a massive box for C++ at a computer show in the 90s, but I can’t recall if it came with dozens of discs and/or whether it came with a massive printed reference book 😂
What do you think they’d do at an airport if you tried to check these in? Just how elastic is our Constitution?
Well, first you’d have to explain to the TSA guard why you have so many “save-file buttons,” and after you crumble to dust you can easily drift away to catch your flight
I don’t even want to imagine how long the first update would take on that 56K Flex modem…
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I know people who would love a job like that and I hate them. Hate them so fucking much.
This would be soul crushing to me even drunk and stoned.