• WashedOver@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I don’t even want to imagine how long the first update would take on that 56K Flex modem…

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    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.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      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 😂