• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      I recall a Win95 installation involving on the order of 20 diskettes.

      I never purchased or manually installed MicroSlop Office prior to the advent of fully administrated local area networks, so from such specific pain I was spared

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        4 hours ago

        I already had my first CD-ROM drive (so futuristic!) when 95 came out. But I did install Office on Win3.1 from floppies. Soon after that I switched to OpenOffice and haven’t used commercial software (other than the Windows that came with the PC) ever since.

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          4 hours ago

          I could be wrong, but I think I bought (or rather, my parents bought) my first CD-ROM drive for installing Windows 95. I think that might have been the very first disc I put in the drive.