I was so good and so careful with my printing when I had to write cd keys down. Nothing like burning something off of your summer vacation friend and then having them go back to the city and you’re off by… something.
I can remember installing Windows 95 with floppy disks, that was slow. XP was great because you could finally do minor things and it not require a reboot.
I still have 46 disks of Office floating around somewhere
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MF, i had the same, same disc, same key lmao
Thx for the key shithead
Have fun with XP? Not sure Microsoft even cares anymore
They didn’t even care back then, they sure as fuck don’t care now.
I had the same key on my XP disc.
I was thinking the same thing! I swear I’ve used this key.
You 100% did, it was the most used winxp key out there, it always works until Microsoft fucked it.
What the hell? That’s the same combination as my luggage!
That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life! That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
How do you know my WiFi password???
Typing CD keys was such a feeling when it was for a brand new game you can’t wait to play, pure despair if you mistyped something and it didn’t accept but then you corrected the error, biggest sense of relief of my childhood
My first typing was a game into C64 using machine code. Game magazines at that time dedicated a few pages with lines of hex numbers for games. After typing 4 pages you had a game.
Unfortunately, I‘ve got my data tape recorder two month later for xmas. And mom was nervous about keeping the power on for days. I entered those numbers quite some times. Load„*“,8,1
That’s some hardcore ‘cd key’ typing lol
The joy of typing binary from a magazine into a hex editor :) we did it as two people, one reading, one typing, but I believe we only ever completed one of the smaller listings.
I’ll leave this here – it was maddening, but so satisfying and magical to have a running program after seemingly endless typing: https://archive.org/details/1990-11-compute-magazine/page/0-34/mode/1up?view=theater
Older than this. I stopped before XP.
How do you stop, please teach me master.
I installed Ubuntu, and never looked back. I’d recommend trying it, and I hope it fits you too.
Floppy disk with Win 3.11
Yes, I have also installed windows from a very small stack of floppies. Windows 3.1
Also; You are at a crossroads, there are roads to the north, south and east. There is a dwarf, the dwarf throws an axe at you. The axe misses
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Now I want to brag with my CPM3.0 floppies for the C128… But parents sold the computer when I wasn’t looking :(
Original copies? WTF? I mean, I had this version too, but I never ever saw the originals my disks were a copy of.
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
Here in former Yugoslavia, we got one original copy that got distributed to (probably) the whole country. Old times were so fun.
I can smell this photo
Ah yes, the ozone-plastic top notes with an undertone of Doritos and Mt. Dew. And is that a slight hint of cheap beer?
that is so cute… less than 1gb
missed that day
My dude, you shouldn’t post the key in open 🫣
I’m worried about a bunch of 3.5" floppies I have that I used to store a bunch of personal documents and journal writing from high school.
I haven’t seen any of these documents for years because it’s been a long time since I had a system with a floppy drive.
USB floppy drives aren’t expensive.
It’s also just laziness and time on my part. I have a couple of ancient systems in my basement that I haven’t started in years that I think still have a floppy drive but it would take work for me to start up and sort out, then figure out how to transfer everything over.
And I haven’t motivated myself for that considering it would all be for about 10MB of data?
It’s amazing when you think about it. Thirty years when I made those floppies, it was like gold and I felt like I was holding an immense amount of data in a 1.5 MB floppy disk. And it wasn’t easy to move the data around and it took an obvious amount of time to see the data being transferred.
Now we snap a photo with an average smartphone to generate a 20 megapixel image onto a 4 MB file in the blink of an eye … every day … all the time … hundreds, thousands of times without any effort at all.
By your own admission, 10 MB of data could be a shit-ton of stuff that sounds important to you. Just get it done.
And to not be a hypocrite, I’ll get going on my own similar project I’ve been putting off for years, haha. Do we have a deal?
Hey, how’s it going? I managed to do about 40 disks this week (still a fraction of my hoard), though most of them had errors and I’m not sure if my method is the best way to image corrupted disks, to allow for future error correction.
Great, thanks! Full disclosure: this is how long mine has been on my to-do list.
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I’m finally setting myself a due-date: later this week. Check in with me, bud, I’ll check in with you!
Do it next weekend.
order the drive today
gather up the discs on wednesday
test the drive on thursday
Maybe it’s time you switched over to ZIP drive?
It’s like a floppy disk but the next big thing.
