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Okay, I calculated Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit is 3,545,472 KB. And 3.5 floppies was a average of 1.44 MB.

That would make you require about 2,463 floppies to install. I know a couple of you guys don't like Windows 10, and love 7, so I got a figure for that as well of the internet, someone said 2084 (I don't know how big the ISO is, so I can't work it out.). Would you install Windows with that many floppies? I would like to try it...

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1 minute ago, Factory OC said:

Okay, I calculated Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit is 3,545,472 KB. And 3.5 floppies was a average of 1.44 MB.

That would make you require about 2,463 floppies to install. I know a couple of you guys don't like Windows 10, and love 7, so I got a figure for that as well of the internet, someone said 2084 (I don't know how big the ISO is, so I can't work it out.). Would you install Windows with that many floppies? I would like to try it...

The cost of manufacturing all those floppies would far exceed the price of Windows.

 

Also Windows has to be in one, complete image on a bootable volume, whether it be on USB flash drive or optical. You cannot split it up into tiny pieces.

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2 minutes ago, Phentos said:

Also Windows has to be in one, complete image on a bootable volume, whether it be on USB flash drive or optical. You cannot split it up into tiny pieces.

Your really taking this serious. of course in real life this could not happen, but use your imagination.

And imagine it cost the same as a disk copy.

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Trust me, installing Windows with floppies is not fun (especially when #1273 turns out to be corrupt).

 

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Holy crap, I would be pissed when one is corrupt, all that work, just for one disk to go "The disk you inserted may be corrupted or damage, please contact Microsoft for support.":(

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12 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Okay, I calculated Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit is 3,545,472 KB. And 3.5 floppies was a average of 1.44 MB.

That would make you require about 2,463 floppies to install. I know a couple of you guys don't like Windows 10, and love 7, so I got a figure for that as well of the internet, someone said 2084 (I don't know how big the ISO is, so I can't work it out.). Would you install Windows with that many floppies? I would like to try it...

Absolutely not.

I remember installing Windows 95 from floppy it was time consuming and and a most horrible experience.

 

By the way @Phentos it is entirely possible to do it from floppy, how do you think installing programs from floppy work back then? The OS would be compressed into packages and then compiled by the installer to be installed onto the system.

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Just now, SansVarnic said:

Absolutely not.

I remember installing Windows 95 from floppy it was time consuming and and a most horrible experience.

 

By the way @Phentos it is entirely possible to do it from floppy, how do you think installing programs from floppy work back then? The OS would be compressed into packages and then compiled by the installer to be installed onto the system.

How many floppies did your version require? I'm pretty sure the version used for end uses needed 26 floppies. Must have been hell. 

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2 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

Absolutely not.

I remember installing Windows 95 from floppy it was time consuming and and a most horrible experience.

 

By the way @Phentos it is entirely possible to do it from floppy, how do you think installing programs from floppy work back then? The OS would be compressed into packages and then compiled by the installer to be installed onto the system.

Yes, I remember installing win 3.1 from floppies too, I think when win 95 came out I had the choice of cd, but not positive?... it was around 32 discs of floppies for 3.1 IIRC, took about 2-3 hours or possibly even longer to install. I hated floppies at the time even (around 1994), I also had a cd rom, so at least some things moved a little quicker than floppies, but computing back then was torturous in the extreme and had to find something to do while waiting for stuff to install/write etc was an extreme PITA.

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I will neither Install them. I do not want to deal will 3,000 flopies in my room just to Install Windows. I rather Install Vista or XP

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1 minute ago, GanstaKingofSA said:

I will neither Install them. I do not want to deal will 3,000 flopies in my room just to Install Windows. I rather Install Vista or XP

Vista is a lot different and larger than XP it might be 20-30% smaller than Windows 7 in size.

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Just now, M.A.P said:

Vista is a lot different and larger than XP it might be 20-30% smaller than Windows 7 in size.

But to deal with a bunch of floppies in the room, I build a floppy castle instead and get rid of floppy and buy CD

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3 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Yes, I remember installing win 3.1 from floppies too, I think when win 95 came out I had the choice of cd, but not positive?... it was around 32 discs of floppies for 3.1 IIRC, took about 2-3 hours or possibly even longer to install. I hated floppies at the time even (around 1994), I also had a cd rom, so at least some things moved a little quicker than floppies, but computing back then was torturous in the extreme and had to find something to do while waiting for stuff to install/write etc was an extreme PITA.

Windows 95 came out with a CD-Rom edition that only required one disk. I would like to install Windows 95 from floppies, just to see how hellish it should have been, if i only had a floppy drive in my laptop. Damn, 2-3 hours...

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3 minutes ago, GanstaKingofSA said:

I will neither Install them. I do not want to deal will 3,000 flopies in my room just to Install Windows. I rather Install Vista or XP

 

Just now, GanstaKingofSA said:

But to deal with a bunch of floppies in the room, I build a floppy castle instead and get rid of floppy and buy CD

I would rather have done that. Windows XP master race?

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2 minutes ago, GanstaKingofSA said:

But to deal with a bunch of floppies in the room, I build a floppy castle instead and get rid of floppy and buy CD

and need to store the system inside that castlexD. Strong protection and good way to hidexD

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Just now, Factory OC said:

 

I would rather have done that. Windows XP master race?

Yep that might be the clear winner right there

 

1 minute ago, M.A.P said:

and need to store the system inside the castlexD

I gonna store all my gaming hardware in there. Possibly a Floppy Table

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Just now, M.A.P said:

and need to store the system inside the castlexD

I would build my house out of it. If someone asked me "Can I lend you disk #1563?", I would be like "Take it from my wall.".

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Just now, GanstaKingofSA said:

I gonna store all my gaming hardware in there. Possibly a Floppy Table

Floppy desk PC build?

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3 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Windows 95 came out with a CD-Rom edition that only required one disk. I would like to install Windows 95 from floppies, just to see how hellish it should have been, if i only had a floppy drive in my laptop. Damn, 2-3 hours...

Yes it was hellish in the extreme... if computing ever went back to those days, I would quit working on them for sure.

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Just now, GanstaKingofSA said:

Anything since I Have a Bunch

You can just buy another copy of Windows anyway to build more stuff:P.

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1 hour ago, GanstaKingofSA said:

I gonna store all my gaming hardware in there. Possibly a Floppy Table

And gonna see the whole setup collapse when you take the bottom most FloppyxD

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3 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

I would build my house out of it. If someone asked me "Can I lend you disk #1563?", I would be like "Take it from my wall.".

And a part of house will be collapsedxD

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Just now, M.A.P said:

And gonna see the whole setup collapse when take the bottom most FloppyxD

Just glue them together:P.

3 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Yes it was hellish in the extreme... if computing ever went back to those days, I would quit working on them for sure.

Microsoft is doing shady stuff, wouldn't surprise me if they do that. I would rahter get my work done on a Mac then I guess...

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2 minutes ago, M.A.P said:

And a part of house will be collapsedxD

It's a small price to pay for my friend.

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