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[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 weeks ago

There was also a period where you needed 3.5 AND 5.25 drives to use off the shelf software.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago

holy jesus, I thought I'd banished the actual floppy disk to the back of my mind, particularly the DS ones.

You know what, it's easy to rag on the devs at the time, but they worked with what they had. Good on them.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, that’s around where I came in. Although I did have an old 386 with two 5.25” drives and no hard drive.

[-] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

A 386 with no hard drive was crazy even then. My first was an 8088 (though technically a NEC v20) with a 5.25" and a 20 MB hard drive

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