[rescue] Disposing Of OS/2 Apps (old floppy installs)

Kevin kevin at pipeline.com
Fri Mar 30 00:31:17 CDT 2007


I remember installing Macromedia Director (actually, i think it was still
Macromind back then) in 1992 on a Mac IIci.  I think it was somewhere
between 24 and 30 floppies.  Took forever.  That's the largest floppy app
i've personally seen.  Anyone know any larger?  What's the record?

/KRM


On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:46:57 -0600
"Dan Duncan" <danduncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yuck.  I remember getting an install of some Corel product dumped on me
> around 1994 by a cow-orker who had to go to lunch around disk 4 of 20 or
> so.  The system would literally grind away for 10 minutes on each floppy
> because they were using some heavy compression scheme and decompressing
> each floppy on the fly instead of spooling them to hard drive and
decompressing
> there.  I wondered at the time why some people at Corel had jobs.



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