Surely this picture is fake
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Are we really asking questions like this now? 
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you would be well miffed if you got a read error on disk 3711 
Its fake, the Windows logo is very subtly incorrect (not wide enough) and the text "Windows 8.1" is in Arial, and should be Segoe UI. 
You can also see tell-tale signs of editing around the edges of the labels, as well as around the Microsoft logo.
The Microsoft logo also doesn't have a copyright symbol against it. Same goes for the logo on the box.
Oh and it would require about 2400 floppy disks, not 3700!
You can also see tell-tale signs of editing around the edges of the labels, as well as around the Microsoft logo.
The Microsoft logo also doesn't have a copyright symbol against it. Same goes for the logo on the box.
Oh and it would require about 2400 floppy disks, not 3700!
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Reminds me of when I downloaded the quake 3 "beta" - the only place with a fast internet connection was college so I had to span it over a ridiculous number of floppy discs to get it home...
I also made a special edition of Quake 2 for playing just "the edge" map that could fit on a single floppy disc with everything cut out or compressed that wasn't absolutely essential so we could LAN it at college (the audio sounded like an old 8bit game).
I also made a special edition of Quake 2 for playing just "the edge" map that could fit on a single floppy disc with everything cut out or compressed that wasn't absolutely essential so we could LAN it at college (the audio sounded like an old 8bit game).
Depends on whether said unenlightened person still has a floppy drive installed. That said, they probably still have serial, parallel & printer ports on their system & uses a 33.6k modem to connect to the internet.
I can talk though. I must be one of the few on here to have owned a 100MB zip drive & paid over the odds for it. I bought a CD writer a year or so later & never bothered to use it after that. the cartridges failed after a couple of times anyway & where a fair bit more expensive than CD-RW.
Depends on whether said unenlightened person still has a floppy drive installed. That said, they probably still have serial, parallel & printer ports on their system & uses a 33.6k modem to connect to the internet.
I can talk though. I must be one of the few on here to have owned a 100MB zip drive & paid over the odds for it. I bought a CD writer a year or so later & never bothered to use it after that. the cartridges failed after a couple of times anyway & where a fair bit more expensive than CD-RW.
My PC setup includes a beige Epson Stylus printer, connected via a serial print cable and a couple of adapters.
Still have mine in a box....Depends on whether said unenlightened person still has a floppy drive installed. That said, they probably still have serial, parallel & printer ports on their system & uses a 33.6k modem to connect to the internet.
I can talk though. I must be one of the few on here to have owned a 100MB zip drive & paid over the odds for it. I bought a CD writer a year or so later & never bothered to use it after that. the cartridges failed after a couple of times anyway & where a fair bit more expensive than CD-RW.
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Wasn't really a new invention though as the technology already existed for Audio CD's the PC manufacturers just appropriated it. Same with DVD's.
Which is a good example of synergy why bother to invent new tech when you utilize existing? CD's when invented could only be manufactured in a plant stamped or pressed, then PC manufacturers not only utilized the tech so you could actually read the discs but they invented CD writing too which meant that anybody at home could read and copy audio CD's in a way that was never foreseen by the creators of the CD which lead to the rise of piracy, etc. People had copied tapes in the past but the inherently analogue nature of the technology put a strict limit on the number and quality of copies. Digital technology changed all that.
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My PC setup includes a beige Epson Stylus printer, connected via a serial print cable and a couple of adapters.
Well if it ain't broke don't fix it.. I had to buy a firewire card a few months back in order to transfer some analogue video footage of my sister's boys when they were little, I'm editing said footage in time for the eldest's 18th next year.
Surprised I could still get one TBH.
Wait another 20 years & put it on antiques roadshow perhaps....
Its fake, the Windows logo is very subtly incorrect (not wide enough) and the text "Windows 8.1" is in Arial, and should be Segoe UI.
You can also see tell-tale signs of editing around the edges of the labels, as well as around the Microsoft logo.
The Microsoft logo also doesn't have a copyright symbol against it. Same goes for the logo on the box.
Oh and it would require about 2400 floppy disks, not 3700!
Not to mention the idea of Microsoft packing their products in fish and chips paper
Over the years I've upgraded a few systems for people that came with a zip drive as standard (think they came from time or tiny or somewhere like that) I don't think a single one of those owners ever used the drive once.
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I remember Corel Draw being on 30 disks.
Same with Windows 95.
Wasn't there a thing going back 15-ish years where pirate games would go to the trouble of compressing all the assets and then part of some install script would covert them back into the format the game expected (with the resulting artifacting from lossy compression)? I can't remember any more to be honest.