• @grue@lemmy.world
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    31 month ago

    CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.

    Spoken like a person who doesn’t own a floppy drive. 😞

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    I’m just making a silly joke, of course, but I think there’s enough temporal overlap between floppy drives and USB ports that it’s accurate.

    • macniel
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      41 month ago

      Remember when BIOSes weren’t able to boot from CD-ROM so you needed a boot disk? Or was that just a windows problem?

      • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        The first computer I ever used was a Macintosh 128k. It didn’t have an OS. The OS was on a floppy that you had to have in to start the system. My dad bought two external floppy drives so that he could run more complex programs on the thing.