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grue@lemmy.world 4 days agoCDs 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.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 days 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 4 days 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 drives so that he could run more complex programs on the thing.