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My PC didn’t support boot from CD, so I had to use about 6 WinXP floppies just to load the necessary drives to install from the CD. Good times
I think we also had the Win 95 and 98 installallers somewhere although I learned how to do it when upgrading from 98 to ME
That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.
Another commenter posted, you can just get it from Wikipedia
Its been blacklisted by Microsoft for 20 years
Fucking Microsoft! Always ruining my plans!
I’ve seen far more copies like this than original XP discs. It was the style at that time!
Original copies? WTF? I mean, I had this version too, but I never ever saw the originals my disks were a copy of.
Here in former Yugoslavia, we got one original copy that got distributed to (probably) the whole country. Old times were so fun.
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
Now I want to brag with my CPM3.0 floppies for the C128… But parents sold the computer when I wasn’t looking :(
This is the internet. You can say “fuck GW”, it’s fine
Typing CD keys was such a feeling when it was for a brand new game you can’t wait to play, pure despair if you mistyped something and it didn’t accept but then you corrected the error, biggest sense of relief of my childhood
My first typing was a game into C64 using machine code. Game magazines at that time dedicated a few pages with lines of hex numbers for games. After typing 4 pages you had a game.
Unfortunately, I‘ve got my data tape recorder two month later for xmas. And mom was nervous about keeping the power on for days. I entered those numbers quite some times. Load„*“,8,1
The joy of typing binary from a magazine into a hex editor :) we did it as two people, one reading, one typing, but I believe we only ever completed one of the smaller listings.
That’s some hardcore ‘cd key’ typing lol
I miss when they just sent free CDs.
Windows XP is what made me switch to Linux.
Ubuntu is what made me stick with ANY distro as long as it was not Ubuntu. Most crashy breaky thing ever.
Damn, I think I once asked for their version 8 CD, was amazed at it!
i think i had the gutsy CD
they really did make the linux desktop usable by normies didnt they
Not real. The Bs and 8s are clearly different.
I had the same key on my XP disc.
What the hell? That’s the same combination as my luggage!
That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life! That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
How do you know my WiFi password???
I was thinking the same thing! I swear I’ve used this key.
University keys are available online.
At one point in my life I had the XP VLK for my university memorized. Now all I remember is the end: BGDBB.
Floppy disk with Win 3.11
Also; You are at a crossroads, there are roads to the north, south and east. There is a dwarf, the dwarf throws an axe at you. The axe misses
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Ama bout to score me a free copy of XP 😏
I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.
Windows 3.1 was only like 7 disks.
The giant pile of floppies was Windows 95, at more than 100. And the Windows 98 upgrade CD. would ask for a random one several times during a clean install, so we had those things for a while.
As for showing my actual age, when I was a kid my dad bought an Amstrad PC1512, a mostly DOS machine with two 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drive.
My dude, you shouldn’t post the key in open 🫣
The key that’s so commonly used, it’s in Wikipedia.
damn now my XP serial is public for everyone, I thank you NOT!
I remember reading a conspiracy theory that this key was purposely put in by a liberal employee who believed everything should be free and that’s why the first 5 digits are FCKGW - fuck George w - and that it was the volume license for Lockheed Martin or something
It’s not true but interestingly this key was leaked before windows xp even came out, like a month before, and it’s suspected to be a VLK from dell
Nowadays they’d probably say leftist
I can smell this photo
Ah yes, the ozone-plastic top notes with an undertone of Doritos and Mt. Dew. And is that a slight hint of cheap beer?
J3QQ4-…
I don’t remember if that was from XP or 98…
Older than this. I stopped before XP.
How do you stop, please teach me master.
MF, i had the same, same disc, same key lmao
that is so cute… less than 1gb
missed that day
Leaked an installation key? Microsoft is gonna send a helicopter to raid you…
I’m worried about a bunch of 3.5" floppies I have that I used to store a bunch of personal documents and journal writing from high school.
I haven’t seen any of these documents for years because it’s been a long time since I had a system with a floppy drive.
USB floppy drives aren’t expensive.
It’s also just laziness and time on my part. I have a couple of ancient systems in my basement that I haven’t started in years that I think still have a floppy drive but it would take work for me to start up and sort out, then figure out how to transfer everything over.
And I haven’t motivated myself for that considering it would all be for about 10MB of data?
It’s amazing when you think about it. Thirty years when I made those floppies, it was like gold and I felt like I was holding an immense amount of data in a 1.5 MB floppy disk. And it wasn’t easy to move the data around and it took an obvious amount of time to see the data being transferred.
Now we snap a photo with an average smartphone to generate a 20 megapixel image onto a 4 MB file in the blink of an eye … every day … all the time … hundreds, thousands of times without any effort at all.
Thx for the key shithead
Have fun with XP? Not sure Microsoft even cares anymore
They didn’t even care back then, they sure as fuck don’t care now.
Somehow upgrading from MS-DOS 3.30 to 5.0 was alright, but 6.22 seemed like a lot of clutter. QEMM386 was the shit. My 8088 got the coprocessor upgrade at some point I’m Geoworks old. With the C64 on the side
Resol@lemmy.world 19 minutes ago
Finally, now I don’t need to have to call a number to get my XP activated, I can just use this.
For those not in the know, XP’s activation requirements are so harsh that your computer just gets disabled completely after the 30 day grace period if you don’t activate at all. I live in a place where people really don’t tend to buy operating systems, so this was a gigantic letdown.
You know what? Fuck Windows XP. There. I said it. And I’m taking the downvotes without remorse.