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It mentions Windows 95 being available on 5.25" floppies upon request back when it was released. Intriguing.


That would have sucked to install that way. I did OS/2 2.0 that way and it did suck.


Presumably it was only offered on high density 1.2 MB 5.25" floppies, so not that bad compared to the 1.68 MB weirdo DMF-formatted 3.5" floppies Windows 95 was normally delivered on.

Still, would be interesting to see a photo of those 5.25" Windows 95 disks.

(https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-95/rtm has three dumps of 5.25" 1.2 MB disks.)


Pretty sure it was 1.2MB HD. There was something along the lines of 20-25 of them. Then lord help you if suddenly the system would panic because it was slightly out of spec of what OS2 wanted (usually halfway thru). Also if memory serves me I think you could tell the windows installer to make a set of disks from a CD. Then you got to feed the beast a bunch of floppies.




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