"Dick" LeadWinger wrote in message
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I have a bunch of that old stuff. I even have Windows 3.1. Also
found Windows NT Workstation 4.0 still sealed in the plastic wrapper.

Dick

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:30:20 -0600, Jim Adney
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:09:42 GMT "jack" wrote:

cant belive i found windows 95 on floppy at the local hamfest today for
$2.00.

Nice buy, and the seller was probably just as pleased.

How many disks in thst set?


The trick with Windows 95 on floppies is that you will have had to make your
'backup' copies BEFORE installing it for the first time. Silly buggers
designed those disks so that the first install disk is altered during the
install so that it can't be reused except on the original machine it was
installed on. Mind you, there may have been some industrious hacker that
has figured another way around that by now...

The trick with Windows 95 on floppies is that you will have had to make your
'backup' copies BEFORE installing it for the first time. Silly buggers
designed those disks so that the first install disk is altered during the
install so that it can't be reused except on the original machine it was
installed on. Mind you, there may have been some industrious hacker that
has figured another way around that by now...

Why not just click the "write protect" on the disks? It might stop the
installation, but at least it wouldn't write to the diskette??

Barry - N4BUQ

The trick with Windows 95 on floppies is that you will have had to
make your 'backup' copies BEFORE installing it for the first time.
Silly buggers designed those disks so that the first install disk is
altered during the install so that it can't be reused except on the
original machine it was installed on. Mind you, there may have been
some industrious hacker that has figured another way around that by
now...


Not true! I had factory Win95 floppies for years, and used them on
several computers until moving up to later versions. Came as a series of
33 1.67MB floppies, which were copyable, if you formatted your disks for
1.67 MB size. I'd have sent them to the original poster, but gave them
away not two weeks earlier.


Ed