11 Oct
2012
11 Oct
'12
6:01 a.m.
On 10/10/2012 12:17 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:16 AM, John Many Jars
<john at yoyodyne-propulsion.net> wrote:
I'm liking these responses... that's the second time in this thread I've
started typing a message and someone else has beaten me to it :-)
I started over-thinking it and wondering if any installer has let you
select a completely different source of media on-the-fly, though? (Normally
it's "take the media out, put the next in the set back in the same drive")
I suppose you could hook up 15,000 floppy drives to a box 'o tricks that
made the whole lot look like a DVD drive with continuous data blocks,
though, and then plug that into a PC...
cheers
Jules
On 10 October 2012 12:07, Camiel
Vanderhoeven<iamcamiel at gmail.com> wrote:
Testing a Windows 8 floppy install? I think you're on the right track. My guess
is that they're building
an on-line software repository to archive the 15,000 diskettes with
software they have, and want to do it using original-era hardware.
Maybe they want to restore a very large Windows 3.1 backup?