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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:54 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> You should've tried installing MS Office back then... |
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> 45 (Or there-abouts) floppies and the installer asking for them in a |
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> random order. With some of those being asked several times... |
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> |
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> The guy asking for it paid a lot for it, so it wasn't too bad. ;) |
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I had to install Lotus Smart Suite on dozens of computers, it was |
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about 70 floppies IIRC. That became really fun when I suspected |
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someone had a virus, which infects every disk inserted... this was |
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before antivirus software was common. At home, on an OS/2 machine, I |
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dialed up the McAfee BBS and downloaded their AV program, made a |
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virus-free bootable floppy, set it read-only, and took it to work. |
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Nearly every computer, every disk, in offices covering half of the |
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USA, were infected with the Monkey.B virus. I proceeded to disinfect |
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hundreds of floppy disks at the offices where I worked for the rest of |
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the week. Fun. :) |
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