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