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Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs (www.theregister.com)

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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I'd actually forgotten how flaky 3.5" floppies were. That's very true.

A 5.25" you could probably send in a letter and stick the letter on a fridge with a magnet so your remember to mail it and it would still work when it arrived.

Well, maybe not, but it was quite a difference.

[–] Bilbo@hobbit.world 2 points 2 days ago

3.5" was still better than zip disks. At least you couldn't break your floppy drive with a bad disk. Zip drives would break due to a bad disk such that they damaged any other disks you used. Then those broken disks would break any working drive, etc. First and maybe only communicable hardware bug.