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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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[–] 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.