Ha ha! I remember those days when Windows and Office came on 3.5” diskettes. Loading them onto one machine at a time was fun (ha!). When disk one finished on one machine you grabbed it and ran to load onto the next one. Musical chairs! Those were the days....
I recently uncovered a box of IDE HDD’s. I didn’t know what was on them and didn’t want to toss them as-is. So I resurrected a 30-year old PC so that I could read the drives and recover any data.
It ended up being an entire day job, remembering jumper settings and BIOS options. In the end it turned out that Windows 98 couldn’t “see” several of the drives. So I had to update. The machine wouldn’t support anything newer than Win-XP. Fortunately I could load it from CD and didn’t have to do so from diskette.
Post Script: I did find some old photos that my father had scanned so it was all worth it!
[[Ha ha! I remember those days when Windows and Office came on 3.5” diskettes.]]
Lol i never had 3.1 but my neighbor did- he loved loading it lol-