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30 Pounds of Software
Microsoft Office, Circa 1994
Going through some closets in our childhood home, my sister came across some software she bought fresh out of college. It's a blast from the 22-years-ago past, when software came with massive manuals.
In this case, the box weighs 30 pounds (14kg), and the manuals are 9" (23cm) wide.
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Floppies. 31 Floppies.
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“Disk Format: High Density (1.44 MB)”
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A Few Manuals
of very many
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“Micro Electronics”?
This was back when “Windows™” was just “Windows™” (it was a year or two before “Windows 95™”). She paid about $500 for it, in 1994 dollars no less.
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Side of the Box
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Back
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Other Side
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Ahh these floppy disks… memories!
I started with Windows 95. 🙂
Do you still have the computer that these programs were bought for?
I highly doubt it… it was my sister’s, and perhaps the old computer is buried under stuff in a closet somewhere, but if so, we haven’t found it yet. —Jeffrey
Wow, old memories! I haven’t touched a floppy disk in at least 17 years… Thanks for the blast from the past!
I remember feeding 30 someodd floppy disks of word in. I also remember my college job at my university installing windows on new computers. I stacked the computers in a column and moved floppy disk 1 from the top computer to the next when it was done and start disk 2 on the top.
Wowzers, this brings me back to the Packard Bell era at my house.