• Majorllama@lemmy.worldBanned
    2·
    1 year ago

    I am almost certain there is a copy of both XP and 7 with the key written on the disc just like this in my box of “maybe I’ll need it one day” computer cables and parts box lol.

      • Majorllama@lemmy.worldBanned
        2·
        1 year ago

        I found an original StarCraft jewel case in the trunk of my car last year. It had heros of might and magic 4 inside lol.

      • Majorllama@lemmy.worldBanned
        2·
        1 year ago

        I had to pull out a DVI-D to display port cable from there a few days ago. I felt so validated for holding onto that cable for 3 moves lol

  • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m old enough to remember Win3.0 and the 10-digit activation codes that were valid if they were mod-7. Yes, that did include 000-0000000.

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I still have mine around here, somewhere! It’s WinXP Media Center 2005. That I still use on my Dimension E510.

  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m old enough to have saved and loaded data with a cassette drive (i.e. a random ass tape deck with a special cable attached to the computer) on a TI-99/4a. You had to set the volume level the same for recording and reading or else it wouldn’t read correctly. Get off my lawn.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    Haha, no.
    I’ve got better, a modified ISO that doesn’t need a key. Maybe there is malware, who knows, but it doesn’t need a key.

    Matter of fact, I carry around a portable USB DVD drive and book case with discs in my backpack. Linux ISOs but also the newest Hiren’s Boot disc (which is based on Windows 11 PE).

    But I just like DVDs. Yes, I have a Ventoy disk, yes, it boots in seconds, not minutes, yes it’s smaller and more convenient, but does it spin? Does it make any (audible) sounds? Is it nice and shiny? Does it require burning, verification and some more care? No, it’s just a boring USB stick.

    But my backpack also includes a WRT54GL with DD-WRT, so…

    It’s similar to how I grabbed at 3G when its shutdown was announced. I switched my phone to 3G only (“WCDMA only” in *#*#4636#*#* menu) until I was forcefully disconnected when the cell towers in my area shut down. But for the sake of affecting some possible statistics, I switched back to 3G only every time before entering area that still had 3G and switched it back only a while after exiting it.
    My idea was there could be some statistics for the last days of 3G usage, and perhaps it could include devices that would not successfully re-connect after the shutdown.

    Just an example there. I like to keep old technology around, and I like to affect statistics in certain ways, and I do want DVD purchase statistics to be higher, so I keep using them, and I like them too.

  • intelisense@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    Pfffft, you kids! I remember shuffling through a couple of dozen 3½" disks to install Windows 3.1 for Workgroups.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s what, like 28MB? For a fucking operating system. Now windows uses like 60GB and just bloats from there.

        • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yes Windows is bloated AF but even Linux Mint has a minimum space requirement of 20G with 100G as the recommendation. Hell just my swapfile wouldn’t fit in the largest partition supported by MSDOS 6.22 (2 Gigabytes BTW).

          No preemptive multitasking, no 3D support of any kind, no usb or plug and play, no desktop compositing, no web browsing…and the list goes on and on. Desktop environments just do so much more now than in the WfW 3.11 days that a DE install 1,000 times the size of WfW is pretty much normal.