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Re:What if you delete the “Program Files” folder in Windows?... by PinkMilkshake on Monday December 12, 2022 @05:52PM (#33961632)
It was 13. I only remember because that was when I first started learning about computers, and I needed them many times. My Mom loved me.
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Re:What if you delete the “Program Files” folder in Windows?... by Shendare on Monday December 12, 2022 @06:31PM (#33962007)
I have somehow never gotten around to throwing away the box of ancient floppies I've got in a closet from ages ago, and the Windows 95b (OSR2) installation disks I made were still in it, complete with custom color printed labels I splurged on.

https://i.imgur.com/iVNVleR.jpg

The media I copied from took up 28x 3.5" HD floppy disks. It's possible they were copied from what was originally a CD-ROM. I don't remember clearly anymore.

Note: I'm not trying to refute or correct your 13-disk figure, which was clearly a different installation set, and likely original Windows 95 rather than my OSR2, which came out around 1997.

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Re:What if you delete the “Program Files” folder in Windows?... by hermitdev on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:22PM (#33964350)
Hrmm. Seems you're right and my memory is way fuzzier than I thought. Raymond Chen also says 13 [0]. Maybe it was just my existential dread of one of the floppies having gone bad that makes me think it was more.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050819-10/?p=34....

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Re:What if you delete the “Program Files” folder in Windows?... by dylan604 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:40AM (#33965251)
I think Photoshop was around 22 floppies, but things from that time period are quite fuzzy
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