Reply to post: Re: Apple get too much credit for killing off the floppy drive

He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

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Re: Apple get too much credit for killing off the floppy drive

> And having had to install Office 98 from 45 floppies

You could get HP-UX on floppy at one time, I remember an internal discussion with a field engineer asking if it was still available and one of the lab guys replying that the next release was the last one "thank ****" as he'd just had to format 68 floppies ready to take the programming environment.

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