Are you sure you got that date right? Was not it 88?
Something does not add up. By 1998, hard disks at home were pretty common, I had already 300MB disks, and around 1992 had already two 150MB disks. They do not sound so big today, however even by 1995 standards, diskettes were already going the way of the dinossaur with Windows 95+Office 95 having a respectable size of almost 30 floppies.