![]() ![]() It fit, it got to Windows, then you couldn't do anything as there's no space for any more. Then I use compression to increase capacity, and trimmed down MS-DOS and Windows 3. The floppy disk was formatted for more capacity, can't recall exact details but I think increasing sectors per track from 9 to 11, and increasing the number of tracks beyond 80. I do remember trying to get a bootable Windows install running off a single floppy, and I achieved it. I was around during the floppy era, but can't remember how I dealt with bigger backups. So yeah, by the time we had the internet on our computer (CompuServe) we also had access to 120MB Floppies, I never had issues fitting things on discs though I could never use those discs outside of our house either. Together we fitted the LS120 drive and upgraded her to 32MB of RAM. It was my first time working inside a computer and I remember it very clearly as it sparked my interest in how they worked internally. My uncle came over to see us one day and with him he fetched a huge bag of EDORAM and a new floppy drive called an LS120. It was far from top of the line but compared to our old one it was super fast. It was an Olivetti Pentium 75 with 8MB of EDORAM, a Soundblaster 16 and a Trident video card. As a kid I got really lucky, my mum had a 486 forever (as long as I can remember anyway) for her job and when it died her company gave her money to replace it with, it wasn't a huge sum and I remember she had to pay some out of her own pocket but we got a new fangled Pentium machine a few months after they released. ![]()
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