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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Remember: Those were probably the times of a single computer at home and having a spare laptop somewhere ready for that is not the default.

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      1 year ago

      Those were the times when I had to pull out my hard drive, ride my bike to my best mate’s house, and plug it into their PC so I could finish up a report due the next day. All because Windows 95 didn’t shut down cleanly and refused to boot.

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      1 year ago

      I did actually remember that, but figured, they must have had some way of reinstalling Windows, too.

      I guess, though, they might have had a physical Windows install disk at home. So, yeah, would have had to prepare a Linux Live CD before disaster struck…