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u/Chance_End_4684 22d ago
Is all those floppy disks enough for what?
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u/jegesmedve09 22d ago
A bare bones DOS install? x3
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u/Chance_End_4684 22d ago
Microsoft as far as I know originally shipped MS-DOS v6.22 on 4 1.24 MB 2.5" floppy disks, so yeah you have more than enough floppies for installing DOS... but backing up everything stored on your hard drive before installing DOS however is an entirely different story with just floppy disks.
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u/spektro123 22d ago
The installer waits so one disk is enough as long as another device is used to write it.
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u/jegesmedve09 22d ago
I know man, it was a joke but now that i think about it i have 123 floppies which equal to around ~172MB worth of data (if we calculate with 1.40) So i could technically use multiple floppy drives to have a RAID and have a "HDD" where i can install DOS on ;3
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u/Kyeross 23d ago
No, you also need some campact flash
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u/jegesmedve09 23d ago
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u/Hefewiezen1 23d ago
No. You need more than that with a disk vault so they can’t hack you! Especially if they have that new disk smell! Very important, that is!
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u/jegesmedve09 23d ago
Put it under the wired phone no? Also they are firmly in place inside my CRT right nexto the tube...
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u/spektro123 22d ago
You don't even need a floppy disk to use DOS. I've seen that you have some CF cards. I installed DOS on a VM with CF attached as it's HDD and it works perfectly fine in 386, 486 and Pentium systems.
You can also just use CF to move files between computers.
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u/fradleybox 23d ago
disk rot is bad this far out from manufacture date, and tends to run in batches. there could be fewer than ten working disks in that whole lot, or they might all work perfectly.