alt Hacker News> Also, swapping through 26 floppies to install would have been... Something.
I still have a legit copy of Word on 10 floppies.
It was bad. And when you'd copy so many floppies, typically one would fail and you'd only notice when installing. We weren't very advanced back then (at least I wasn't): no fancy an 11th "parity" disk that'll fix any other one that'd fail. At least not for me.
The data CD-ROM was a very welcome addition to the world back then.
I remember a trick (I think it was for Windows 95) where you could copy all the files to the hard drive first and then once they were all there, you could install directly from them.