I bought Windows 95 on floppy disks when it first came out. I think it was 13 disks.
Microsoft used a special format for these floppies, called Distribution Media Format (DMF). It allowed them to fit 1.68MB onto each disk instead of the standard 1.44MB. I just went looking for information about that and found a web page that has not been changed since 1997:
I remember installing Windows 3.0. (Or possibly 3.1…?)
It came in exactly way too many disks. (Like, a dozen or so, maybe…? Though it felt like at least double that…)
Reversi was nice, though…
I’ve still got my copy of Windows 3.1 on 3.5" 1.44 MB disks; there are seven in total.
Now, Windows 95, that was a monstrosity on floppy disks.
I bought Windows 95 on floppy disks when it first came out. I think it was 13 disks.
Microsoft used a special format for these floppies, called Distribution Media Format (DMF). It allowed them to fit 1.68MB onto each disk instead of the standard 1.44MB. I just went looking for information about that and found a web page that has not been changed since 1997:
https://www.winimage.com/wimushlp/wini1a1y.htm