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Did you know Windows 95 didn't just come on CDs? It also came in a pouch of floppy disks!

Raymond Chen, "The Old New Thing," "How many floppy disks did Windows 95 come on?", Microsoft Dev Blogs, 2005-08-19: devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewt

My win95 lappy didn't have a CD-ROM drive, so agreeing to the license by opening the misshapen pouch it was printed on was the only way I could install it.

Today, I found out that 987-6543210 is a perfectly valid Windows 95 product key.

Gigazine, "The product key of Windows 95 was implemented with an ultra-simple algorithm that can break through '111-1111111' and '000-0000000'", 2023-03-04: gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20230

@arielmt we once installed Office 95 from over 30 floppy disks. the disks would then self-modify so that if you wanted to install from them again, you had to click OK in an "I am sure I am not pirating this software" dialog box for each file copied.

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