David Amadorthis is how we installed multi floppy disk software in the 90s, exactly like this.
Robert Petersen 
leidkultur@djlink whopping 14.4MB! Who need this ridiculous amount of space?!?!
🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣@leidkultur Any "modern" webpage need it. Actually no, only the JS part of a single webpage use all that space
Old stuff was much better in some aspects…
David Gavilan@djlink At some point I had 4 floppy drives for my Amiga 500. I could play games without changing floppies 💾!!!
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@endavid living the dream
Carnivius@endavid @djlink Monkey Island 2 came on 11 disks. Plus an extra one of your own for save files. I played the whole game back then with just the one internal disk drive because my sister was young enough at the time to somehow find all the diskswapping an oddly fun game in itself and we enjoyed the MI puzzles and stories together.
chexum@Revision2026
Bornach@endavid @djlink
As long as you never had to play Rise of the Robots
https://youtu.be/hAZCtEU0VDQ
Even the 10 disk drive depicted in that GIF would have been insufficient to avoid disk swapping - Rise came on 13 disks
They Lied to Us | Nostalgia Nerd
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️@c0dec0dec0de @djlink yes. And for bonus fun, there's a pretty good chance when they downloaded that GIF, it was from my Tumblr:
http://animefloppies.tumblr.com
http://animefloppies.tumblr.com
vga256@foone i really appreciate that you properly cited title and episode number for each animation. thank you.
The Retro Timer 💾@djlink At least this way you’d find out immediately that disk 9/10 has an “.arj” (later “.rar”) file with a CRC error so that you can ask your friend to make another copy.
PS: Tell me this made you hear the sound of a bad floppy in your head and I’ll tell your age.
@carlosefr I can vaguely remember the sound of bad floppy yes
jki@djlink Ahhh the trauma of having a friend's dad copy a new game on three floppy disks only to come back home, and have one of them fail. Some good times, those in the floppy era.
@jki I remember taking a work to school and failing to work, "i did the work I swear" xD
@djlink removing them also satisfies
Skyboy Games
MOVED:They faux'd around & found out!@[email protected] “…AND IT WAS ALL JBOD!”
Lyons@djlink I remember it as clear as every plastic electronic was in 1999.
Frigid Crystal Tormented Wrath@djlink Oh wow I WISH this is how we installed multi floppy software instead of the endless disk swap method
Loch Nix
Jeff Fouchard
Arno Peters@djlink I bet those are SuperDisks or something :p
Simon Detheridge 
@djlink that would've been really handy
PierreNick 
💾@djlink Before cd-caddy, we had..
Ben@djlink man I wish I could have been this cool
MudMan@sangster @djlink Hah. I can see how in Japan this would have seemed like a path forward, considering how many Japanese micros were doing dual floppy setups where both were used at the same time in really weird, creative ways:
That just looks like someone took a NEC PC 8801 MC and hit Ctrl-C Crtl-V a bunch of times.
cat anthropologist 🏳️⚧️@djlink had one of these floppy disk changers in my trunk in high school.
Sander van Rossen🇺🇦@djlink I had one that was a meter long
RetroFun.PL@djlink
"Insert disks 1-8 again to complete installation"
"Insert disks 1-8 again to complete installation"
Paolo Redaelli@djlink
That's an old #futurist #anime. No one had computers with more than 2 floppy drives, except perhaps some #Amiga user
@levibeach
That's an old #futurist #anime. No one had computers with more than 2 floppy drives, except perhaps some #Amiga user
@levibeach
Rusted~maid@djlink I remember win98 installer was something silly like 40 floppies.
@maid what a cumbersome yet delightful process
ytm@djlink Floppy RAID-0 array is a thing https://hackaday.com/2022/06/30/its-raid-with-floppy-drives/
Carlos Rodríguez@djlink I had those for Zip and Jaz drives. Pro level.
48kRAM
MegaZoneMegaZone 23 Part 3, IIRC
Betoniusz@djlink ah, the https://www.tumblr.com/animefloppies esthetics 💾
Mycotropic@djlink insert disk 14...... Disk 14 is corrupt, please insert disk 14. Installation exited with errors.
Cleo of Topless Topics@djlink
for a second I thought this would be a gif from Blue Gender and I was preparing myself for some really intimate dev device merging.
@florianjehn
for a second I thought this would be a gif from Blue Gender and I was preparing myself for some really intimate dev device merging.
@florianjehn
Thomas@djlink @robotspacer I was born to late to know if this is a joke or not
Francois Dion@djlink me switching data and waveform cards at the same time on my Yamaha SY77 synth
Michael McCune ☮️@djlink i would have been so cool with a floppy /speed loader/ XD
Julio Carrettoni 
@djlink nah, the 3rd one didn’t fail to read.
Owen Mehegan@djlink this would have made that Slackware install go a hell of a lot faster.
Ian Ridgwell@djlink Back when tech's were real techs and computing had style and class.
Jocelynephiliac 
@djlink this would have made windows installs so much easier!
teledyn 𓂀@djlink The whole crate was Windows 3.11
bluestarultor@djlink Knowing the PC-88 existed and used a dual-floppy setup that required you to switch specific disks into specific drives explains how all this multi-floppy stuff must have seemed like the solution the future needed.
Satchel 🎲💼@djlink Hell yeah, Megazone 23.
catraxx@djlink That is friggen awesome.
Az@djlink @shmouflon for loading up Seed data?
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Lexa 🎀
Dee in London
Fen 😷@djlink That's how I loaded up my 15-CD Disc changer, as well. Exactly like that.
Alexis Krier@djlink
From which movie is it?
From which movie is it?