iamrootWhile I wait for Diablo IV to download 95GB of data, someone mentioned how games used to come on a pile of floppy disks. King's Quest V in '91 was 8 floppies. In 1997, I worked at the University of Wyoming as a user support tech, CD-ROMs were not standard equipment for staff yet... so I had a box with 46 Office floppies & 14 Windows 95 floppies & a couple utility ones to rebuild the DOS baseline install with the config.sys and autoexec.bat files. Yes: These are old man stories.
Later, we got a "CD-ROM Backpack" unit - a parallel port CD-ROM drive kit in a bag with Windows and Office CDs to speed things up. A reimage was still generally a 3-4 hour project. I made $5.25 an hour, less than my night job as a cook at Denny's.