@dfx And by the time 98/98SE rolled around I not only had them on CD, I got so lazy I'd copy the CD to the HD first. 😆 (I didn't want to have to feed it the disc later. I knew of course there was some registry entry that could be edited, but better just to install it from that location to begin with and then never ever see an "insert disc" message again.)

I can't even imagine feeding it that many floppies. As a kid I was put on "feed the installer floppies" duty for something (I guess 3.11 WfG?) and that was quite frustrating as it was. 38? Nope. Who didn't have at least a crappy CD-ROM by 98? Even a 1x would do.