Windows 8.1 available for floppy drive installation

This is one of the most insane, yet oddly cool, computing things I have ever seen. Only in Japan.

 

that's a little absurd. installing windows 95 was bad enough with 14 disks.

 

imagine those floppies take 1 second to finish the 1.44mb (though it is actually slower than the internet nowadays) , you'd be spending more time swapping disks than actually installing the OS

say it takes 5 seconds to complete each floppy cycle (insert, continue, eject)...... it'll be a 18500 second operation, 5 hours and a bit.....

 

"disc #290 was corrupted, pls send replacement"
...one week afterwards:
"disc #456 was also corrupted... pls send replacement"

How big is the windows image? ~2000 floppies?

 

This gotta be some kind April fools joke?? No one much as a floppy drive anymore unless you have it on USB drive to use it. But what a waste of money when they could make a DVD of Windows 8.1 far less costly then the materials needed to make a floppy disk.

 

Yeah I'm pretty sure this was some trolling. I saw this last year when Windows 8.1 was released.

 

Normally I would think the same thing, but the fact that the printing is in Japanese gives me pause.

 

Given Microsoft Japan's history of highly creative marketing, is this something that's actually available to their customers, or is it just a publicity stunt like the Windows 7 Whopper was?

 

It`s a fake Photoshop`ed image just created for a laugh, i have seen the exact same photo just for Win8

I remmber installing Win95 when it first came on floppy disk, i praised god when the first cd roms came out with 650mb of space.

John.

 

That looks like a heart attack waiting to happen. :laugh:

 

Heh, have you ever used a floppy drive? 5 seconds to read one full diskette? Dream on...

Yep, that's what it is. Installation from floppies would take several days, never mind the fact that you are virtually guaranteed that at least one of those floppies will be corrupted.

 

I remember when i got my first pc, i had no hd floppy disks so i turned my Amiga Computers dd floppy disks into hd ones by drilling an extra hole in then to trick the floppy disk drive into accepting them, even then only 50% or so passed a full format.

John.

 

i did, and i know how long it takes to fully read/write from a 1.44mb floppy drive, hence i used the term "imagine", just to demonstrate if its 3000+ 1.44mb memory stick at today's speed we'd be spending more time swapping stuff than it actually working its way up the installation

IIRC it takes about half a minute for such task when its warmed up

 

Between the Windows 7 Whopper, the Mega Mac, and a whole host of other fast food that makes American supersized meals look tame in comparison, I'm always amazed at how the Japanese manage to stay so thin and healthy