Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ on Nostr: so I need to install DOS, windows 3.1, Print Shop Deluxe III, and a printer driver ...
so I need to install DOS, windows 3.1, Print Shop Deluxe III, and a printer driver onto this Pentium II laptop.
Difficulty: The system has a dead CD-ROM drive. It does have a floppy drive, however... but that's a lot to move via floppy.
It's a win98-era laptop. It has USB, serial, parallel, PS/2, dual PCMCIA slots, floppy, DVD (broken), and a docking connector.
So now my challenge is: How do I get this software onto the machine without having to slowly write something like 10 floppy disks?
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2026-05-02 07:12:13 UTCEvent JSON
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