On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 10:55, Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@alchemistowl.org> wrote:
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> On 15 Oct 2019, at 06:27, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> > Clearly you weren't installing Interactive UNIX/386 from floppy, like
> > my first experience.  It was like pulling teeth.
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> Not to mention Xenix/286… the never ending 5”1/4 “HD” floppies… the ones which somehow were almost readable but not quite… then you started the install again and a different floppy failed.
>

I can remember having to reinstall Xenix on a Wang PC-002. The floppy disks had been kept in a folder next to a radiator, and I had to clean the floppy drive with compressed air before we could start. Surprisingly the reinstall went smoothly, but very slowly! The real issue was getting the serial terminal board working again!