Me and my friend where speaking about old stuff and OS that came on diskettes... Well we found out that an old Microsoft company standard is that if you don't have any CD and DVD rom you may have the product on floppy diskettes. Vista on diskettes is possible and they will send it to you for free if you own an original copy of Vista (shipping is something you'll have to pay sadly!) So yeh...
Oh wow okay so you mean we can have a free copy of Windows Vista on a floppy diskette? I wonder how many floppy diskettes would it take unless they have some portable version on them and then again we won't be able to get the full versions on it right? But anyway this sounds interesting somehow ^_^
Only if you own the original Vista you will get it on diskettes , doesn't need to be vista specific. And it's normal floppy diskettes, tons of them.
Well floppy diskettes are almost history now and see the main reason people don't use them anymore is because they are small in capacity which means more diskettes = more complications! Therefore, it isn't really that great and yeah most of the people don't even have floppy drives installed in their PC's!
I had the first Sony Digital Camera they ever made and the images were stored on floppys, it was a big camera.
Vista uses 15 GB I think a floppy is 1.44 MB if I'm not mistaking 15 x 1024 = 15360 15360/1.44 = 10666.67 so 10667 floppies (this is however the unpacked size of vista, no idea how much it is packed) 1 floppy is about 50 grams, so vista, unpacked, on floppies would weigh over halfl a ton
If oyu mean vista installed, it's more like 80GB+, on th dvd it will be far less. And if this does exist, then they wil send you the core backup files on a floppy. Not the whole damn os, thats a redicleous thing to think about lol