Well, I should have Magic User Interface CD for Amiga 3.1 in somewhere. Didn’t find it right now.
This is the oldest I currently have pictures of.
Hey, that’s MY activation key!
I’m trying to get my 89 year old dad to set aside the tapes of the first games I programmed on our Commodore 64 in like 1983 when he moves this year. I really want them.
Early mud stuff. I’ll post it if he finds it.
If you do post them, let me know. I’ll spin up an emulator and give them a try!
I will! Just so you know, I was 12, so I cant vouch for the quality of writing or gameplay, lol.
Should have left “Win XP” out. We know FCKGW. ☺️
The fact I recognise that key.
(Also my husband agrees with me that looks eerily like my handwriting and is the kind of disk i used OP are you in Australia…)
Does it count that I am 20 and have spindles of blank old CD/DVD?
You have spindles of spindles? That counts, yes.
Fixed.
Even still have a copy of 98
I recently cleaned out some boxes of random stuff I had in one of my wardrobes and found several discs like this, some with Ubuntu 5-8.04, random drivers and other fun stuff. Huge nostalgia trip going through them. I also found this CD my dad gave me when I was 20 and had just started smoking weed:
(the title is in Swedish and means “a chill disc”)Sadly lost him in December last year, RIP dad. I normally don’t smoke anymore but I’m gonna get a small piece of hash and smoke it while playing this in memory of him.
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I can remember installing Windows 95 with floppy disks, that was slow. XP was great because you could finally do minor things and it not require a reboot.
I still have 46 disks of Office floating around somewhere
I memorized that key from pure usage. Good times.
Oh wow you just reminded me I did too at one point. Wild to think back on that part of my life, I’ve barely touched windows in over 10 years but man at one point so much of my brain was filled with windows related junk
I actually had a Windows 98 CD at one point. Copied/ pitated, of course. The keys that I had were kinda stolen from the IT department that I was working for, at the time.
Only kinda stolen. The company was required to have a ridiculous amount of OEM keys. There were only 200 people working at CR back then, that needed Windows 98 rather than Windows NT, and of course there were the 8 Linux/Unix guys that IT mostly ignored, except for their connection to the intranet.
IT could buy 100 keys, or 250 keys. There was no option to buy two groups of 100 keys back in 1998. So we had about 56 keys just laying around that a few of us in IT just kinda took. We also took a total of 300 Windows NT licences, but I kinda doubt that any of managed to even give away a license of WNT.
Original copies? WTF? I mean, I had this version too, but I never ever saw the originals my disks were a copy of.
Here in former Yugoslavia, we got one original copy that got distributed to (probably) the whole country. Old times were so fun.
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
Now I want to brag with my CPM3.0 floppies for the C128… But parents sold the computer when I wasn’t looking :(
:’(
That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.
Another commenter posted, you can just get it from Wikipedia
Its been blacklisted by Microsoft for 20 years
Fucking Microsoft! Always ruining my plans!
I think that’s the same key I had memorized when I worked for a sketchy PC repair place as a teen.
Typing CD keys was such a feeling when it was for a brand new game you can’t wait to play, pure despair if you mistyped something and it didn’t accept but then you corrected the error, biggest sense of relief of my childhood
My first typing was a game into C64 using machine code. Game magazines at that time dedicated a few pages with lines of hex numbers for games. After typing 4 pages you had a game.
Unfortunately, I‘ve got my data tape recorder two month later for xmas. And mom was nervous about keeping the power on for days. I entered those numbers quite some times. Load„*“,8,1
That’s some hardcore ‘cd key’ typing lol
The joy of typing binary from a magazine into a hex editor :) we did it as two people, one reading, one typing, but I believe we only ever completed one of the smaller listings.
I’ll leave this here – it was maddening, but so satisfying and magical to have a running program after seemingly endless typing: https://archive.org/details/1990-11-compute-magazine/page/0-34/mode/1up?view=theater
