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Hey look, someone 3D printed a whole bunch of save icons.

bruh

Disk 1 of 3711

"fuck"

Day 1: crunch crunch crunch crunch... Day 83: crunch crunch crunch crunch...
- Bzzzt: error. (R)etry/(A)bort/(F)ail/(J)ust die?
Disk 3710 is missing

A normal job in Japan:

I know people who would love a job like that and I hate them. Hate them so fucking much.

This would be soul crushing to me even drunk and stoned.
Most average box in a Japanese gov office

Does anyone remember the game Syndicate? When it came out, I didn't have a CD-ROM drive yet. But I saw there was a floppy version I could install, so I got that.

It was on 19 floppies.

Longest, most painful install ever. Great game though.

Some Microsoft Office installations were 40+ diskettes. Thankfully, this kind of nonsense was quickly replaced by CD-ROMs.

I recall buying a massive box for C++ at a computer show in the 90s, but I can't recall if it came with dozens of discs and/or whether it came with a massive printed reference book 😂
If the image is real, there are 3711 disks for this install.
Yes!!! Loved that game, was one of my favourites. Look up Satellite Reign by 5 Lives Studios, some of the original creators built a modern retake ("spiritual successor" in their words) because they loathed the fuckup created by EA.
- Oh nice, I'll look into it. Reminds me of Bryan Fargo making Wasteland 2 because he didn't like Fallout being turned into a first person game after Fallout 1 and 2 essentially being a remake and a sequel to Wasteland (Fallout 1 even had the promotional line "Remember Wasteland?")
  
  I preferred Wasteland style turn-based team RPG to the later Fallout games, so I'm glad he did.
I think about that game often. I got to have the old 386 up in my room after my Dad upgraded, and I somehow got hold of that game for free, used to play it after school when I was 12-14. I'm pretty sure that machine didn't have CD drive... Could be I'm mixing up a few different memories...
- I need to get an emulator and play it now.
I remember. That game was awesome.

I don't even want to imagine how long the first update would take on that 56K Flex modem...

Way faster than the the old 14.4. I remember when the 28.8 came out and I plunked that $200 down on the counter as fast as I could get it out of my pocket.
- I came in at 28.8 and recall stressing about which 56K modem to buy. I even took mine back and exchanged it for the other protocal as I wanted to make sure I had the right one for the next few years... What a pipe dream that was as it was changing so quickly then.
  
  It's funny how now it seems like things can last a few years now. My daily driver laptop is approaching 10 years old now.
- You never experienced the joy of a 1200? You could literally watch the cursor draw the screen.
- I had a 28.8 that was really good. When the 56k came out, I got one but was disappointed in its performance compared to the old 28.8. When the 56k v92 came out it was much better. Sadly at that point I was getting DSL so that 56k v92 was a POS and I was a LPB and never looked back

Now we gotta do this with Windows 11.

You better have at least 4x as many floppys at your disposal.

What do you think they'd do at an airport if you tried to check these in? Just how elastic is our Constitution?

Well, first you'd have to explain to the TSA guard why you have so many "save-file buttons," and after you crumble to dust you can easily drift away to catch your flight

I remember using win 3.11 and my dad would tell me to close windows I am not using so the machine does not grind to a halt. Good times. Windows could to nothing back then. Minesweeper maybe.

Before Win95/NT, Windows was basically just a skin on top of DOS, and DOS had never been designed with multitasking in mind. That meant that (with some exceptions, like 8-bit DOS programs running in virtual 8086 mode on a 386) for multiple programs to play nice with each other within the GUI, they had to "cooperatively multitask," that is, they had to be programmed to share a common memory address space, and to yield back control of the processor to Windows periodically, so that the other open programs could get some execution cycles in before they had to yield in turn. As you can imagine, this didn't work particularly well in practice, with software commonly forgetting to yield back to the task scheduler and pooping all over shared memory on a regular basis. Windows 95 was a quantum leap forward, with preemptive multitasking and independent address space for each running process.

Is this a real thing

It absolutely is not real, or at least it's not a real Microsoft product. 8.1 was never released on floppy.

It's possible that this is a bootleg release targeting an emerging market somewhere. You can use the Windows DISM tool to split the Windows image file (WIM) into split files. Just have the first disk format the target drive, set up a temp folder, run a process that'll wait for each disk to be inserted and copy over the split file when it is, then finally start the installation command when all have been copied over.

...or it's just a funny image.
I don't think it is. Booting from a floppy disk is not a thing in Windows 8.1 and installing from that many disks would take days.
- You could absolutely still boot to a floppy... There's still zero chance that this was actually produced.
- Legacy system operations are used to slow processes. So I don't think it would matter that it would take days.
  
  I agree; I don't think it's real. What system is too delicate to install an optical drive and yet you still have the need to install a "new" OS? This kinda assumes that any system that could run Windows 8 can handle an optical drive. I'm kinda hoping to be schooled in some corner case that would warrant this.