Re: XP on floppies...
Err... not quite. Win XP normally shipped on DVD, but you could order floppies from Microsoft (10 for a minimum install, IIRC) if you wanted. There used to be a page on Microsoft's site online where you could just download the floppy installs, but it's dead now. See https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-xp-sp1a-floppy-install-disks for pointers to the now dead sites.
I remember having so much fun installing XP from floppy once, and only once, a very long time ago.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
