I think Sim City was on floppy
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Both were, but for some you needed more than one case of floppy disks. It was a tragedy when they broke down after many uses.
it was the one good thing about CDs - except for scratches the data was practically bulleproof... not only was the data pressed into the aluminium foil it was protected by one of the earliest wide commercial applications of reed solomon forward error correction
i forget precisely it was maybe 2 or 3 3.5" 720kb floppy disks on the mac (circa 1991), iirc
there was loads of more time where the number of disks got ridiculous, 1995 the installer for red hat linux was 7