Princess Luna knew what the package was the moment the servant brought it to her quarters. The box was long, but its rectangular cross section was only three and a half inches wide, exactly the size to snugly fit all the diskettes holding what will soon be her computer's operating system.

Already, there was a problem, the box was almost fifteen inches in length, despite the fact that each little disk was a fraction of an inch thick. She estimated over a hundred and ten disks were inside. Sighing, she pulled the first diskette out with her magic, FI Disk 01. She brought it to her computer.

Princess Luna's computer was a technological masterpiece, a "pizza box" form factor case holding its Socket 7 motherboard. Locked onto the board lay the legendary, ninety megahertz Pentium processor, and sixty four entire megabytes of memory. Connecting the glorious machine to her full SVGA monitor was the Phoenix, or as some (rather, most) dared call it, the Trio64V+. Luna carefully lifted the monitor, and the top of the case below, making sure once again that she had indeed replaced the hard disk storage with her new, two gigabyte model.

Indeed she had, and once she had reset the case, she floated the first diskette into the respective drive on the front of her machine, switching the power toggle as she readied herself at the keyboard. She smiled as a respectable beep called out from the case, but soon found a much less jovial expression as a disheartening message burned from the monitor to her eyes.

"Non-Bootable XDF Data Disk," it read. "Insert system disk and press any key."

She looked at the box of diskettes, and swiftly spread them out with her magic. Labeled separately from the FI disks, were the installation disks. She floated the Installation Disk 01 towards her, but stopped, and looked through the disks again. There was also an Installation Disk 00, and she guessed that would be the actual first disk.

She ejected the first FI disk, and replaced it with the installation disk. She pushed in the enter button, for some reason she chose to do so with her hoof rather than her magic, and for a second, all was still.

The monitor shone blue, the great, striped "EBM" of Equestria Business Machines taking top center. Below it, a confirmation that the OS/2 Warp version 4 installation had begun. Now it asked for the diskette to be removed from Drive A, and for Diskette 1 to be added.

Princess Luna did so, and the screen went black, but in a moment, she was greeted with a glorious picture. Previously, her screen had shown blue, but this was not just blue, there were shades and tints, surely half a dozen blues, and in front of all the blue, a curving text, casting a shadow over the blues, reminding her that she was indeed installing OS/2 WARP.

The screen cut to one shade of blue again, as it asked for the insertion of Diskette 2. It cut to black, with a grey line of text promising it was loading, then a new screen appeared, asking if she would want the easy or advanced installation.

Princess Luna snorted, the princess of the moon would not be bested by a puny machine, so she tapped the A key, and the screen advanced to "Preparing the Hard Disk." It wanted her again to choose, this time whether to accept a predefined installation, or specify her own partition. She chose the former, and the screen glowed grey, a green box announcing that she now had to restart from the first install disk.

Begrudgingly, Luna obliged, the computer beeping as it reset. It took at least a minute, which she was fairly certain was longer than the last time, until finally a familiar blue screen asked for the next install disk. The pretty image appeared again, yet somehow she felt less comfort in it the second time through. When she finally reached Disk 2 again, she frowned as it once more asked if she wanted to begin the easy or advanced installation.

'Does it not believe one of the Princesses of Equestria can handle simple technology?' wondered Luna, as she once again began the advanced installation. This time, though it still asked about disks, the computer now asked if she wanted to install OS/2 to the C Disk, which she agreed to. Finally, she was on Diskette 3. It worked silently, save for the groan of the diskette, then it asked what file system she wanted to use. Obviously, the High Performance File System would be the better choice.

Suddenly, something new happened, the computer was now copying files, and it even had a progress bar. Progress! She was making progress! As soon as it asked for the next diskette, she was ready. The top half of the screen displayed useful promises of Warp 4's features, and when she put in the fifth diskette, it even promised that she could dictate to the computer. She began to imagine writing her notes about the dreams she ventures to, just by speaking it allowed. A beep took her from her daydreams, as she had to put in Diskette 6. Now the computer talked of a "WarpCenter," where she could easily access applications, but she wouldn't need that if she can already just ask the computer to open- BEEP. The computer surprised Luna again, ready for the next diskette. Well, she mustn't keep it waiting.

The next screen spoke of pointers and cursors, and Luna realized there was something she had forgotten. Her new computer mouse was still in its box! She rushed to her closet, where somewhere inside was the mouse. The computer's beeper echoed throughout her chambers, and she could feel the impatience of the computer in the air (despite the fact that, in reality, the computer was quite patient, and its patience really did not intend to run out in any foreseeable time span). Finally, she had secured the mouse, and rushed back, tearing apart the box in her telekinetic field. As she quickly replaced the diskette, she realized that for the moment, the computer didn't even care for her mouse. Once she swapped to the next diskette, she realized she didn't know how to wait out the next, and decided to make a visit to the dream world.

Author's Note

I am almost certain the computer parts mentioned were never top of the line, but in my humble opinion, that just makes it funnier.