Very cool article. I must admit, I’m more than a little jealous. I was working on getting a sealed copy myself but I haven’t heard back from the person offering it and I think it fell through. I guess I just have to live vicariously through you.
It’s definitely fun. I have this love of boxed software that borders on obsessive. For me, it’s just the obvious care that went into it. The manuals, the supplemental information, and so on. It’s also fun to see what various teams thought about their customers’ use cases, what they thought people would struggle with, and so on.
I feel the same way. I really wish I had saved my boxes, manuals, and inserts from all of our old software and games (PC and console) from back in the day. We just never thought about that stuff as being worth preserving. It’s a real shame.
I played with OS/2 Warp 4 and have wondered the same.
Very cool article. I must admit, I’m more than a little jealous. I was working on getting a sealed copy myself but I haven’t heard back from the person offering it and I think it fell through. I guess I just have to live vicariously through you.
It’s definitely fun. I have this love of boxed software that borders on obsessive. For me, it’s just the obvious care that went into it. The manuals, the supplemental information, and so on. It’s also fun to see what various teams thought about their customers’ use cases, what they thought people would struggle with, and so on.
I feel the same way. I really wish I had saved my boxes, manuals, and inserts from all of our old software and games (PC and console) from back in the day. We just never thought about that stuff as being worth preserving. It’s a real shame.