>You must be almost as old as me if you remember paper manuals <g>.

Almost (I'm 58)

>Most of those products came with literally pounds of documentation.

That's not what I remember --- at least not in the very early days. Those of you who have this stuff can prove me wrong, but the manuals for the original killer apps (Lotus, WordStar, dBase II, Flight Simulator) were relatively small (smaller than the typical "Product Unleashed" books --> even conceeding the bloat in features in today's software)

>If I had kept all of them my house's foundation would probably be 6 inches lower. The OS/2 SDK (definitely dating myself there) took up about 8 feet of shelf space.

Sorry Mike, but if you date yourself with OS/2 you're a newbie. IIRC, that came out with the PS/2 and micro-channel machines. That's several generations of machines later than many(most???) of the people here started working with. I started with the PC (but I was working at Radio Shack when they came out with the Trash 80), and you had the XT and AT before you got to the PS2.

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>The best packaging I ever saw came with Jazz, Lotus's Mac version of 1-2-3. That was beautiful stuff. "Jazz -- Macintosh Boogies!" And then a little thing called Excel came along -- on the Mac first, I think -- and killed it dead. Now we're lucky to get anything more than a CD and a registration card.