Original boxes...

Bill Sudbrink wrote: As an individual: Depends on the space and the cost :) I quite like the original packaging when I have the room to store it - but at the same time I don't agree with the apparent trend of original packaging somehow doubling a machine's worth. It's the machine / docs / software itself that's the important bit, not whatever cardboard it came in. Personally I class packaging as ephemera, and low-down on the interest scale (I'd rather see period posters and other advertising info for the machine in question, for instance). With museum hat on: Seems more important to hang onto it in this case, as if we don't then there's no guarantee that a private individual will. (We were given a lovely boxed Enterprise 128 at the weekend, complete with masses of leaflets, magazine clippings, posters, branded bags, hats etc. Fantastic stuff!)