i am a turkish windows box collector, AMA

[u/M1crosoftWindows]

Here's the list of what I got so far:

• Windows NT Server 4.0 (Sealed)
• Windows 95
• Windows 98 (Sealed)
• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows XP Home Edition SP2
• Windows XP Professional SP2 OEM License Kit
• Windows Small Business Server Edition 2003 (only CD case)
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Windows Vista Home Premium OEM
• Windows Vista Business Genuine Kit SP1
• Windows 7 Professional
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• Microsoft Office 2000 Standard
• Microsoft Office XP Standard
• Microsoft Office 2003 Teachers and Student Edition
• Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition
• Microsoft Office 2010 Professional
• Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student Edition

[u/CrasVox]

https://giphy.com/gifs/UWMqiZtcixB4MoWX20

[u/seanpmassey]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ge91zAgmwUqLMqiH2c

[u/Segel_le_vrai]

I have a Windows NT 5.0 CD, bought in a little shop in Hong Kong in 1997.

[u/FieldOfFox]

Yeah so I have a question

How and why

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/FieldOfFox]

I was always interested in collecting these for years, it all started two years ago when I got Office 2007 out of nowhere

[u/borg_6s]

Do you have the black Windows 7 ultimate box? That one was mint

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/borg_6s]

Unfortunately no, hopefully I get my hands on Windows 7 and Vista Ultimate Boxes

[u/s3kiz]

Hocam eline sağlık çok güzel bir koleksiyon ben de bunları toplamayı çok istiyorum. Ama genelde gördüğüm ilanlar genelde oem içerikler dergiyle birlikte verilen ürünler kutulu olarak çok temiz ilanlara denk gelemedim. Siz nasıl topladınız?

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/s3kiz]

Hocam teşekkür ederim, ben genellikle ikinci el uygulamalarına ve sitelerine çok yoğun bir şekilde baktım zaman zaman. İlk başladığımda Türkiye'de bu kutulara karşı ilgi olmadığını düşünmüştüm ama meğersem varmış o yüzden özellikle büyük kutular çabucak gidebiliyor. 10 dakika içerisinde gördüğüm bir Windows XP kutusu bile bi anda satılmıştı makul bir fiyata. Yani tavsiyem bu sitelere zamanınız varsa zaman zaman "Microsoft" veya "Windows" diye aratarak araştırmanız

[u/s3kiz → u/M1crosoftWindows]

teşekkür ederim hocam tavsiyeler için. koleksiyonunuza tekrardan bir maşallah diyor ve iyi günler diliyorum ❤️

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/s3kiz]

Hocam bahsetmeyi unuttum ama bitpazarlarında da olabiliyor, ben hiç görmedim ama duyduğum kadarıyla bazen çıkabiliyormuş belki onlara da göz atabilirsiniz

Tekrardan teşekkür ediyorum ve size de iyi günler diliyorum :)

[u/islandnstuff]

epey bir emek var helal olsun bunları bulmak kolay değil.

[u/9897969594938281]

Is it hard to walk around with all the ladies throwing themselves at you?

[u/Fun_Helicopter8980]

COOOOOL!!!!!!!! I have a collection of systems in a virtual machine. From Windows NT 3.51 to Windows 8.1 All that's left to collect is 98 and a longhorn.

[u/r_Yellow01 → u/Fun_Helicopter8980]

If are that curious, try expanding your collection beyond MS. Get OS/2, BeOS, pre-Red Hat Linux, and other quirks. You may need to save your image often, including boot sectors and partition tables but hey, hobby is sacrifice.

[u/exmsft]

I bought almost all of the top two rows at the company store at one time or another (other than 95, which predates my employment, and SBS 2003)… I feel so old.

[u/timmie1606]

I have the W7 Home Premium, but the green one. It's like keeping a trinket. The big hard plastic case is weird, and the holographic discs are cool.

[u/Fluffy-Macaron-8045]

Çok iyi bende de windows 98, vista ve 7 kutulu var kutusuz olarak 95,98 ve xp var

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/Fluffy-Macaron-8045]

Hocam çok iyi, umarım koleksiyonunuz ileride büyür.

[u/Fluffy-Macaron-8045 → u/M1crosoftWindows]

Sağolun hocam, şu anlık vintage apple ürünleri topluyorum :)

[u/Rogue_Element_2342]

Do you think that era of hard plastic cases during Vista and 7 was cool, or dumb?

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/Rogue_Element_2342]

I am mixed about it, I like their designs a lot especially Vista's where you make it slide but they kind of don't match together with the old big boxes if you have a collection.

[u/the_sudixp]

https://giphy.com/gifs/H4uE6w9G1uK4M

[u/Son_of_Macha]

None of those boxes are in Turkish, what are you talking about?

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/Son_of_Macha]

Please closely check Windows 98, Office XP, Office 2003 and Windows Vista on the picture.

Of course not all of them are in Turkish, there were not only Turkish copies but also English copies that were being sold in Turkey, they got the European sticker on top of them written "EU INTL" on it. With the exception of Windows XP Home Edition I bought all of them in Turkey,

[u/thehotshotpilot]

[u/Cute_Researcher_6578]

Do you like tennis?

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/Cute_Researcher_6578]

I was never interested on it to be honest

[u/LJBear99]

How much does it cost you on average per box?

[u/Successful-Biggy]

Is ur windows actived currently ?

[u/Pol_0001]

Are you bald

[u/recluseMeteor]

Which was the first Windows OS to be released in Turkish?

[u/sarhoshamiral → u/recluseMeteor]

Windows 3.1 is the earliest one I remember and it is also the version that got many other languages. Not sure if earlier versions were localized before.

Windows 95 was the first (and last) version I bought in a box. It was 14 floppy disks!

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/sarhoshamiral]

Yep, you are right! Windows 3.1 was the first one to be released in Turkish not only the OS but also the box! Windows 3.1 Turkish copies are quite rare to come across though

First Windows NT version to be released in Turkish is Windows 2000 though, Windows NT 4.0 as far as I know never had a Turkish release.

[u/exmsft → u/sarhoshamiral]

If Windows 1 or 2 were even localized beyond English (not sure they were), it was likely a handful of languages, likely all western languages. Any other languages were likely sponsored by subsidiaries in a given locale. With the lack of Unicode in Windows then, any non-western/bidi language would’ve been a massive chore, if possible at all. Windows NT and 2000 in particular on would change the game considerably in this space.

A fun related read from Raymond Chen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120726-00/?p=7043

[u/snipernote]

Windows 3.11 and windows 11 boxes ?

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/snipernote]

Windows 3.11 I don't think I can get, It's not quite easy to find here

I am not going to buy any Windows release box that is after Windows 7, so no Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and 11.

[u/snipernote → u/M1crosoftWindows]

Why so ?

[u/M1crosoftWindows → u/snipernote]

Not only I don't like them OS-wise (8.1 is okay) I don't like their box designs aswell. They're small and doesn't contain much content inside.

[u/snipernote → u/M1crosoftWindows]

Understandable