Sure, I reckon you could get a few bucks for it - forty or fifty, tops. Old boxed versions of Windows could quite possibly be worth quite a bit more. Have you tried an eBay search already?

Yeah I've had a look on eBay and there are some listed for 50/60 - I've seen some boxed Windows 3.1 on sale for £100 plus but it's hard to know whether they will actually sell or whether it's just people being overly speculative.

I'm thinking about starting to collect them in the hope they will increase in value but don't want to waste loads of money and them not be worth anything in a few more years!

Mr_486 wrote:

Yeah I've had a look on eBay and there are some listed for 50/60 - I've seen some boxed Windows 3.1 on sale for £100 plus but it's hard to know whether they will actually sell or whether it's just people being overly speculative.

I'm thinking about starting to collect them in the hope they will increase in value but don't want to waste loads of money and them not be worth anything in a few more years!

Those prices doesn't reflect the real value, it's just seller trying to to squeeze alot of dough thinking just "because it's old it's worth a zillion"

boxed, DOS versions like v 3.30...Windows 2.x and earlier might be worth something

Hm I've not got anything that old unfortunately. I did see some Completed Sales on eBay of Win3.1 for £60 so it seems some people are willing to pay that kind of money for them. I guess I'll keep my eye out for older versions though and hope I get lucky 😀

Paid 50sek, roughly $7 for my sealed copy of MS-DOS 5 on Tradera.com six months ago

Mr_486 wrote:

Yeah I've had a look on eBay and there are some listed for 50/60 - I've seen some boxed Windows 3.1 on sale for £100 plus but it's hard to know whether they will actually sell or whether it's just people being overly speculative.

That's why you look at Completed Listings to see what actually sold.

Yeah I did look it's just that it's not really a bustling market so there isn't much history to go off.

I guess what I'm asking, more generally, is what kinds of software (o/s, games etc) should I be looking out for if I want to collect things that will be of most value as time progresses.

From practical standpoint, I think DOS 6.22 or DOS 7 should do fine. I think the concern is: are there old games that only work in earlier version of DOS? Note that I've never found one.