[digitalsankhara]

I don't remember the name of the MSDOS shareware vendor, but they had a monthly catalogue which was sent out by post.

Each item had a pretty good description and I'd spent hours reading through the catalogue trying to visualise what the software would do.

Then I'd fill in the order form, post it back with payment and wait a week or so for the floppies to arrive. That did not seem slow to me - it was my normal.

I remember the excitement of installing the software and learning via the README.TXT files.

[verve_rat]

I had a similar experience as a kid. I remember ordering a couple of disks from a catalogue that listed program sizes and trying to pack as many games into those floppies as possible.

[Daub]

Do read me texts still exist? I loved that tradition, but can't recall seeing one in commercial software in recent years.