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GEOS 2.0 for the Commodore 64, 1988. A full windowed desktop squeezed into 64 KB of RAM.
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GeoWorks Ensemble 2.0, 1993. The GEOS team's PC desktop, which ran on an 8088 XT that Windows 3.1 would not even install on.
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OpenWindows 3, 1991. Sun's OPEN LOOK desktop, the losing side of the Unix GUI wars against Motif.
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Ichitaro Ver.3, 1987. JustSystems' word processor for the NEC PC-98. Ichitaro is an old fashioned name for an eldest son.
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Acorn Arthur 1.2, 1987. The first desktop for the ARM powered Archimedes, renamed RISC OS one version later. Its icon bar came eight years before the Windows taskbar.
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iMac G3, 1998. Bondi Blue, no floppy drive, and the first Apple product to put an i in front of its name.
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CICnet Gopher Workshop binder, 1992. Gopher was named after the University of Minnesota mascot, and for a year or two it was more popular than the web.
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Spacewar! on the PDP-1, 1962. Written by Steve Russell and friends at MIT, and one of the first video games to spread from one computer to another.
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Doom, 1993. id released the first episode as shareware on a University of Wisconsin FTP server, which buckled under the load.
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Pravetz 82, 1982. Bulgaria's Apple II clone, built in the town of Pravets, the birthplace of party leader Todor Zhivkov.
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Sony Mavica MVC-FD90, 2000. It saved photos as JPEGs straight onto a 3.5 inch floppy disk that any PC could read.
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Engelbart NLS Keyset, 1968. Five keys pressed in chords to type letters, with the mouse in the other hand. It sits on his Augmenting Human Intellect report.
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Microsoft Bob beta, 1994. Codenamed Utopia. Rover the dog outlived Bob and turned up again as the search assistant in Windows XP.
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IBM System/360 Model 65 Console, 1965. The 360 was the first computer family where the same software ran on the smallest model and the largest.
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