Retrotechnology Media - Typewritten Software
Retrotechnology Media
10 March 2024
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Operating Exhibits
1983 • 640 × 400 PNG (6 KB)
VisiCorp Visi On
Screen capture: Turbo XT Clone — Visi On 1.0
This screenshot has been line-doubled to correct its aspect ratio,<br>so it appears here as it does on the system monitor.
1984 • 1152 × 900 PNG (66 KB)
SunTools desktop
Screen capture: Sun 2/120 — SunOS 1.1
1984 • 1152 × 900 PNG (41 KB)
SunTools desktop
Screen capture: Sun 2/120 — SunOS 1.1
1985 • 512 × 256 PNG (6 KB)
HP Integral PC
Screen capture: HP Integral PC — HP-UX 5.0/RO, with additional<br>tools and applications running from attached 7946A.
1985 • 1152 × 900 PNG (29 KB)
SunTools desktop
Screen capture: Sun 2/50 — SunOS 2.0
1985 • 320 × 200 GIF (7 KB)
IBM 4-Color CGA Graphics
Screen capture: IBM PC video game ('Alleycat')
1985 • 640 × 350 PNG (5 KB)
GEM Desktop 1.2
Screen capture: GEM Desktop 1.2 in 16-color EGA mode.
This version of GEM for the IBM PC was the last to be<br>released before Apple prevailed against DRI in its<br>seminal "look and feel" lawsuit.
1985 • 640 × 350 PNG (8 KB)
GEM Draw 1.0
Screen capture: GEM Draw 1.0 in 16-color EGA mode, with sample drawing loaded.
Along with GEM Write and GEM Paint, GEM Draw was among the<br>first applications available at the premiere of GEM Desktop<br>on the IBM PC.
1987 • 640 × 512 PNG (8 KB)
Arthur 0.30
Screen capture: Acorn Archimedes A310 — Arthur 0.30 Desktop, with<br>sample desk accessories running.
The red window frame doesn't indicate the active window, but rather that<br>there is unsaved data in the Note-Pad desk accessory.
1987 • 640 × 512 PNG (8 KB)
Arthur 1.20
Screen capture: Acorn Archimedes A440 — Arthur 1.20 Desktop, with<br>sample desk accessories running.
Arthur 0.30 lasted barely more than three months before being replaced by<br>Arthur 1.20. The system is still very rudimentary, but if you squint, you can<br>see some maturity just beginning to happen.
1987 • 640 × 400 PNG (61 KB)
NewTek Digi-Paint
Screen capture: Amiga 2000 running NewTek Digi-Paint with sample image loaded.
Digi-Paint was one of the first paint programs to make use of the Amiga's<br>4096-color HAM display modes. This demo image included with the program was<br>probably digitized using NewTek's earlier product, Digi-View. On the surface<br>it seems a somewhat odd choice, as HAM provides no benefit to a grayscale image.
Digi-Paint also takes full advantage of the Amiga's ability to define multiple<br>logical screens, which may be displayed on the monitor simultaneously. The<br>individual screens are as follows, and have each been modified as described so the<br>composited image depicts how the program actually appears on the system monitor:
Canvas — 320 × 400 pixel, 4096 color HAM6.
- capture has been line-doubled in the horizontal dimension.
Menu — 640 × 200 pixel, 4 color.
- capture has been line-doubled in the vertical dimension.
Tool palette — 320 × 200 pixel, 4096 color HAM6.
- capture has been doubled in both dimensions.
1987 • 1025 × 864 PNG (20 KB)
VAX Workstation Software (VWS)
Screen capture: DEC VAXstation 2000 with 8-plane GPX graphics, running<br>DEC VWS 3.3 (UIS) under MicroVMS 4.6, with configuration menu, help, and VT200<br>emulator windows open.
In the early days of the VAX workstation, VWS (also known as UIS) was the<br>graphical interface available to VMS users. There is a VT200 emulator (with and<br>without support for ReGIS graphics), a Tektronix 4014 emulator, and not much<br>else besides. The default background on color displays is 50% gray (I fiddled<br>with it to make it purple).
1987 • 801 × 601 PNG (16 KB)
GEM – Xerox Ventura Publisher 1.1
Screen capture: Xerox Ventura Publisher 1.1 on Renaissance GRX<br>Rendition-I display adapter, with sample document loaded.
Ventura Publisher was one of a few early PC software<br>packages intended to demonstrate that the burgeoning<br>desktop publishing industry wasn't to be the exclusive<br>demesne of the Macintosh. It was a serious enough contender<br>to have inspired development and driven adoption of an early round<br>of first-generation high resolution display systems for the PC, of<br>which the Rendition was among the better-rounded.
Eventually, Ventura Publisher would be re-written to run on Microsoft<br>Windows, but it was originally written for DRI's GEM environment, as shown<br>here.
1987 • 1024 × 768 PNG (57 KB)
IRIS Multiple Exposure (mex)
Screen capture: SGI IRIS 3130 — GL2-W3.6 with sample mex tools running.
1987 • 1152 × 900 PNG (28 KB)
SunTools desktop
Screen capture: Sun 3/60 — SunOS 3.5
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