IBM Dictionary Dog (1984) 1 Education DOS

Dictionary Dog, part of the IBM Education Family, is an educational program that teaches children how to alphabetize and use a dictionary.

• 1.00

IBM PC Local Area Network Program (1985) 0 Communications Server DOS

The IBM PC Local Area Network Program (1.00 is just named "IBM PC Network Program") is an IBM rebadged version of Microsoft's MS-NET (later Lan Manager). It is a program that lets any workstation on a network share resources, such as drives or printers, with other workstations.

• 1.00
• 1.10
• 1.20
• 1.30

IBM Time Manager (1982) 0 PIM DOS

IBM Time Manager is a rudimentary scheduling application for the IBM PC. It lets you keep a calendar for an entire year, schedule items, make notes, set priority, and produce certain kinds of totals.

• 1.0

IBM Typing Tutor (1981) 0 Education DOS Other

IBM Typing Tutor is an educational program sold by IBM alongside their original IBM PC. The software itself was licensed from Microsoft, and is notable as being one of only two known commercial programs that were sold for the IBM PC on cassette tape. (The other being IBM PC Diagnostics )

• 1.00

Individual Training for Lotus 1-2-3 (1986) 0 Education DOS

Individual Training for Lotus 1-2-3 is an interactive computerized training lesson for Lotus 1-2-3 Release 1A and Release 2. Individual Software also produced a number of other training programs such as Professor DOS.

• 2.x

Individual Typing Instructor (1984) 0 Education DOS

Individual Typing Instructor contains a complete introduction to typing basics. It includes presentations on proper typing posture, correct hand and finder placement, and interactive lessons.

• 1.00

Jingle Disk (1986) 0 Novelty DOS

ThoughtWare's Jingle Disk was a stocking stuffer for the computer geek in 1986. It plays several pieces of music on the PC speaker as it animates several winter images. It can also print a simple greeting card to a dot matrix printer using these images. While there were similar shareware or freeware programs, this was a commercial program

• 1986

Keyboarding Pro (1998) 0 Education Windows

Keyboarding Pro is a program for Windows that teaches touch typing. It contains numerous lessons and some game activities.

• 1.0

Lotus Agenda (1988) 0 PIM DOS

Agenda is DOS based Personal Information Manager that features customizable categories, and many data retrieval features. It was criticized for not being easy to use and lacking features found in other PIMs. It was replaced by Lotus Organizer.

• 1.x
• 2.0

Lotus Organizer (1992) 1 PIM Windows

A personal information manager from Lotus for Windows. Organizer was a Windows-based replacement for the DOS-based Lotus Agenda. Lotus Organizer was the most popular PIM during the mid 1990s.

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• 2.x

MasterType Training Ground (1984) 2 Education DOS

MasterType Training Ground is a typing tutor game for the IBM PC.

• 1

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (1988) 0 Education DOS Windows

An interactive typing tutor for the IBM PC that uses a variety of entertaining learning styles.

• 1
• 4.x

MegaDittos (1994) 0 Novelty Windows

MegaDittos is a set of political screen savers that poke fun at Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Hillary.

• 1.x

Microsoft Dangerous Creatures (1994) 1 Reference Novelty Windows

Multimedia title from the Microsoft Home series about venomous and dangerous animals, such as spiders, snakes, fish, etc. from around the world. Runs on Windows 3.1 or later.

• 1.0

Microsoft Exchange (1996) 4 Chat PIM Server Windows

Exchange is a proprietary e-mail and groupware server software from Microsoft for Windows Server. The first version publicly sold was Exchange Server 4.0. The number 4.0 was used as it was a replacement for Microsoft Mail 3.x. At release, unlike other desktop/lan e-mail solutions it featured client/server communications rather than using file sharing, used a powerful messaging protocol, and stored all message and address book information in a database. It eventually evolved to include scheduling and many other functions. The Exchange Client (later Microsoft Outlook) supported rich text formatting, and the ability to create such things as e-mail forms.

• 4.0
• 5.5
• 2000

Microsoft Greetings (1997) 1 Publishing Novelty Windows

Microsoft Greetings is a greeting card maker for Microsoft Windows 9x/NT. It was made in conjunction with Hallmark.

• Workshop 2.0
• 99 (3.0)

Microsoft Learning DOS (1986) 2 Education DOS

Nothing is more frustrating than getting a new PC and not knowing how to use it. It's equally frustrating when inexperience with the finer points of DOS keeps you from being more productive. Microsoft Learning DOS is the complete DOS learning system - everything you need to start out right and to master DOS.

• 1.x
• 2.0

Microsoft Systems Management Server (1996) 3 Server Windows

Microsoft SMS Server is a server tool that aids management of large numbers of computers. inventory.

• 1.x

Official Guide to Netscape Navigator (1995) 0 Education Windows MacOS

The Official Guide to Netscape Navigator, from Personal Training Systems, is an interactive training tool for teaching new users the ins and outs of using Netscape Navigator to access information on the Internet.

• 1.x

Talking Icons (1994) 0 Novelty Windows

Talking Icons 2.0 is a utility from Aristo-Soft for Windows 3.1 that adds silly sounds and animated icons to the Windows environment. It also features a tool (Windows FX) that changes the windows border with multiple themes, additional screen savers, wallpaper, additional mouse cursors, an icon editor, and "Talk" ready versions of Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Clock.

• 2.0

WordPerfect Office (Groupware) (1990) 0 Utility Editor PIM DOS

WordPerfect Office, from WordPerfect Corp, is a groupware utility that includes a menu shell, text editor, calendar, calculator, notebook, and file manager. It is unrelated to the later Corel office suite by the same name. Earlier versions were known as WordPerfect Library.

• 3.0

Worldgroup Server (1995) 0 Server Unix

Worldgroup Server is a bulletin board system server.

• 1.01