GEM 1st Word Plus (1988) 2 Word Processor DOS

Gem 1st Word Plus is a word processor sold by Digital Research alongside their GEM operating environment. It supports text formatting, embedded images, multiple windows, mail merge, and includes a spell checker.

• 2.00

GEM Draw (1985) 4 Graphics DOS

GEM Draw, from Digital Research, is an easy to use Vector based drawing program for the GEM Desktop. It features the ability to open two drawing windows and drag objects between different drawings.

• 1.x
• Plus 2.x

GEM Write (1985) 4 Word Processor DOS

GEM Write, from Digital Research, is a simple document editor. It supports embedded images as well as bold, italic, and underline fonts, but only monospaced. It requires GEM Desktop

• 1.0

GeoWorks Writer (1991) 2 Word Processor Publishing DOS

After the release of GeoWorks Pro, GeoWorks released stripped down versions that only included specific application. This included GeoWorks Desktop, GeoWorks Designer, and GeoWorks Writer.

• 1991

Get Organized (1984) 2 Word Processor Communications PIM DOS

Get Organized is a bare-bones integrated tool that includes a word processor, address book, index card file, notepad, calculator, calendar, and simplistic telecommunications. It was targeted at high end home users and low end business users.

• 1.x

Graftool (1990) 0 Graphics Mathematics DOS

Graftool is a scientific graphing program and presentation tool. It supports 1-variable histograms, parametric and polar plots, scatter and vector plots, 3d-chart surfaces, shadowed contour plots, trajectories, 2-variable histograms, 3d-scatter, vector and stratification charts.

• 3.x

Graphics Master (1987) 0 Graphics DOS

Graphics Master, from Interplay Productions, is a low-end drawing program that supports the C64 and IBM PC with CGA. the IBM PC version on the second.

• 1

Graphwriter (1984) 0 Graphics DOS

Graphwriter is a business presentation and graphing package geared towards the production of 35mm slides. Supports Polaroid Corp.'s Palette 35mm slide producer and a wide variety of printers and plotters. For its time it was considered a large program, and targeted primarily towards corporate users. It also features the ability to create Gantt, organization, and bubble charts. In 1986 it was acquired by Lotus Development Corp along with Freelance.

• 4.x

GrayTouch (1991) 0 Graphics DOS

Logitech GrayTouch is a DOS based imaged editor provided for use with Logitech ScanMan hand scanners. Supports a wide variety of EGA, VGA, and SVGA chipsets.

• 1.x

Harvard Graphics (1986) 19 Graphics DOS

Harvard Graphics, from Software Publishing Corporation and initially called Harvard Presentation Graphics, is a graphing/plotting/presentation creation application for DOS. It was extremely popular in the late 1980s. At release, it competed against many graphing products such as PFS:Graph (AKA IBM Graphing Assistant ), Microsoft Chart, ChartMaster, and Cricket Graph, just to name a small few. A Windows port was released in 1991, but it lost out to Microsoft Powerpoint.

• A.00
• A.01
• 2.x
• 3.x

Hello Charlie (1984) 1 Word Processor Spreadsheet Graphics Database DOS

Hello Charlie is a suite of home-oriented rudimentary office products for the IBM PC. It includes a spreadsheet, database, word processor, drawing program, and a typing tutor. It was released in 1984 by Orion Software, an Alabama company better known for its early IBM PC games.

• 1984

Home-Office Writer (1987) 4 Word Processor DOS

From Real Software: "Home-Office Writer is a word processor with the right balance of professional business features and easy to use design."

• 1987

HomeWord (1983) 2 Word Processor DOS

HomeWord, from Seierra On-Line, is a friendly simplified word processor targeted at home users. It was originally released for the Apple II and ported to the IBM PC, C64, and Atari. It competed with other simplified home-oriented word processors such as BankStreet Writer. It was followed up by HomeWord Plus and HomeWord II

• 1.00 (IBM)
• II

IBM Assistant Series Quick Looks (1985) 1 Word Processor Spreadsheet Presentations Database DOS

This is a set of trial applications from the IBM Assistant Series. It includes Writing Assistant, Filing Assistant, Graphing Assistant, and Planning Assistant. They are limited so they can not print or save.

• 1.00

IBM Crypto-mania (1984) 0 DOS

Crypto-mania is an entertainment program that one can use to create or solve cryptograms - a set or words or sentences where letters are randomly swapped for another. Entertainment Series.

• 1.00

IBM DisplayWrite Assistant (1987) 3 Word Processor DOS

IBM DisplayWrite Assistant is a higher end word processor that has a user interface similar to IBM Writing Assistant, but has advanced features from IBM DisplayWrite. It can exchange information between other IBM Assistant series programs as well as DisplayWrite and IBM's mini/mainframe products. This was intended to bridge the gap with their entry level "Assistant" product line. Like DisplayWrite, it supported only a tiny handful of IBM printers.

• 1.x

IBM Drawing Assistant (1985) 0 Graphics DOS

IBM Drawing Assistant is an easy to use drawing program that resembles Apple MacPaint.

• 1.00

IBM E Editor (1987) 1 Word Processor DOS

The IBM "E" Editor is a text editor based on the IBM Personal Editor. Later versions were included in IBM PC-DOS. Version 3.x is sometimes referred to as "E3".

• 3.x

IBM Personal System-2 Model 30 Starter (1987) 0 DOS

This is a diagnostic and tutorial disk for the IBM PS/2 Model 30 computer.

• 1.00

IBM Primary Editor (1988) 0 Word Processor Graphics Education DOS

Primary Editor Plus is a student's toolkit for writing and language arts activities in Kindergarten through grade eight. The program is a flexible entry-level word processor appropriate for young students or anyone who is new to word processing and computers.

• Plus 1.00

IBM Professional Editor (1982) 2 Word Processor Editor DOS

Professional Editor is an early editor for the IBM PC. It makes extensive use of function keys, has user definable macros, and can work with files larger than available RAM. You WILL need to read the manual to use this!

• 1.00
• II

IBM Storyboard (1985) 4 Graphics DOS

IBM Storyboard is a presentation, charting, and animation program that was part of IBM's standard office products during the 1980s. First released in 1985, 1.00 only supports the IBM PC with CGA graphics. Later versions, including "Storyboard Plus" and "Storyboard Live", added EGA and VGA support and video capture. It competed against slideshow programs such as Show-Partner FX.

• 1.x
• Plus 1.x
• Live 1.0
• Live 2.0

IBM Writing Assistant (1984) 4 Word Processor DOS

IBM Writing Assistant is an early word processor sold by IBM with their IBM PC computers. It is basically a re-branded version of PFS:Write It features a built in spell checker, and the ability to include data and graphs from other IBM Assistant programs.

• 1.0x
• 2.0

IN:SCRIBE (1983) 1 Word Processor DOS

IN:SCRIBE is text editor tailored specifically for the Bytec Hyperion, a Canadian luggable that beat Compaq to the market, but is not quite 100% IBM PC compatible.

• 1.x

Instant Artist / Print Artist (1992) 19 Graphics Publishing Novelty DOS

Instant Artist, later renamed to Print Artist, is a greeting card and sign creation program that uses vectorized graphics. It was created by The Pixellite Group, the original authors of The Print Shop, and published in 1992 by Autodesk. It was later sold by Sierra On-line. It features a high quality set of generic reusable clip art. The clip art uses vector based technology that was also used in BannerMania.

• 1.0 (DOS)