Man-Machine Retro software screenshots

[Second Summer]

Thought we should have a thread to share screenshots of retro software, i.e. software from back-in-the-day.

I'll start with this which I've just found on Mastodon, shared by @nixcraft@mastodon.social:



Anyone else here remember sitting around watching this utility "defrag" their hard drive? It was quite amazing, I can tell you.

 

[Lou]

classic mac trash can animation - Google Search

www.google.com

 

[Second Summer]

classic mac trash can animation - Google Search

www.google.com

Hmmm, that link doesn't seem to work for me.

 

[Emma JC]

I used to love watching the defrag... it was very satisfying.

Emma JC
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[Graeme M]

Before Windows there was... MS-DOS Shell!

 

[Second Summer]

Before Windows there was... MS-DOS Shell!

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Ah, I loved that. Especially how the mouse pointer seemed to move pixel by pixel, even though it also seemed like it was in text mode.