@michaelmicasso2

in the beginning there was 1.0

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QBasic, 1991. Shipped with MS-DOS 5 next to the Nibbles and Gorillas games, source code included.
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Famicom, 1983. Nintendo's red and white original. The controllers were hardwired, and the second one had a microphone instead of Start and Select.
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Aegis Sonix, 1987. An early Amiga software synth, built on Musicraft, which Aegis bought from Commodore.
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DEC PDP-8, 1965. The first commercially successful minicomputer, the machine that moved a computer out of its own room and onto a lab bench.
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Dreamcast VMU, 1998. A memory card with its own screen, D-pad and minigames, slotted into the controller so the screen peeked up at you.
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Visual Basic for MS-DOS, 1992. A text mode Visual Basic, the last stop in the line that began with QuickBASIC.
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Directory Opus, 1992. The Amiga's legendary file manager, written by Australian Jonathan Potter and open sourced in 2000.
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IBM Fixed Disk Organizer, 1983. Shipped for the PC XT's brand new hard disk, letting you build single key menus of DOS commands.
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Fairlight CMI Series IIx, 1982. The Australian workstation credited with coining the word sampling, with a light pen for drawing waveforms on the screen.
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Sony MZ-1, 1992. The first MiniDisc recorder, and portable only in the loosest sense.
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Macintosh System 6, 1991. The last mainstream release before System 7, running here from a pair of floppies.
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Una de mis primeras experiencias con programación fue abrir QBasic por esos años, cargar el Nibbles (una variante del juego Snake), aunque en versión solo ambar, y cambiar el código a ver qué hacía.
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QBasic, 1991. Shipped with MS-DOS 5 next to the Nibbles and Gorillas games, source code included.
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Quantel Paintbox, 1981. The broadcast graphics workstation behind a decade of TV idents and music videos, drawn with a pressure sensitive pen.
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BBC Ceefax, 2005. The football index on page 302. Ceefax went on air in 1974 and ran until 2012.
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Magnavox Odyssey, 1972. The first home video game console. It could only draw dots and a line, so plastic overlays taped to the TV supplied the graphics.
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Game & Watch Donkey Kong II, 1983. Gunpei Yokoi's cross shaped D-pad, made for these handhelds, went straight onto the Famicom controller.
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FastTracker 2, 1994. Made by two demoscene coders who later went on to found Starbreeze Studios.
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FM Towns Marty, 1993. Fujitsu's FM Towns computer squeezed into a console, and the first 32 bit games console, months ahead of the 3DO.
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Macromedia Flash 2, 1997. Born as FutureSplash Animator before Macromedia bought its makers.
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Honeywell Kitchen Computer, 1969. Offered in the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalogue for $10,600 to store recipes. You programmed it with binary switches, and none are known to have sold.
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