Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

(typewritten.org)

68 points | by adunk 2 hours ago

16 comments

  • inatreecrown2 0 minutes ago
    What a wonderful resource! HP VUE has interesting color choices and a nice "Dock"
  • jchw 37 minutes ago
    Probably also worth dropping this here in the off chance someone here will be part of today's lucky 10,000. http://toastytech.com/guis/

    At first glance it looks like this is much more breadth over depth. Quite an array of systems here.

  • darkwater 15 minutes ago
    Let's talk about the HP-9000 as depicted in http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/hpwindows-starbase-u...

    There is a `man` entry displayed in a terminal window there. The first Unix I've ever touched was HP-UX on an HP-9000 (server series, not the workstation one), and I have this memory that the underlined words you can see in that manpage as well were actually hyperlinks you can select and would bring you to the relevant section of the manpage that discussed that term. Am I fabricating that memory or is it real? I cannot find any info about it on the Internet.

    • yread 3 minutes ago
      I thought only `info` had hyperlinks
  • lynndotpy 50 minutes ago
    I love this kind of thing :) I finally have a second site to bookmark alongside this similar collection: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots
  • giamma 46 minutes ago
  • mananaysiempre 22 minutes ago
    Where did the author get a copy of pre-X-integration NeWS, I wonder (if indeed they did). I haven’t been able to locate one online after a lot of determined searching, but I also can’t bring myself to declare that there isn’t one because the name is so ungoogleable.
  • tomhow 1 hour ago
    Previously:

    Historical workstation desktop interface screenshots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36191713 - June 2023 (55 comments)

    Retrotechnology – PC desktop screenshots from 1983-2005 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15968745 - Dec 2017 (58 comments)

  • jeffreygoesto 30 minutes ago
  • yjftsjthsd-h 48 minutes ago
    It's funny how early some things do and don't look familiar. A decent chunk of unix-family OSs have changed some since then, but also kinda not. CDE 1.0 looks almost exactly like the latest version:)
  • andsoitis 1 hour ago
    Year of release for each would be extra awesome.
  • bsdooby 44 minutes ago
    Even the site with its NeXTStep style (love it).
  • Terr_ 49 minutes ago
    > DECWindows

    > /tmp/med_16.sixel

    ... Is that Sinfest? From before the author went weird? If so, then that's certainly a very different way of feeling old than I expected when clicking the link.

  • grebc 1 hour ago
    Amazing resource!
  • barrenko 48 minutes ago
    "We have learned nothing in 10,000 years."
    • grebc 36 minutes ago
      Probably more accurately 40-45 years.
    • WalterGR 37 minutes ago
      I don’t see any pie menus, so I’m leaning towards agreement...
      • mananaysiempre 25 minutes ago
        Patents are very good at stifling progress and learning, even bogus ones.
  • vladsiu 15 minutes ago
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