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Exclusive articles “25 years of spreadsheets,” article published in Polish edition of Chip magazine in October 2004 “Computer for the rest of us,” about twenty years of Macintosh, article published in Polish edition of PC World magine in November 2003 “Desk on the screen,” the history of Graphical User Interfaces, published in Polish edition of Chip magine in May 2003 Read Marcin Wichary’s several essays on computing history.

Exclusive posters posters with obsolete GUI features: Happy Mac, File Manager, MS-DOS window, etc. Macintosh. Twenty years later Atari Games: 150 classic coin-ops on one poster

Anniversaries Updated: 25th anniversary of computer spreadsheets (October 2004) Updated: 20th anniversary of Macintosh (January 2004)

Computer history in Poland Polish computerization Strange days, strange country – Poland, the end of the ’80s. Computers, perceived partly as products of magic and partly as “21st century miracles”, slowly appearing everywhere. The first takes on putting them in normal use and hit-and-miss commentary from newspapers. All in all, a fascinating lecture and return to the past for everyone, for whom computers are just everyday’s invisible background. “We're computerizing” column and interviews from “The game for tomorrow” series (from popular magazines Komputer and Bajtek). Polish computers Educational computer Elwro 800 Junior: “Junior and Mazovia”: review in Bajtek 5-6/1986 “Junior goes to school”: article from Bajtek 8/1987 “Elwro 800 Junior and JUNET network”: article from µklan 5/1988 “Junior and others”: article from Bajtek 9/1989 letters from readers of “Komputer” from issues 7/1988, 12/1988 i 2/1989 Other computers: “Termophylae of Polish computer science”: Konrad T. Lewandowski’s article about Polish XYZ and Mazovia computers “From EMAL to...” – interview with prof. Marczyński, creator of first Polish computers (1989) “The era of ODRA digital machines”: Eugeniusz Bilski’s memory about Electronic Plant ELWRO (1989) Other articles “In the face of choice”: Kuba Tatarkiewicz remembering the past and trying to predict the future in 1992 “From The Apparatus Group to Mathematical Machines Institute”: Leon Łukaszewicz writing about the beginnings of computer science in Poland (1989) “Prognosis for computer science for the next 16 years”, published in Informatyka magazine in 1984

Vintage advertisements You can view over two hundred old software and hardware advertisements.

Further reading Available is a list of recommended books. You might also want to visit guidebook, Graphical User Interface gallery: almost 2400 screenshots and over 500 icons from UI history.

Page added on 3rd February 2003, and updated on 29th September 2004. Copyright © 2002-2005 Marcin Wichary