This is a favorite display case for software enthusiasts. It contains items related to office software, databases, antivirus programs, programming languages, operating systems, and other software. There are also several PC video game boxes.
On the top shelf, we can see references to various office applications. To begin, in the back left corner, we see several books on databases: a couple on dBASE III Plus (the first database management system to become popular), another on Microsoft Access, and another on the SQL query language.
We also have several books and CD-ROMs related to the Microsoft Office suite, including the aforementioned Access book, as well as one specifically on Word, another on FrontPage, and others covering the rest of the applications in the suite, such as Excel, Visio, etc. As a competitor to the Word word processor, we have two books on WordPerfect. As a competitor to Excel spreadsheets, we have a book on Lotus 1-2-3. Similarly, we have a book on the IBM Assistant suite (the orange book on the right), which unsuccessfully attempted to replace Microsoft Office.
At the back on the right, we have a small corner dedicated to computer security with 3 examples of antivirus programs: Panda, Kaspersky and McAfee.
In the foreground, on the left, we also have a CD-ROM of Microsoft’s Encarta multimedia encyclopedia (1998), which was the most popular and widespread until the arrival of Wikipedia in 2001.
With the second shelf from the top, we want to pay homage to PC game designers, especially those from the golden age when games were released in eye-catching illustrated boxes. For example, on the left, we find the fifth graphic adventure in the “King’s Quest” series, created by developer Roberta Williams (1991). In the centre, at the back, we display the box for “Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis” (1992), the sequel to “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1990), which is available in our Museum’s collection but not on display. We can also see two flight simulators: “Falcon 4.0” (1998) and “Microsoft Flight Simulator” (1999). On the right, you can see the collector’s edition box for the “Dragon’s Lair” PC trilogy (2001), of which we also have a cassette version for Amstrad computers released in 1986 (not on display). Also visible on the right is the beautiful box for the game “World of Warcraft – Battle chest” (2008).
In the foreground of this shelf, we can highlight other games, such as “Assassin’s Creed II” (2009), belonging to one of Ubisoft’s most famous franchises. We also have a greatest hits collection from the now-defunct Novalogic, responsible for the “Comanche,” “F-22,” and “Armored Fist” series, among others. There’s also a PC version of the legendary “Prince of Persia” (2008) and a copy of “SimCity 3000” (1999), among other games.
The third shelf from the top houses various books and applications related to programming languages. In the back left corner, we find issue number 1 of the “BASIC Encyclopedia of Computing, Minicomputers, and Personal Computers” (1985), as well as several books on “classic” languages such as Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, Modula-2, and assembly, and more recent ones like Java. Next to the encyclopedia are two versions of the Microsoft Visual Studio development program (2005 and 2013). In the centre-right of the shelf are a book and a Delphi development environment, from 1997 and 1999, respectively.
In the right corner we find the collection of books on Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (1999), as well as a manual on professional programming in C (1989), which comes with a 5 1/4″ floppy disk as a complement.
To finish this shelf, we show a book on computer project management (Pham Thu Quang and Jean-Jacques Gonin, 1994) and another on software engineering (Roger S. Pressman, 1993).
The second shelf from the bottom is dedicated to operating systems. On the left, we see various books on CP/M, Gary Kildall’s operating system, another on VM/SP, designed for IBM mainframe computers, as well as several on Unix and Linux, including an Ubuntu installation CD-ROM.
On the right side, we display books on different versions of MS-DOS and Windows, including two boxes with the Windows Vista and Windows 7 installation CDs.
Finally, the bottom shelf contains additional objects related to various other applications, including statistical and mathematical software such as Maple, Statistica, and Matlab; geographic information systems (ArcGIS); computer-aided design (AutoCAD); web page design (Adobe Dreamweaver); graphic design (Autodesk 3DS Max and Adobe Illustrator); and image editing (Adobe Photoshop and CorelDRAW). Lastly, we present an English-Spanish dictionary and automatic translator (Spanish Assistant).
Below, we list the detailed contents of each shelf in this display case:
| * Book “LAN TIMES Guide to SQL” (James R. Groff and Paul N. Weinberg) * Book “Advanced Programming dBASE III Plus” (Ramón M. Chorda and Cristina Mainar) * Book “dBASE III Plus” (Julián Martínez Valero) * Book “Microsoft Office XP Version 2002” (Gini Courter, Annette Marquis, and Karla Browning) * User Manual for Nero Burning ROM 4.0 * Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Box * Microsoft Visio Professional 2010 Box * Panda Antivirus Titanium Box * Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 Box * McAfee Antivirus VirusScan Box * Book “Programming in Office 2000 – Visual Basic for Applications – Excel – Access – Word – PowerPoint” (Jordi Cuesta) * Book “Access 2010 Easy and Fast – Practical Introductory Course” (Santiago Travería and Luis Navarro) * Book “HTML Dynamic, ASP and JavaScript through examples» (Jesús Bobadilla Sancho, Alejandro Alcocer Jarabo, Santiago Alonso Villaverde and Abraham Gutiérrez Rodríguez) * Book «The First 15 Hours with WordPerfect 5.1» (M.ª Teresa Gómez-Mascaraque) * Book «Microsoft Works User Manual Version 2.0» * Book «Didactic Guide to the IBM Assistant Series Version 2.00 – IBM WisePak Package – Word Processor, Database, Reports, Statistical Graphics, Spreadsheet» (José María Arias Cabezas, Benjamín Domínguez Matilla, Manuel Santiago Fernández Prieto and Jesús Timón Hontiveros) * Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Box (Basic Edition) * Book «Word for Windows 2.0» (José Domínguez Alconchel) * Book «WordPerfect 5.1» (Esteban Cueva and Antoine Saint-Bois) * Book «Lotus 1-2-3 v.2.3 Spreadsheet and Charts» (Jorge Rodríguez Vega) * Microsoft Office XP Professional Box * Book «Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003» (Antonio Benítez Corbacho and Mario Rubiales Gómez) * Book «Microsoft Office Excel 2007» (Francisco Charte Ojeda) |
| * Video game “King’s Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!” * Video game “Sam & Max Hit the Road” * Video game “Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis” * Video game “Falcon 4.0” * Video game “Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000” * Video game “The Dragon’s Lair” trilogy chest * Video game “World of Warcraft – Battle Chest” * Video game “RBI Two Baseball” * Video game “Cruise for a Corpse” * Video game “Red Storm Rising” * Video game “Murder!” * Video game “Future Wars Time Travellers” * Video game “Best Games for Windows III” * Video game “Prince of Persia” * “Novalogic 2” hits pack * Video game “Assassin’s Creed II” * Video game “Rail Simulator” * Video game “SimCity 3000” |
| * Book “Programming with the PASCAL Language” (FJ Sanchís Llorca and A. Morales Lozano) * Book “Programming in Fortran 77” (Félix García Merayo) * Book “Introduction to Modula-2” (Jim Welsh and John Elder) * Book “Program Your Own Adventures on Your Computer” (Jenny Tyler and Les Howarth) * Book “How to Program in 80×86 Assembler” (Tomás Tejón) * Book “Basic for Children” (Sofía Watt and Miguel Mangada) * Book “Professional Programming in C” (Steve Schustack) * Book “Z80 Programming” (Rodnay Zaks) * Book “COBOL Programming with Structured Applications in Pseudocode” (Francisco Martínez García) * Book “Java 2 Programming Course” (Francisco Javier Ceballos) * Book “Advanced Visual Basic 6 Manual” (Matías Blázquez Iglesias) * Book “Project Management” Computer Scientists – A Practical Guide for Project Managers» (Pham Thu Quang and Jean-Jacques Gonin) * Book «Software Engineering – A Practitioner’s Approach» (Roger S. Pressman) * Book «Programming in C/C++ Explore Programming Techniques in C and C++» (Chris H. Pappas and William H. Murray) * Book «BASIC Encyclopedia of Computing, Minicomputers and Personal Computers» (Volume 1) * Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Box Set * Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional Box Set * Book «How to Program in Delphi 3.0» (Javier Niño and Ruth Martínez) * Borland Delphi 5 Standard Box Set * Book Collection «Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Learning Edition» (Chuck Sphar and Beck Zaratian) |
| * Book “Introduction to the IBM-4361 System under VM/SP” (M. Pilar Ballesteros Vadillo and Francisco Iváñez Ronda) * Book “Introduction to CP/M” (Stephen M. Murtha and Mitchell Waite) * Book “Basic Computer Library: CP/M Operating System (number 11)” (Antonio M. Ferrer Abelló) * Book “Analysis and Programming Techniques for IBM/PC (and compatibles) – DOS Operating System, BASIC, Application Analysis” (M.ª Pilar Lasala Calleja, Alfredo Cristóbal Cristóbal and M.ª Jesús Lapeña Marcos) * Bound book from the El Mundo newspaper collection “Windows 98: Computers? Don’t Get Left Behind * Windows Vista Ultimate Operating System Box * Windows 7 Ultimate Operating System Box * Book “UNIX System V. Version 4. Reference Manual” (Stephen Coffin) * Book “Linux” (César Martín Pérez and Ismael Pérez Crespo) * Book “Red Hat Linux 8 Advanced Manual” (José Luis González Sánchez and Alfonso Gazo Cervero) * Book “The Secrets of Linux” (Naba Barbakati) * Cardboard sleeve for the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Operating System CD * Book “MS-DOS 6.2” (Miguel Ángel Gómez-Mascaraque) * Book “Microsoft MS-DOS (6.22) Concise User’s Guide” * Book “Windows 3.1” (Julián Martínez Valero and Pablo J. García) * Book “Windows 95” (Miguel Pardo Niebla) * Book “Introduction to Windows 98” * Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Brochure |
| * Maple 12 Program * Allfusion Program * ArcGIS 9 Program * AutoCAD 14 Program * Statistica 10.0 Program * MATLAB & Simulink R2008b Program * Dreamweaver DS4 Program * Autodesk 3DS MAX 9 Program * Spanish Assistant Program (English-Spanish translator) * Adobe Illustrator 5.5 Program * Adobe Photoshop 3.0 Program * CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite Academic Edition Program * “AutoCAD Magazine” (issue 6, November/December 1990) |