{"id":2501,"date":"2026-10-01T18:33:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.etsii.urjc.es\/museo\/?page_id=2501"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:17:00","slug":"display-case-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.etsii.urjc.es\/museo\/en\/exhibition\/display-case-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Display case 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also have several books and CD-ROMs related to the Microsoft Office suite<\/em>, 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<\/em> (the orange book on the right), which unsuccessfully attempted to replace Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 \u200b\u200bsuch 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2033 floppy disk as a complement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/em> computers, as well as several on Unix and Linux, including an Ubuntu installation CD-ROM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below, we list the detailed contents of each shelf in this display case:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Book “LAN TIMES Guide to SQL” (James R. Groff and Paul N. Weinberg)
* Book “Advanced Programming dBASE III Plus” (Ram\u00f3n M. Chorda and Cristina Mainar)
* Book “dBASE III Plus” (Juli\u00e1n Mart\u00ednez 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 \u2013 Visual Basic for Applications \u2013 Excel \u2013 Access \u2013 Word \u2013 PowerPoint” (Jordi Cuesta)
* Book “Access 2010 Easy and Fast \u2013 Practical Introductory Course” (Santiago Traver\u00eda and Luis Navarro)
* Book “HTML Dynamic, ASP and JavaScript through examples\u00bb (Jes\u00fas Bobadilla Sancho, Alejandro Alcocer Jarabo, Santiago Alonso Villaverde and Abraham Guti\u00e9rrez Rodr\u00edguez)
* Book \u00abThe First 15 Hours with WordPerfect 5.1\u00bb (M.\u00aa Teresa G\u00f3mez-Mascaraque)
* Book \u00abMicrosoft Works User Manual Version 2.0\u00bb
* Book \u00abDidactic Guide to the IBM Assistant Series Version 2.00 \u2013 IBM WisePak Package \u2013 Word Processor, Database, Reports, Statistical Graphics, Spreadsheet\u00bb (Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Arias Cabezas, Benjam\u00edn Dom\u00ednguez Matilla, Manuel Santiago Fern\u00e1ndez Prieto and Jes\u00fas Tim\u00f3n Hontiveros)
* Microsoft Encarta 98 \u200b\u200bEncyclopedia Box (Basic Edition)
* Book \u00abWord for Windows 2.0\u00bb (Jos\u00e9 Dom\u00ednguez Alconchel)
* Book \u00abWordPerfect 5.1\u00bb (Esteban Cueva and Antoine Saint-Bois)
* Book \u00abLotus 1-2-3 v.2.3 Spreadsheet and Charts\u00bb (Jorge Rodr\u00edguez Vega)
* Microsoft Office XP Professional Box
* Book \u00abMicrosoft Office FrontPage 2003\u00bb (Antonio Ben\u00edtez Corbacho and Mario Rubiales G\u00f3mez)
* Book \u00abMicrosoft Office Excel 2007\u00bb (Francisco Charte Ojeda)<\/td><\/tr>
* 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”<\/td><\/tr>
* Book “Programming with the PASCAL Language” (FJ Sanch\u00eds Llorca and A. Morales Lozano)
* Book “Programming in Fortran 77” (F\u00e9lix Garc\u00eda 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” (Tom\u00e1s Tej\u00f3n)
* Book “Basic for Children” (Sof\u00eda 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 Mart\u00ednez Garc\u00eda)
* Book “Java 2 Programming Course” (Francisco Javier Ceballos)
* Book “Advanced Visual Basic 6 Manual” (Mat\u00edas Bl\u00e1zquez Iglesias)
* Book “Project Management” Computer Scientists \u2013 A Practical Guide for Project Managers\u00bb (Pham Thu Quang and Jean-Jacques Gonin)
* Book \u00abSoftware Engineering \u2013 A Practitioner\u2019s Approach\u00bb (Roger S. Pressman)
* Book \u00abProgramming in C\/C++ Explore Programming Techniques in C and C++\u00bb (Chris H. Pappas and William H. Murray)
* Book \u00abBASIC Encyclopedia of Computing, Minicomputers and Personal Computers\u00bb (Volume 1)
* Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Box Set
* Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional Box Set
* Book \u00abHow to Program in Delphi 3.0\u00bb (Javier Ni\u00f1o and Ruth Mart\u00ednez)
* Borland Delphi 5 Standard Box Set
* Book Collection \u00abMicrosoft Visual C++ 6.0 Learning Edition\u00bb (Chuck Sphar and Beck Zaratian)<\/td><\/tr>
* Book “Introduction to the IBM-4361 System under VM\/SP” (M. Pilar Ballesteros Vadillo and Francisco Iv\u00e1\u00f1ez 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 Abell\u00f3)
* Book “Analysis and Programming Techniques for IBM\/PC (and compatibles) \u2013 DOS Operating System, BASIC, Application Analysis” (M.\u00aa Pilar Lasala Calleja, Alfredo Crist\u00f3bal Crist\u00f3bal and M.\u00aa Jes\u00fas Lape\u00f1a 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” (C\u00e9sar Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez and Ismael P\u00e9rez Crespo)
* Book “Red Hat Linux 8 Advanced Manual” (Jos\u00e9 Luis Gonz\u00e1lez S\u00e1nchez 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 \u00c1ngel G\u00f3mez-Mascaraque)
* Book “Microsoft MS-DOS (6.22) Concise User’s Guide”
* Book “Windows 3.1” (Juli\u00e1n Mart\u00ednez Valero and Pablo J. Garc\u00eda)
* Book “Windows 95” (Miguel Pardo Niebla)
* Book “Introduction to Windows 98”
* Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Brochure<\/td><\/tr>
* 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)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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