1981- Spotlight The Desktop Manager v1.1 by Software Arts - Sealed (1/2025)

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VintageComputer.Gallery

Name/Title

1981- Spotlight The Desktop Manager v1.1 by Software Arts - Sealed (1/2025)

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VisiCorp

Description

Spotlight was a desktop manager software developed by Software Arts, the same company behind the famous VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Released in the early 1980s, Spotlight was designed for the IBM PC and aimed to enhance user productivity by providing a graphical interface to manage files and applications more efficiently. Spotlight allowed users to organize their desktop environment, making it easier to access and manage various tasks and documents. It featured a user-friendly interface with icons and menus, which was quite innovative for its time, considering that most software at the time relied heavily on text-based interfaces. Although Spotlight didn’t achieve the same level of fame as VisiCalc, it was part of the early wave of software that contributed to the development of more intuitive and user-friendly computing environments.

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EBay

Date

Jan 6, 2025