Collection · since 1998

The Desktop

Applications for PCs and Macs, from the first spreadsheets to the last boxed software.

Word processors, accounting packages, design tools, kiosks and the countless small programs written for one office or one trade. Without them, the documents they made are often unreadable.

The archive keeps the applications themselves, so that old files can be opened in the software that made them.

Records online
677
Made between
1981–2012
Collecting since
1998
  • 285 bit-exact
  • 225 complete
  • 40 reconstructed
  • 96 partial
  • 31 fragmentary