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What was this program? (Showed how computers work)

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First post, by Lylat1an

Posted on 2020-03-27, 15:53

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My family's first computer was a Tandy, I don't recall the model but it was IBM-compatible and ran DOS. (Probably a 1000-series)

I'm trying to find a program we had which explained how computers work with visuals.

If I remember right the CPU, RAM, and drive(s) were different colors and would blink when selected. I could be wrong though, this was almost 3 decades ago.

It may have also contained a slide puzzle game showing a sailboat when completed.

Reply 1 of 2, by Standard Def Steve

Posted on 2020-03-27, 16:06

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I had a shareware program called "What's In That Box?" that did something very similar. Don't remember it having a puzzle game though. It's very possible that the 10 year old me got bored and switched to Wing Commander before completing the "boring" edutainment software. 😜

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Reply 2 of 2, by Lylat1an

Posted on 2020-03-27, 16:35

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Standard Def Steve wrote on 2020-03-27, 16:06:

I had a shareware program called "What's In That Box?" that did something very similar. Don't remember it having a puzzle game though. It's very possible that the 10 year old me got bored and switched to Wing Commander before completing the "boring" edutainment software. 😜

It's very possible that the puzzle was a separate program, the details are fuzzy.

I found 'What's In That Box' on Archive.org, and it's not what I remember. Thanks though.

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