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Actually someone in our family installed GEOS and I couldn't help think it looked pretty advanced back in [Edit: 1986/87). I'd not done Windows 1 or 2, saw only Ads for Mac but never thought the C64 could run a graphical desktop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)

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I actually have GEOS but I never used it. I snapped up a few Commodores like two years ago and one really had a ton of stuff with it. Most interesting for me were the cartridges that could be used for freezing and reverse engineering but it also had GEOS and some kind of drawing tablet.

Watch out when you buy them though....the transformers are notoriously bad and could fry your SID chip pretty quickly! Always warm them up for a while and measure the lines before connecting it to the C64!

Was it a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KoalaPad?

Could be, haven't looked at it for a while and all my C=64 stuff is stashed in a place where I can't check it right now. But it definitely was a professional product.

Coming from a Beeb upbringing, I remember using the AMX Mouse and drawing packages on the BBC Master but my word was it slow. Quite amazing what they achieved with such little RAM though. I am in awe.

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