History of ABBYY Lingvo. Three-zero

I remember that we began our lingual excavations with a story about our Beaver . Today it is time to go deeper into 1991! And that's what we'll find there, friends. This is nothing more than ABBYY Lingvo 3.0 — the earliest version of Lingvo we could find. It is nice even to hold these diskettes in your hands. But will they be able to read them? Five-inch drives on the road today are not lying.

I had to sweat a lot before such a beast appeared on my desk:


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After the correct connection, the green light caught fire and the disk drive issued such a native “bzzzz!” :) But, alas, none of the diskettes could be read. However, no wonder - floppy disks are 20 years old.

But we have a user manual supplied with the program. According to it, you can make at least some idea of ​​Lingvo 3.0.





Some kind of screenshot, by which one can judge how the program window looked:



Lingvo 3.0 already had the ability to edit articles and create dictionaries. Moreover, there was even a word translation on the screen at the click of a mouse.



Well, "Required software and hardware" - just a song, no comment:



In the next series, "Lingvo Stories" will be even more interesting.
See you!

Vasily Lukyanov
The original of this post was posted on the ABBYY Lingvo team blog.