Tesseract

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The Tesseract (also known as the Tesseract Personal Computer), is a series of home computer systems manufactured and sold by Harrowing Software. The Tesseract computer is contained within a keyboard, similarly to older 8-bit computers. (It also comes with a mouse.) Tesseract computers are designed to be easy to set up and use. The Tesseract can be used for many of the fundamental PC tasks, including browsing the internet, playing online and offline games, running office software, and online instant messaging and electronic mail. The first model was announced in 1993 and released in 1994, in order to compete with the IBM PC compatible computers and Windows 3.1; and to provide a computer that could rival the capabilities of other new machines, while retaining the form factor and ease of use of older 8-bit home computers.

Software

The Tesseract runs Tesseract OS, a desktop operating system designed similarly to Windows 3.1. It comes with an internet browser, basic office suite, multimedia software, games, internet communications software (e-mail, IM), and more desktop utilities (calculator, text editor, clock, file manager, etc). Tesseract OS is designed to be easy to use. It does not contain a command line interface, as the entire OS is accessible and usable from the graphical interface.

The desktop has icons, which are shortcuts to categories of applications (internet, games, utilities, etc) and shortcuts to the user's personal data folders. The desktop also has shortcuts to connected drives, like the Tesseract's hard drive(s) or CD-ROMs, or floppy disks.